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Bill Moyers Journal: Actor John Lithgow / Poetry Festival
Item# 40162
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-536-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-537-5
He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant, and a space alien. In this edition of the Journal, multifaceted actor and children's author John Lithgow joins Bill Moyers to...
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Harold Bloom: Critic in the Active Voice
Item# 39542
© 2009
60 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-066-0
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-067-7
From his assault on New Criticism to his salvos against the "school of resentment," literary scholar Harold Bloom has fused an eloquent defense of the western canon with insightful analysis and a rebe...
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Novel Reflections on the American Dream
Item# 37614
© 2007
116 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8028-5
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8029-2
This program draws on insightful commentary from literary scholars and authors to examine the characters, plots, and themes of seven American novels that deal with wealth, poverty, and the nature of s...
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Realism: The Artistic Form of the Truth
Item# 35428
© 2007
54 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-4937-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-6916-7
It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism-a widespread artistic movement, born i...
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The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages
Item# 36402
© 2006
75 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-6030-0
How do critics serve the public and the artistic community? Dr. Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer, director of the Department of Communication Studies at Widener University, spent several months traveling the...
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Dante: Visions of the Inferno
Item# 35994
© 2006
74 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5143-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5144-5
Drawing upon the insights of numerous international scholars-and illustrating crucial passages with stunning animation sequences-this program guides viewers through the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comed...
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Great Writers Poster Set
Item# 35110
© 2006
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Poster, Laminated ISBN: 978-1-4213-6014-0
Invite a group of literary giants into the classroom with this colorful ten-poster set. Each poster features an eye-catching portrait of the author, a list of his or her selected works, a brief career...
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Writers and Censorship
Item# 36032
© 2005
27 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-5359-3
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-5360-9
Authors Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin know about severe censorship firsthand. In this program, Suanne Kelman, of Ryerson University, opens the subject of censoring in literature using Huckleberry...
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Romanticism: Imagining Freedom
Item# 33782
© 2005
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-0175-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-1430-3
The rebellious artist, the attraction to the dark side, love and death, and the primacy of nature-all of these are themes that suffused the artistic and ideological revolution known as Romanticism. Th...
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Poetry and Its Relevance: An Experiment
Item# 35095
© 2004
13 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-2807-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-2808-9
What is poetry, and what place does it have in today's society? In an attempt to answer these questions, two filmmakers stood an old refrigerator on a busy San Francisco street corner, invited passers...
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