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245 00 Nat Turner :|ba Troublesome Property.|h[Kanopy electronic
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500 Title from title frames.
518 Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2002.
520 Nat Turner's slave rebellion is a watershed event in
America's long and troubled history of slavery and racial
conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the
story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that
story has been continuously re-told during the years since
1831. It is a film about a critical moment in American
history and of the multiple ways in which that moment has
since been remembered. Nat Turner was a "troublesome
property" for his master and he has remained a
"troublesome property" for the historians, novelists,
dramatists, artists and many others who have struggled to
understand him. To emphasize the fictive component of
historical reconstruction, the film adopts an innovative
structure: interspersing documentary footage and
interviews with dramatizations of different versions of
the story, using a new actor to represent Nat Turner in
each version. As literary critic Henry Louis Gates
explains in the film, "There is no Nat Turner to recover;
you have to create the man and his voice." The filmmakers
chronicle an extraordinary history of attempts to create
and to recreate the man. Such a complex film required a
unique collaboration between MacArthur Genius Award
feature director Charles Burnett, acclaimed historian of
slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg and award-winning documentary
producer Frank Christopher. The earliest source, The
Confessions of Nat Turner, was not written by Nat Turner
but was assembled out of a series of jail cell interviews
by white Virginia lawyer Thomas R. Gray. The man portrayed
in this first telling of the Nat Turner story clearly saw
himself as a prophet, steeped in the traditions of
apocalyptic Christianity. However, this first confession
of Nat Turner raised the question of whether the slave
rebel was an inspired and brilliant religious leader in
search of freedom for his people, or a deluded fanatic
leading slaves to their doom. Viewers watch this same
controversy play itself out over and over again during
next 170 years of our nation's history. Historians Eugene
Genovese and Herbert Aptheker discuss how the figure of
Nat Turner was transformed as a metaphor whenever racial
tensions flared. Religious scholar Vincent Harding and
legal scholar Martha Minnow reflect on our nation's
attitudes towards violence. Alvin Poussaint and Ossie
Davis recall how Nat Turner became a hero in the Black
community. And when William Styron published his Pulitzer
Prize winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner - and
invented a sexually charged relationship between Turner
and a white teenaged girl he later killed - it unleashed
one of the most bitter intellectual race battles of the
1960s. Today, Nat Turner's slave rebellion continues to
raise new questions about the nature of terrorism and
other forms of violent resistance to oppression. "This
film about the historic figure Nat Turner is magnificent.
It is required viewing by all who are deeply concerned
about the nature of race relations in America." - Cornel
West, Princeton University "In light of current dread of
terrorist assaults, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
boldly takes on special meaning. A dramatic script,
brilliant acting, and a compelling approach presents a
tragic and morally ambivalent story of unfathomable horror
but also a desperate cry for freedom. In its presentation
of realism and myth, the film surpasses Ken Burns's
historical documentaries. Throughout, commentators, both
white and Black, furnish a broad range of perspectives
that require us to think deeply about American racial
violence and our moral and emotional reactions to it." -
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida "Brilliant
work. The myth and reality of this slave rebel are both
explored in an unblinking and historically informed way.
And most tellingly, this film unravels the enduring
dilemma of knowing and representing this most vexing
aspect of American history - revolutionary violence by
slaves seeking their own freedom. Finally, the elusive Nat
Turner story, and the multiple ways of representing it,
has been captured in this stunning and original film." -
David W. Blight, Yale University. "Both public and
academic library collections, alike, will be enhanced by
this film, which is highly recommended." - Educational
Media Reviews Online.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Turner, Nat, |d1800-1831.
650 0 Slave insurrections|xSouthampton Insurrection|y1831
|vHistory|zUnited States|zVirginia.
650 0 Literature |y19th Century|vHistory|zUnited States.
650 0 African Americans in literature|y19th Century|zUnited
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655 7 Documentary films.|2lcgft
700 1 Burnett, Charles |d1944-|efilm director.
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