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Author:

Call of the wild (Motion picture : 2007)

Title:

The call of the wild / Terra Incognita Films presents a film by Ron Lamothe ; produced, written, and directed by Ron Lamothe.

Publisher:

Terra Incognita Films,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

McCandless, Christopher Johnson,--1968-1992.
Adventure and adventurers--United States--Biography.
Wayfaring life--United States.
Generation X--Biography.
Feature films.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Lamothe, Ron, 1968- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006135391
McCandless, Christopher Johnson, 1968-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95068846
Terra Incognita Films. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006135398

Notes:

This disc is a DVD-R and may fail to play on some DVD equipment. Narrator, Ron Lamothe. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007.

Summary:

Director Ron Lamothe visits important locations in the life of Chris "Alex" McCandless, a young man who was an "aesthetic voyager." McCandless was found dead at the age of 24 in an abondoned bus on a remote Alaska trail. Lamothe finds himself meeting Sean Penn over and over again as he is also making a movie about McCandless. The film touches on themes relevent to the director: Generation X, wilderness and the American imagination, rites of passage, and the changing American cultural landscape.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)217259569

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)