The learning tree
DVD - 2021
Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers nostalgia with an incisive understanding of the harsh realities, hard-won lessons, and often wrenching moral choices that shape the road to self-determination of the young Black man at its center.
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- Genres
- Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Based on the novel by Gordon Parks.
Wide screen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Special features: New documentary on the making of the film; New conversation, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie; My father: Gordon Parks, a documentary made on the set of The learning tree; Diary of a Harlem family and The world of Piri Thomas; Unstoppable (2005): a documentary; trailer; How it feels to be black; excerpt from the director's 2005 book, A hungry heart: a memoir. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, wide screen; monaural.
- Production Credits
- Music, Gordon Parks ; photography, Burnett Guffey ; editor, Geroge R. Rhors.
- ISBN
- 9781681439013
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