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New! Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space 114 min.

Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2023

Foundations of Semiology 24 min.

This audiobook explains the major insights of Ferdinand de Saussure who not only inaugurated the synchronic study of linguistics, earning him the title of the “Father of Modern Linguistics,” but who also invented a whole new discipline: semiology.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

Are the Classics Overrated?: A Debate 99 min.

For generations, colleges have taught classic works of literature by Aristotle, Homer, Plato, Virgil, and other ancient Greek and Roman authors. These works tackle profound issues of morality, justice, and existence, defenders argue, and are essential to understanding the human condition. In recent years, however, critics have charged that reverence for the classics is not only flawed but also enm...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2022

Molière's Tartuffe - Staged by Macha Makeïeff 150 min.

"Fantasy, desire, predation, consent, infamy, vertigo. In this great comedy, what is being played out and where is the truth? In front of the spectacle of this exasperated family that loses its footing, this device of revealed desire/denied pleasure, in the end, it is the audience that is unmasked in its voyeurism and its troubled enjoyment", says Macha Makeïeff, who seizes Molière's timeless mast...