FILM + VIDEO

    FILM: Jump at the Sun

    FILM: Jump at the Sun

    Presented by Memphis Brooks Museum of Art at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    July 9, 2009

    Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars): 5 out of 5 stars rating
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    Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun intersperses insights from leading scholars and rare footage of the rural South, some of it shot by Zora herself, with re-enactments of a revealing 1943 radio interview. Hurston biographer, Cheryl Wall, traces Zora's unique artistic vision back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black incorporated town in the U.S. Zora Neale Hurston was a pioneering writer and anthropologist, and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon for Their Eyes Were Watching God. She established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial, but always fiercely original.


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        Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

        1934 Poplar Avenue
        Memphis, TN 38112

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        Tickets: $5 members, $7 non-members

        Info Phone: 901-544-6208

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        July 9, 2009

        Times:
        7:30 pm

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          5 out of 5 stars rating "loved that zora!"
          Review posted by: Sabrina from memphis TN, Jun 25, 2009

          this film was delicious. Kim Brockington is my favorite soap star and she's sooo good as Zora.

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          5 out of 5 stars rating "loved that zora!"
          Review posted by: Sabrina from memphis TN, Jun 25, 2009

          this film was delicious. Kim Brockington is my favorite soap star and she's sooo good as Zora.

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