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New! King Lear
Item# 40944
© 2009
150 Min.
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William Shakespeare's King Lear is considered one of the playwright's most haunting and enduring works, and its title role is a formidable right of passage for any great Shakespearean actor. This 2008...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Poet W. S. Merwin
Item# 40614
© 2009
55 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-151-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-150-7
W. S. Merwin, the author of nearly two dozen volumes of poetry, won his second Pulitzer Prize for his collection The Shadow of Sirius. In this edition of the Journal, Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wi...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Screenwriter David Simon
Item# 40417
© 2009
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-694-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-695-2
For five seasons, The Wire brought the poorly understood world of the inner city into living rooms across the country. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by the creator of that crit...
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Researching, Reading, and Writing
Item# 40414
© 2009
12 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-720-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-721-8
Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable o...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Abraham Lincoln Revealed
Item# 40407
© 2009
56 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-656-3
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-657-0
In this special performance edition of the Journal, actor Sam Waterston and historian Harold Holzer explore Lincoln's legacy and legend as defined in poetry and prose by significant American writers w...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Actor John Lithgow / Poetry Festival
Item# 40162
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-536-8
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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Bill Moyers Journal: Poet Nikki Giovanni / Economist Simon Johnson
Item# 40321
© 2009
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-514-6
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-515-3
Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech, is the author of 27 books. Her work has spanned the themes of love and sex, anger and grief, race, politics, and violenc...
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The Merchant of Venice: A New Perspective
Item# 40054
© 2009
177 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-099-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-100-1
Shakespeare's tale of love, betrayal, and retribution is perhaps best known for the tormented and implacable character of Shylock. This adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, directed by University of...
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The Generation of '27 Anthology-in Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 39652
© 2009
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-069-1
Following World War I, Spain underwent an intense flowering of art, literature, and culture-personified by a group of avant-garde poets known as the Generation of '27. This program profiles key member...
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Harold Bloom: Critic in the Active Voice
Item# 39542
© 2009
60 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-066-0
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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