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Paris Is Burning
Jennie Livingston (dir.) · Off White Productions / Miramax · 1990
Why this source matters
The primary filmed record of late-1980s Harlem ball culture and the categories that produced voguing and femme performance; also, given long-running critiques of the filmmaker's outsider position and the participants' compensation, a necessary case study in dance-film ethics.
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