Film
Fieldwork Footage
1928Directed by Zora Neale Hurston
Where to watch
Stream
- Criterion Channel
- Released
- Runtime
- 3m
About Fieldwork Footage
- Documentary
Synopsis
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.
- Director
- Zora Neale Hurston
