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Style Wars is an early documentary on <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/hip hop culture">hip hop culture</a>, made by <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Tony Silver">Tony Silver</a> and <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Henry Chalfant">Henry Chalfant</a>, made in <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/New York City">New York City</a> in the early <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/1980s">1980s</a>. The film has an emphasis on <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/graffiti">graffiti</a>, although <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/breakdancing">breakdancing</a> and <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/rapping">rapping</a> are covered to a lesser extent. The film was originally aired on <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/PBS">PBS</a> television in <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/1983">1983</a>, and was subsequently shown in several <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/film festival">film festival</a>s to much acclaim, including the Vancouver Film Festival. Style Wars shows both the young artists struggling to express themselves through their art, and their points of view on the subject of graffiti, as well as the views of then New York City Mayor <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Ed Koch">Ed Koch</a>, one-armed graffiti writer <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Case">Case</a>/Kase 2, graffiti writer Skeme and his mother, graffiti "villain" Cap, now deceased graffiti writer Dondi, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Seen">Seen</a> and Shy 147, graffiti documentarian (and director of the film) Henry Chalfant, world renowned breakdancer <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Crazy Legs">Crazy Legs</a>, police officers, art critics, subway maintenance workers, as well as several "people on the street". Style Wars gives a remarkable view into the graffiti <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/subculture">subculture</a> (as well as urban New York City life in the 1980s), documents the embryonic stages of New York City Hip Hop, and shows that its members were a racially and ethnically diverse group of creative young artists.

The digitally remastered DVD edition also contains:

• 23 minutes of outtake footage * Commentary and interviews by Tony

Silver and Henry Chalfant

• Interviews with Style Wars editors Victor Kanefsky and Sam Pollard
• Art galleries by Blade, Cap, Cey, Crash, Crazy Legs, Daze, [[DJ Kay

Slay|Dez]], <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Dondi_%28Graffiti_Artist%29">Dondi</a>, Doze, Duro, Duster, Frosty Freeze, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/IZ the Wiz">IZ the Wiz</a>, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Case">Case</a>/Kase 2, Kel First, Ken Swift, Lee, Mare139, Min One, Noc 167, Paze (Erni), <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Lady Pink">Lady Pink</a>, Quik, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Rammellzee">Rammellzee</a>, Revolt, Sach, Seen TC5, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Seen">Seen UA</a>, [[Shy 147]], Skeme, Tracy 168, and <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Zephyr_%28graffiti_artist%29">Zephyr</a>

• Tributes to <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Dondi_%28Graffiti_Artist%29">Dondi</a> and <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Shy 147">Shy 147</a>
• Guest interviews with <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Blade">Blade</a>, Lee, Kel First, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Tracy 168">Tracy 168</a>, [[Fab

5 Freddy]], <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Goldie">Goldie</a>, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Guru (rapper)">Guru</a>, <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/DJ Red Alert">DJ Red Alert</a>, and photographer <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Martha Cooper">Martha Cooper</a>

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• <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Template:imdb title">Style Wars at IMDb</a>
• http://www.stylewars.com/ - Official site for Style Wars

[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5065949310221269915&q=style+wars Watch Style Wars] on <a class="autolink" href="/wiki/Google Video">Google Video</a>

• [http://www.formatmag.com/reviews/style-wars/ Style Wars Review @

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