Walt Whitman [videorecording] / a New York Center for Visual History production ; presented by South Carolina ETV Network ; producer and screenwriter, Jill Janows ; director, Jack Smithie.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Unapix Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
c1998
Description:
1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 1988. An episode from the PBS television series: Voices & visions. Louis Turenne; narrator: Peter MacNicol.
Summary:
Explores the life and work of American poet Walt Whitman. Examines his heroic vision of America, his frank call for sexual freedom, and his rejection of traditional constraints of form and subject matter. Incoporates numerous period photographs and paintings, with narrations by Galway Kinnell and commentary by Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Justin Kaplan and Harold Bloom.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)42262708
Locations:
HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.