Several subjects in the documentary sued Jennie Livingston and lost. She handed them contracts, and none of them had lawyers to look at it before signing.
They were only paid them a few hundred dollars each. The film grossed millions.
This is discussed in Black Meme by Legacy Russell.
*** Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism ***Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our underst...
The 1991 documentary on New York City drag queen ball culture and their houses "Paris is Burning" is available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7r...
