| Title: | Looking for Langston | |
| Director 1: | Isaac Julien | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1988 | |
| length: | 45 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | b&w | |
| Genre: | drama-documentary | |
| Screenwriter: | Isaac Julien | |
| Cinematographer: | Nina Kellgren | |
| Editor: | Robert Hargreaves | |
| Producer: | Nadine Marsh-Edwards | |
| Production company: | Channel 4 | |
| Cast: | Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, John Wilson, Akim Mogaji | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 5 | |
| Synopsis: | In "Looking for Langston", the world of black artists and writers such as Langston Hughes, who formed the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, is recreated in a mythic dimension. Director Isaac Julien switches from archive footage to a stylized version of the jazz/blues inflected Harlem, exploring attitudes against black homosexuality as well as the self-imposed discretion induced by the political need for approval of the 'race'. | |
| Keyword 1: | homosexuality | |
| Keyword 2: | Harlem Renaissance | |
| Keyword 3: | Langston Hughes | |
| Keyword 4: | African American | |
| Keyword 5: | black | |
| Keyword 6: | literature | |
| Text Reference 1: | The Absent One: The Avant-Garde and the Black Imaginary in "Looking for Langston" | |
| Text Reference 2: | Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film | |
| Text Reference 3: | Black Nationhood and the Rest in the West: An Interview with Isaac Julien | |
| Text Reference 4: | Look Back and Talk Black: The Films of Isaac Julien | |
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