#1082e: RIGGS, Marlon: Color Adjustment (1992)
RIGGS, Marlon (United States)
Director/Writer
Color Adjustment (1992)
Spine #1082e
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Director/Writer
Marlon Riggs was 35 when he directed Color Adjustment.
What does the American dream look like? Where do Black Americans fit into it? And what is television's role in shaping our views of racial progress and the idealized American family? Picking up where the groundbreaking Ethnic Notions left off, this pioneering work of media studies by Marlon Riggs presents a complicated, challenging, and nuanced view of evolving racial attitudes as reflected in popular programs such as Amos 'n' Andy, Julia, All in the Family, Good Times, Roots, and The Cosby Show. Narrated by Ruby Dee and featuring interviews with actors Diahann Carroll, Tim Reid, and Esther Rolle, African American historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., and producer Norman Lear, among others, Color Adjustment looks beyond the whitewashed, middle-class mythologies peddled by prime-time entertainment to track the ways in which Black Americans have been assimilated into a new but no less harmful racial narrative.
80 minutes
Color
Color
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021
The Extras
The Booklet
Forty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by film critic K. Austin Collins.
Commentary
None.
Four programs
Featuring filmmaker and editor Christiane Badgley: performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackson, and Bill T. Jones: filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans: poet Jericho Brown: film and media scholar Racquel Gates: and sociologist Herman Gray.
Excerpts
From a 1992 interview with director Riggs.
Brief introductions
By Riggs to Tongues United and Color Adjustment.
Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues (1981)
Riggs’s graduate thesis film.
Introduction
To Riggs from 2020 featuring filmmakers Vivian Kleiman and Shikeith, and Ashley Clark, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection.
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996)
A documentary by Karen Everett.
The Booklet
Forty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by film critic K. Austin Collins.
Commentary
None.
Four programs
Featuring filmmaker and editor Christiane Badgley: performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackson, and Bill T. Jones: filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans: poet Jericho Brown: film and media scholar Racquel Gates: and sociologist Herman Gray.
Excerpts
From a 1992 interview with director Riggs.
Brief introductions
By Riggs to Tongues United and Color Adjustment.
Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues (1981)
Riggs’s graduate thesis film.
Introduction
To Riggs from 2020 featuring filmmakers Vivian Kleiman and Shikeith, and Ashley Clark, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection.
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996)
A documentary by Karen Everett.
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