| Title: | Handsworth Songs | |
| Director 1: | John Akomfrah | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1986 | |
| length: | 59 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | documentary, experimental | |
| Screenwriter: | Black Audio Film Collective | |
| Cinematographer: | Sebastian Shah, Edward George, John Akomfrah, John Mathieson | |
| Editor: | Brand Thumim, Anna Liebschner, Hugh Williams | |
| Producer: | Lina Gopaul | |
| Production company: | Black Audio Film Collective | |
| Cast: | ||
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 47 | |
| Synopsis: | John Akomfrah's award-winning film essay on race and disorder in Britain looks at the historical, social and political background to racial unrest, and the reasons for the anger and disillusionment felt by many from the ethnic communities in Britain. Filmed in Handsworth (Birmingham) during and after the riots of 1985, it also uses newsreel footage and archival material, ranging from shots of colonial labour to images of Caribbean/Asian settlement. | |
| Keyword 1: | Asian | |
| Keyword 2: | West Indian | |
| Keyword 3: | London | |
| Keyword 4: | Handsworth | |
| Keyword 5: | riot | |
| Keyword 6: | disillusionment | |
| Keyword 7: | anger | |
| Keyword 8: | racial conflict | |
| Keyword 9: | black | |
| Keyword 10: | violence | |
| Keyword 11: | police | |
| Keyword 12: | stereotype | |
| Keyword 13: | racism | |
| Keyword 14: | 1980s | |
| Text Reference 1: | Handsworth Songs: Some Background Notes [and Interview] | |
| Text Reference 2: | Handsworth Songs | |
| Text Reference 3: | Song of Handsworth Praise | |
| Text Reference 4: | Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination: The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film in Britain | |
| Text Reference 5: | A Different Reality: An Account of Black People's Experiences and Their Grievances Before and After the Handsworth Rebellions of September 1985 | |
| Text Reference 6: | Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents 7) | |
| Text Reference 7: | Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation | |
| Text Reference 8: | Black Film in 80s Britain | |
| Text Reference 9: | Young, British and Black | |
| Text Reference 10: | Songs Doesn't Know the Score | |
| Text Reference 11: | Imaged Communities: Black British Film in the Eighties and Nineties | |
| Text Reference 12: | Song of Handsworth Praise | |
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