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Full Record for Film No. 9


Title:Black Skin, White Mask
Director 1:Isaac Julien
Country:UK
Year:1996
length:50 mins
Colour/b-w:colour
Genre:documentary
Screenwriter:Isaac Julien, Mark Nash
Cinematographer:Nina Kellgren
Editor:Nick Thompson, Robert Hargreaves
Producer:Mark Nash
Production company:Normal Films for BBC/Arts Council of England
Cast:Colin Salmon
Location:TABB
TABB No.:9
Synopsis:Explores the life and work of the psychiatrist and author Frantz Fanon, who was born in Martinique, educated in France and who worked in Algeria. The film examines Fanon's theories of identity and race and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world. It combines re-enacted scenes, extracts from Fanon's writings and letters to his family.
Keyword 1:colonialism
Keyword 2:Frantz Fanon
Keyword 3:black
Keyword 4:racism
Keyword 5:biography
Keyword 6:independence
Keyword 7:freedom
Keyword 8:homosexuality
Keyword 9:West Indian
Keyword 10:cultural identity

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