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