The Color Purple (1985)






This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...


Books with substantial mentioning of The Color Purple

Charles L. P. Silet (editor)
The Films of Steven Spielberg, Critical Essays
Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford, 2002

Al Clark (editor)
The Film Yearbook 1997
New York, 1987

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1986, A Survey of the Films of 1985
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986

Books with an entry on The Color Purple

S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Historical dictionary of African American cinema
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Plymouth, UK, 2007

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001