| Style Wars | |
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| Directed by | Tony Silver |
| Produced by | Tony Silver Henry Chalfant[1] |
| Starring | Various |
| Music by | Various |
Production company | Public Art Films[2] |
| Distributed by | PBS |
Release dates |
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Running time | 70 minutes 111 minutes director's cut |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary film on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent. The film was originally aired on the television network PBS and was subsequently shown in several film festivals to much acclaim, including the Vancouver Film Festival. It also won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.[3][4]
The documentary captures and includes many historical moments of hip hop culture during its earliest days in the 1970s onward towards the early 1980s. Many film elements from Style Wars, including outtakes, are now housed at the Academy Film Archive as part of the Tony Silver Collection.[5]
- ^ Style Wars (eVideo, 2011)-WorldCat.org
- ^ "AllMovie". Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- ^ Fox, Margalit (5 March 2008). "Tony Silver, 72, Documentary Director, Dies". New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- ^ "sundance.org". Archived from the original on 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- ^ "Tony Silver Collection". Academy Film Archive. Archived from the original on 2020-04-05. Retrieved 2020-04-10.