N. Scott Momaday : words from a bear / a co-production of Rainy Mountain Media LLC, Independent Television Service Inc., Vision Maker Media, and Thirteen Productions LLC's American Masters for WNET ; directed and produced by Jeffrey Palmer.
Contained in (work): American masters (Television program)
Notes:
Title from container. Interviewees, N. Scott Momaday, Robert Redford, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, James Earl Jones, Joy Harjo. Originally broadcast on television in 2019 as an episode of American masters. Special features: A reading from N. Scott Momaday's novel, In the bear's house, by James Earl Jones and Flynn Jones; dialogues with N. Scott Momaday and Robert Redford in Santa Fe, NM; an interview with M. Scott Momaday's former editor, Francis McCullough.
Summary:
Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.
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