The pleasures of being out of step [DVD video] : notes on the life of Nat Hentoff

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Title:

Added Author:

Lewis, David L. (Journalist), film director.

Braugher, Andre, narrator.

Hentoff, Nat, interviewee.

Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

[New York] : First Run Features, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of 'alternative' journalism in America. This unique documentary wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally produced in 2013.

Special features: How Max came to Candid ; Critic to fan ; WWII ; The New Yorker.

Performers:

Featuring, Andre Braugher, Nat Hentoff.

Contents:

The Village voice -- The jazz gene -- Liner notes -- Civil liberties -- Club kid -- Down beat -- College lessons -- The most important job -- Bob Dylan -- Hippies, feminists, and queers -- Married life -- Greenwich Village -- Lenny Bruce -- Candid -- We insist! -- Moldy figs -- Malcolm X -- Best jazz magazine ever -- The eighties generation -- The sound of jazz -- Family history -- Abortion -- Mingus music -- End of an era -- Are you still here?

Technical Details:

DVD; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.

Personal Subject:

Hentoff, Nat.

Subject Term:

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Jazz -- History and criticism.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.