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  [Snapshots] [videorecording] : [glimpses of America in change]
  Smith, Anna Deavere.
  
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  Personal author:

  Smith, Anna Deavere.

  Title:

  [Snapshots] [videorecording] : [glimpses of America in change].

  Variant title:

  Title on cassette label: UniverCity 2000, Anna Deavere Smith

  Variant title:

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Publication info:

  2000.

  Physical descrip:

  1 videocassette (67 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

  General note:

  Title from UniverCity Web site.

  Performer:

  Lee Papa, introduction ; Anna Deavere Smith, presenter.

  Date/place captured:

  Recorded on Sept. 17, 2000 at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. during UniverCity 2000.

  Summary:

  Features the actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who presents images of America at the millennium. She has tape-recorded interviews with numerous Americans, ranging from Studs Terkel to an anonymous Hasidic Jewish woman, and she uses the text of these interviews to give dramatized, but verbatim, readings. She encourages listeners to step out of their splintered, narrow definitions of "me" based on race, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, sexuality and other factors and investigate the possibility of listening and discovering "us."

  Technical details:

  VHS.

  Subject:

  Cultural pluralism--United States.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Social life and customs--1971-

  Geographic term:

  United States--Social conditions--1980-

  Genre/Form:

  Plays and other drama.

  Genre/Form:

  Filmed performances.

  Genre/Form:

  Nonfiction films.

  Added author:

  Papa, Lee.

  Corporate author:

  Ball State University.

  Conference author:

  UniverCity (2000 : Muncie, Ind.)

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