| Title: | Young Soul Rebels | |
| Director 1: | Isaac Julien | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1991 | |
| length: | 105 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Isaac Julien, Paul Hallam | |
| Cinematographer: | Nina Kellgren | |
| Editor: | John Wilson | |
| Producer: | Nadine Marsh-Edwards, Ben Gibson, Colin MacCabe | |
| Production company: | BBC TV | |
| Cast: | Valentine Nonyel, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 31 | |
| Synopsis: | The film is set in the summer of 1977, the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee and a time when British blacks began to define a style and culture of their own. Two black DJs, Caz and Chris, broadcast the soul message across London via their pirate radio station and the local club. But one thing threatens to cast a shadow over their success - the murder of a black man in a nearby park. Isaac Julien intended to capture the 'Zeitgeist' of the late 1970s and has chronicled the production, together with Colin MacCabe, in the book "Diary of a Young Soul Rebel". The publication also includes the complete screenplay. The film is also available on TABB video no. 110. | |
| Keyword 1: | black | |
| Keyword 2: | white | |
| Keyword 3: | homosexuality | |
| Keyword 4: | music | |
| Keyword 5: | radio station | |
| Keyword 6: | London | |
| Keyword 7: | crime | |
| Keyword 8: | violence | |
| Keyword 9: | 1970s | |
| Keyword 10: | neo-fascism | |
| Keyword 11: | police | |
| Keyword 12: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Text Reference 1: | Diary of a Young Soul Rebel | |
| Text Reference 2: | Black Nationhood and the Rest in the West: An Interview with Isaac Julien | |
| Text Reference 3: | Imaged Communities: Black British Film in the Eighties and Nineties | |
| Text Reference 4: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 5: | States of Desire: An Interview with Isaac Julien | |
| Text Reference 6: | If you want to know about London ... It's a laundrette in Peckham: Black British Directors and Screenwriters Visualise the Metropolis | |
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