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Toni Morrison: Black Matter(s)

2020 · 53 min

A thoughtful, quietly powerful documentary that illuminates a literary giant and the silenced histories she brought to light.

Directed by: Claire Laborey
Genres: Documentary, History
Starring: Toni Morrison

Overview: Toni Morrison (1931-2019), first black woman writer being awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature, was a critic, a book editor, a college professor, and a creative author of novels, poems and essays. She claimed the invention of a black writing and brought the light on what had kept silenced since the days of the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation: the black people history.

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Directed by: Claire Laborey
Genres: Documentary, History
Starring: Toni Morrison

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: race
identity
memory
justice
art
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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