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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