Daughters of the Dust
The Making of an African American Woman's Film
The script, the sixteen-year struggle to make it, and a conversation with Bell Hooks.
A companion volume to Julie Dash’s 1991 film about a Gullah family on the eve of leaving the Sea Islands, the first feature by an African American woman to get a general US theatrical release. It collects the screenplay, production stills, an account of the sixteen years it took to make, and a long conversation between Dash and Bell Hooks.
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Marya E. Gates
this book includes the script, an enlightening dialogue between Dash and Bell Hooks, as well as the story behind the film
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