Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997
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Clarke, Shirley (American filmmaker, 1919-1997)
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Shirley Clarke
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Shirley Clarke
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Shirley Clarke (1925-1997), American independent filmmaker, was a modern dancer before switching to work in film and video.
She was probably best known for her films THE CONNECTION (1961), a study of drug addiction initially banned for obscenity in New York State, her oscar-winning 1962 documentary, ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD, and THE COOL WORLD (1963) on a juvenile gang in Harlem. In 1962 she and Jonas Mekas founded the Film-Makers Cooperative, a nonprofit company for the distribution of independent films. Clarke also taught film directing and editing at New York University, Columbia and the University of California at Los Angeles.
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African Americans
Dance
Documentary films
Drug addicts
Experimental films
Independent filmmakers
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Women in the motion picture industry
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Americans
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New York (State)--New York
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