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Color Adjustment

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Filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs surveys 40 years of blacks on television, parallel to the civil-rights movement.

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Van Gordon Sauter Variety This fascinating, provocative and quietly adversarial documentary examines the roles of blacks in prime time TV. Jan 10, 2018 Full Review Janet Maslin New York Times In a straightforward, informative manner, Mr. Riggs elicits opinions from the stars and producers of landmark shows in black television history, pausing occasionally for a well-chosen observation from James Baldwin's writings. May 20, 2003 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader It's hard to fault any of this as ideological and social analysis, and Riggs should be credited for his willingness to be just as critical of more recent shows as he is of I Spy, Julia, and Roots. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Rob Rector Film Threat Omissions aside, Color Adjustment provides enough footage and interviews that clearly show the early struggles for a voice in the medium. Rated: 8/10 Oct 13, 2020 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Nov 5, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member [img]http://www.skidmore.edu/campus/college_relations/intercom/020207/images/spike.jpg[/img][img]http://www.current.org/prog/prog114g.jpg[/img] The importance of their work goes completely overlooked. Even people who respect Spike Lee misunderstand his masterpiece [i]Bamboozled[/i], and not enough people know the work of Marlon Riggs! A good place to start with Riggs is right here with [i]Color Adjustment[/i]. Watching it alongside [i]Bamboozled[/i] (not literally side by side) should offer any viewer a completely satisfying experience. I have no idea why nobody likes [i]Bamboozled[/i]. It baffles me. I have seen both of these films a couple times. I just had to go back to them recently to write my own paper on the representations of black people in the media. I called it "From Postcards to Primetime." I also gave an 85-minute presentation on it. I showed clips from [i]The Birth of a Nation, Color Adjustment[/i] (the segment on "Amos 'n' Andy"), "I Spy," and [i]Bamboozled[/i] (the montage at the end INCLUDING the quote by James Baldwin). Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs surveys 40 years of blacks on television, parallel to the civil-rights movement.
Director
Marlon Riggs
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 28m