English & Language Arts: American Literature T. S. Eliot
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Realism: The Artistic Form of the Truth 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 in the 19th century that rejected pretense, distortion, and sentimentality. Luminous images by Manet, Courbet, Millet, and Daumier—along with the unflinching writings of Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Strindberg, and Ibsen—are analyzed and compared with the work of Eakins, Bellows, Twain, London, Crane, and others. The contributions of early photographers and film- makers, as well as the first stirrings of feminism, are also examined. Interviews with art historians and literary scholars are included. (54 minutes) © 2007 Preview Clip Online C o
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Romanticism:
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Imagining Freedom This program vividly conveys how new ways of thinking and seeing reshaped the humanities in the
18th and 19th centuries. The writings of Hölderlin, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Byron, Wordsworth, and Keats, as well as the paintings of Turner and Goya and the music of Beethoven, are vibrantly presented as scholars discuss the characteristics of Romanticism and its impact on contemporary culture. (53 minutes) © 2005 Preview Clip Online C o
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Emily Dickinson Blending daguerreotypes, paintings, manuscripts, excerpts from letters, and readings from nearly a dozen of her poems, this program presents the biography of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most unique and influential poetic voices. (20 minutes) © 2004 Preview Clip Online C o $149.95 QGR32794 • DVD / VOD
The Scarlet Letter Pregnant as the result of an affair, Hester (Meg Foster) is punished publicly, while her lover (John Heard) suffers in private. This production was called “completely faithful [and] totally fascinating” by the Los Angeles Times. Distributed by PBS Distribution. (240 minutes) © 1979 Preview Clip Online C $199.95 QGR43633 • DVD / VOD
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance This program explores the secret places of the heart in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale of private truths and public appearances. A Discovery University Production. (48 minutes) © 1995 Preview Clip Online o $99.95 QGR32888 • DVD / VOD
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This richly resourced program provides a concise biography of T. S. Eliot, tracing the major events of his life and highlighting his many contributions to English literature. (19 minutes) © 2004 Preview Clip Online C o $149.95 QGR32796 • DVD / VOD
Emerson: The Ideal in America— Educator’s Edition
Through a detailed recounting of Emerson’s life, this program traces his vision of the ideal in America from its genesis to its flowering as Transcendentalism. (54 minutes + 49 minutes of bonus material on DVD only) © 2007 Preview Clip Online C o
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William Faulkner This program recounts Faulkner’s life and discusses his major novels, highlighting his affinity for the troubled American South of the early 20th century. Featured works include Soldier’s Pay, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (24 minutes) © 2006 Preview Clip Online C o
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Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life This episode of Biography, narrated by Mariel Hemingway, follows in the footsteps of the Nobel laureate, in search of the enormous man behind the enormous myth. Rare film clips, excerpts from letters and unpublished works, and comments of those who knew him shed light on his remarkable life. Among those interviewed for this definitive portrait are his sons Jack and Gregory, his best friend A. E. Hotchner, Gregorio Fuentes (the model for Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea), publisher Charles Scribner III, hunter Clara Spiegel, and matador John Fulton. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (90 minutes) © 1998 Preview Clip Online C $129.95 QGR42476 • DVD / VOD
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In Context: To Kill a Mockingbird In Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee’s model for Maycomb, To Kill a Mockingbird is celebrated as
a tribute to Southern life. This hard-edged program juxtaposes white and black experiences in the racially segregated South of the 1930s–1960s to deepen the understanding of the novel’s portrayal of racial tension and tolerated judicial bias. Interviews, archival footage, and photographs combine to illus- trate the realities of segregation, lynching, white supremacy, injustice in the courts, and the civil rights movement. Dramatic readings from the novel and a powerful rendering of a blues song about lynching provide additional poignancy. A BBC Production. (20 minutes) © 1997 Preview Clip Online ‡ o $149.95 QGR8859 • DVD / VOD
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy This illuminating biography of Zora Neale Hurston examines the rich legacy of her writings. Interviews with biographer Lucy Anne Hurston and Harvard University’s Henry Louis Gates, Jr., are featured. The program amply demonstrates that Hurston truly had, as it said in her high school yearbook, “A heart with room for every joy.” A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (42 minutes) © 2005 Preview Clip Online C o
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