Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), 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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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
- Recommendations
Status
Released
Release Date
Aug 16, 2008
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Documentary
User Score
80%
Original Title
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Production Companies
Kristy Andersen
Director
Sam Pollard
Description
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), 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.