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Summaries. A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes. Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who appeared in ...
4 mag 2023 · A landmark of the New Queer Cinema genre, 1996's The Watermelon Woman is a smart and engaging work of fictionalized autobiography that follows a video store ...
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The Watermelon Woman is a landmark of the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, a time of queer formal experimentation with cinematic language. These mostly low-budget indie features were characterised by excess, irreverence and the revolutionary cynicism of the AIDS period. Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992) boldly claimed to “put the homo back in homicide”.
8 lug 2023 · Dunye's 1996 debut, The Watermelon Woman, is being added to the Criterion Collection. It's a long overdue honor for the filmmaker who shaped how Black LGBTQ+ stories are told.
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The Watermelon Woman < The Greatest Films of All Time Touching on the complexities of interracial queer relationships, and revealing much about Cheryl Dunye’s own motivations, The Watermelon Woman follows a filmmaker as she gradually uncovers the truth behind an actor whose story seems to resonate with her own life.
1996. Spielfilm. 90’. Fokus. »Schwarze Menschen, inbesondere schwarze Frauen, und noch genauer: queere, schwarze Frauen sind in den Archiven anonym geblieben, ungenannt und vom Zugang zu einer Kultur ausgeschlossen, in der Schmerz, aber auch Stärke liegt.«. – Christabel Samuel, The Watermelon Woman: A Retrospective Look at Black Issues.
The Watermelon Woman. Regia di Cheryl Dunye . Un film con Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Cheryl Clarke . Cast completo Genere Drammatico - USA , 1996 , durata 90 minuti. L'esordio nel lungometraggio di Cheryl Dunye, il primo film lesbico sulla comunita` afro-americana in versione restaurata.
