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Hawthorne and Melville (198 Audio)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 56 min., 2004 sale: £11.00 (+ VAT)

Recorded in the USA with Americal critics, this series of audiotapes provides an introduction to the major works of literature in the country. This is a talk by James Cox of Dartmouth College

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Cinematic Fictions

Date

22 Aug 2013, 10:52

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel up to the Second World War by David Seed (Liverpool University Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1846312120 (hardback), £65 About the reviewer:...

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Crane and James (198)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 56 minutes), £11.00

Recorded in the USA with Americal critics, this series of audiota[pes provides an introduction to the major works of literature in the country. This is a talk by George Montiero of Brown University

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Red Badge of Courage (1951)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL)

A film adaptation, directed by John Huston, of the novel by Stephen Crane about a boy’s initiation into manhood as a Union soldier in American Civil War.

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Toni Morrison (1985)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

Toni Morrison inn conversation with AS Byatt at the ICA discusses: the terrain of black women novelists; defining oneself as a writer; black American literature; the visual as starting point of the novel;...

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Scarlet Letter, The (1995)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £15.99

Film adaptation of Hawthorne’s classic tale of morality and puritanism in 17th century Boston

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Washington Square (1997)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 111 minutes), £10 (approx)

Film adaptation of Henry James’s tragic novel starring Jennifer Jason leigh and Albert Finney.

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American Experience: Walt Whitman (2008)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes)

WIth ‘Leaves of Grass’, Walt Whitman offered up his poetry and his persona as a reflection of the America he saw; daring, noble, naive, brutish, sexual, frightening and flawed. This film tells...

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Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns (2004)

aka: Mark Twain: A Film by Ken Burns

Director

Ken Burns

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 210 minutes), £19.99

A documentary by Ken Burns, the fifth part of his PBS television series ‘American Lives’. Looks at the life and work of Mark Twain, using archival photography and interviews with writers including Russel...

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Raymond Carver - Dreams Are What You Wake Up from (1989)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £125.00

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize, yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences,...

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