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Bessie : Not Backing Down

Ku Klux Klan members show up at Bessie's (Queen Latifah) concert in North Carolina, but she wards them away and continues the show.

Not Backing Down

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ambient sound , beat, emotion, beat, event, bird's-eye view, close-up, crane shot, establishing shot, exterior, full shot, long shot, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, natural lighting, pan, performance, shallow focus, sound advance, sound effects, tilt, tracking shot

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Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Bisexual Woman:, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female

"Not Backing Down" in Bessie. Directed by Dee Rees, The Zanuck Company, 2015, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2920

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Alexana Dubois

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