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Title Tell about the South : voices in black & white : the history of modern Southern literature / [writer, producer and director, Ross Spears] ; narrated by Rita Dove.

Publication Info. Riverdale, MD : Agee Films, [1999]
©1999

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 Moore Video  PS261 .T455 1999  pt. 1    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PS261 .T455 1999  pt. 2    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PS261 .T455 1999  pt.3    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 3 videocassettes (221 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Note Title from containers.
Documentary.
Credits Cinematography, Neil Means & Peter Hawkins ; editors, Ross Spears & Neil Means ; music, Kenton Coe ; associate producers, Sylvia Kersusan & Catherine Dee .
Note Part one originally produced in 1996.
System Details DVD.
Summary Tells the story of modern Southern literature from 1915 to present. Features literary careers of William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Margaret Mitchell, Erskine Caldwell, the Fugitive poets, the Blues poets, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Walker Percy and many others.
Contents pt. 1. Tell about the South : 1915-1940 pt. 2. Prophets & poets : 1941-1962 -- pt. 3. Let freedom ring.
Subject American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Southern States.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Authors, American -- Southern States -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Authors, American -- Southern States -- Interviews.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Southern States -- In literature.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998.
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998.
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
O'Connor, Flannery.
O'Connor, Flannery.
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
Ellison, Ralph.
Ellison, Ralph.
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Interviews.
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Interviews.
Added Author Dove, Rita.
Styron, William, 1925-2006.
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011.
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019.
Giovanni, Nikki.
Coles, Robert.
Smith, Lee, 1944-
Edgerton, Clyde, 1944-
Brown, Larry, 1951-2004.
Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998.
Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013.
James Agee Film Project.
Added Title Voices in black & white
Voices in black and white
Note Subtitle on screen: History of modern Southern literature
Added Title Let freedom ring.
Tell about the South : 1915-1940.
Prophets & poets : 1941-1962 .
Prophets and poets : 1941-1962.