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Moyers & Company: Rita Dove—Decoding the Language of Poetry
Item# 48980
© 2012
30 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-981-6
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers welcomes former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, who received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Dove served two terms as poet laureate,...
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James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
Item# 47971
© 2011
54 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-906-9
Intending to become a fighter pilot until the allure of writing insinuated itself into his ambitions, James Salter developed a purity of prose and a remarkable power to evoke the erotic. He also carri...
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Placing the Author: Wordsworth, de Quincey, and Dove Cottage
Item# 48286
© 2010
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-680-8
Determined to live a life of “divinity and truth,” William Wordsworth took up residence in a rustic cottage to make real his romantic notions about nature and poetry. Shot on location at Dove Cottage,...
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Bill Moyers Journal: NYU President John Sexton / Poetry Festival
Item# 41690
© 2010
53 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-872-8
In "the church of baseball," John Sexton is one of the preeminent theologians. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Sexton-president of New York University, a scholar of religion...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Actress-Playwright Anna Deavere Smith / Poets House
Item# 41298
© 2009
57 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-617-5
While politicians and the media war over aspects of health care reform, award-winning actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith gives voice to questions of life and death, sickness and medical treatment,...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Actor John Lithgow / Poetry Festival
Item# 40162
© 2009
53 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-537-5
He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant, and a space alien. In this edition of the Journal, multifaceted actor and children's author John Lithgow joins Bill Moyers to...
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Harold Bloom: Critic in the Active Voice
Item# 39542
© 2009
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-067-7
From his assault on New Criticism to his salvos against the “school of resentment,” literary scholar Harold Bloom has fused an eloquent defense of the western canon with insightful analysis and a rebe...
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2nd Verse: The Rebirth of Poetry
Item# 52176
© 2007
63 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-177-4
Set in and around Oakland and San Francisco, this film examines urban teen life in the Bay Area through the rising popularity of poetry and spoken word. Youth performers include Emiliano Bourgois-Chac...
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Novel Reflections on the American Dream
Item# 37614
© 2007
116 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-8029-2
This program draws on insightful commentary from literary scholars and authors to examine the characters, plots, and themes of seven American novels that deal with wealth, poverty, and the nature of s...
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Realism: The Artistic Form of the Truth
Item# 35428
© 2007
54 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-6916-7
It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or in images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism—a widespread artistic movement, bor...
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