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Navajo talking picture
Title
Navajo talking picture [videorecording] / a film by Arlene Bowman ; produced and directed by Arlene Bowman ; Arlene Bowman Productions.
Published
New York : Women Make Movies, [2000?]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced in 1986.
Photographed and edited by Arlene Bowman and James Mulryan ; Navajo/English translations, Geraldine Keams.
In English and Navajo.
Summary
Documents the life of Arlene Bowman's grandmother on the Navajo Reservation in Lower Greasewood, Arizona; then documents the filming of her granddaughter, who does not know Navajo, as she tries to get help interpreting for another film that she'll be in along with her grandmother. Looks at the contrasting attitudes of her grandmother, living and thinking in traditional ways, to being filmed and granddaughter as the urbanized filmmaker who grew up speaking English among white people.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; Navajo
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2011
Credits
Photographed and edited by Arlene Bowman and James Mulryan ; Navajo/English translations, Geraldine Keams.
Cast
Arlene Bowman, Ann Ruth Biah.
System details note
DVD.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Biographical films.
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