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VH 5795 20th Century American Fiction, Part 1, Lectures 1-4
Summary: Part 1 of a 4 part series that discuss the great figures in modern American literature. Lecture 1: American Fiction and the Individualist Creed. Lecture 2: The American Self: Ghost in Disguise. Lecture 3: What Produces "Nobody"? Lecture 4: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: Writing as the Talking Cure. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5796 20th Century American Fiction, Part 1, Lectures 5-8
Summary: Part 1 of a 4 part series that discusses the great figures in modern American literature. Lecture 5: Winesburg: A New American Prose-Poetry. Lecture 6: Hemingway: Journalist, Writer, Legend. Lecture 7: Hemingway as Trauma Artist. Lecture 8: Hemingway's Cunning Art. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5798 20th Century American Fiction, Part 2, Lectures 13 - 16
Summary: 13. "Light in August": Determinism vs. Freedom, 14. "Light in August": Novel as Poem, or Beyond Holocaust, 15. Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Canon Explosion, 16. "Their Eyes Were Watching God": From Romance to Myth. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5797 20th Century American Fiction, Part 2, Lectures 9 - 12
Summary: 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Tender Is the Night": Fitzgerald's Second Act. 10. Fitzgerald's Psychiatric Tale, 11. Dick's Dying Fall: An American Story, 1 2. "Light in August": Midpoint of the Faulkner Career. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5799 20th Century American Fiction, Part 3, Lectures 17-20
Summary: 17. Flannery O"Connor: Realist of Distances, 18. O'Connor: Taking the Measure of Region, 19. William Burroughs: Bad Boy of American Literature, 20. "Naked Lunch": the Body in Culture. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5800 20th Century American Fiction, Part 3, Lectures 21 - 24
Summary: 21. "Naked Lunch": Power and Exchange in the Viral World, 22. Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five": Apocalypse Now, 23. Vonnegut's World: Tralfamadore or Trauma?, 24. Robert Coover: Postmodern Fabulator. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5801 20th Century American Fiction, Part 4, Lectures 25 - 28
Summary: 25. "The Public Burning": Execution at Times Square, 26. Robert Coover: Fiction as Fission, 27. Toni Morrison's "Sula": From Trauma to Freedom, 28. Sula: New Black Women. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5802 20th Century American Fiction, Part 4, Lectures 29 - 32
Summary: 29. Don DeLillo: Decoder of American Frequencies, 30. "White Noise": Representing the Environment, 31. DeLillo and American Dread, 32. Conclusion: Nobody's Home. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 6707 Achebe at 70: Birthday Celebration
Summary: A conversation on writing between Achebe and Toni Morrison that took place at Bard College, New York, and their responses to audience questions. 089 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2357 Age of Sophocles, The I: Oedipus Rex
Summary: Starting with the opening scene of "Oedipus Rex, " the video provides an historical perspective on the ancient Greeks and their experiences with pure democracy. Students can also compare the properties and conventions of the Greek theater with the theater today. 030 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE

VH 4809 Alice Walker
Summary: In this profile, Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with anger and urgency rooted in an abiding optimism. 030 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 1126 All's Well That Ends Well (Part 1)
Summary: A play about Helena, the new wife of Count Bertram, who resorts to chicanery to win the respect and affection of her husband. 100 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1127 All's Well That Ends Well (Part 2)
Summary: A play about Helena, the new wife of Count Bertram, who resorts to chicanery to win the respect and affection of her husband. 065 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1128 All's Well That Ends Well (Part 3)
Summary: A play about Helena, the new wife of Count Bertram, who resorts to chicanery to win the respect and affection of her husband. 065 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1849 American Pioneers
Summary: Contents include Poe, "The City in the Sea"; Whitman, " a long extract from "Song of Myself", "A Noiseless Patient Spider"; Howe, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Melville, "Shiloh"; Dickinson, "This is my letter to the World", "I felt a fly buzz-when I died-, Because I could not stop for death, My life closed twice before its close; Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy". Performers include: series host John Gielgud, Lee Remick, and Stacy Keach. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 8150 Ana Maria Matute
Summary: "One of Spain's foremost women writers, Ana Mara Matute has displayed a recurring fascination with the Spanish Civil War and the defenselessness of children and the poor. Framed within the context of an appearance by Matute at the Real Academia Espanola de las Lengua, this program travels to Barcelona and locales in Spain's Rioja region. Excerpts from "Olvidado rey Gudu" and "El Rio" demonstrate a subtler sensitivity and a tightening in construction as compared with Matute's earlier works, while "Casa de juegos prohibidos: textos inocentes" illustrations the breadth of her writing." --Container. 048 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 3539 Antony And Cleopatra
Summary: Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps best known for its moments of rich poetry and high romance. But apart from this, there are many short crowded scenes in which soldiers prepare for battle, or politicians deal with the affairs of state. In many productions these scenes are hastened over, although their relative speed and compactness can cause great problems for the actor. In this program, director John Russell-Brown concentrates on one such short scene, in which Antony takes his leave of Cleopatra before going into battle with Caesar. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 1112 Antony and Cleopatra (Part 1)
Summary: Explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion. 100 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1113 Antony and Cleopatra (Part 2)
Summary: Explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion. 062 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1114 Antony and Cleopatra (Part 3)
Summary: Explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion. 065 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1217 Arturo Madrid
Summary: Educator Arturo Madrid discusses the role of Hispanic Americans in American public life focusing on cultural and educational barriers created by the dominate, white American society. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, LATIN AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2714 As I Remember It
Summary: This intimate portrait of African American writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. Born at the turn of the century to a prosperous Boston family, West experienced the legendary era first-hand. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up Black, privileged and enthralled by literature. Archival footage and photographs, interviews and 056 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY

VH 1097 As You Like It (Part 1)
Summary: A comedy about all kinds of love: physical and intellectual, sentimental and cynical, enduring love between friends and romantic love at first sight. 048 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1098 As You Like It (Part 2)
Summary: A comedy about all kinds of love: physical and intellectual, sentimental and cynical, enduring love between friends and romantic love at first sight. 049 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 4812 August Wilson
Summary: This video introduces one of America's most celebrated playwrights, August Wilson. His on-going project to write a play on African American life set in each decade of this century is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the history of American theater. 022 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, WRITERS, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 1693 Black American Literature (Valerie Smith)
Summary: Valerie Smith surveys the development of black American literature from the 1890's to the 1930's, examining the achievements of the authors who consolidated the Afro-American literary tradition at the turn of the century (notably Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar), the major poets and novelists of the Harlem Renaissance (notably Nellie Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston), who provide a unique, double perspective on racial and sexual 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1438 Black Female Authors & Playwrights
Summary: Hosted by Phil Donahue. Features Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace & Angela Davis. 030 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 8301 Bodas De Sangre
Summary: A story of murderous passion and revenge with enormous tragic dimensions that results when a young bride runs off from her wedding with her married lover. Directed by Jose Luis Gomez. 106 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 3469 Builders of Images: Latin American Cultural Identity
Summary: Explores the role of the artist in the Americas through four diverse and influential artists: Puerto Rican writer Luis Rafael Sanchez, Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso, Mexican performer and playwright Jesusa Rodriquez, and Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ART, LATIN AMERICAN Series: AMERICAS

VH 6696 Carlos Fuentes: At Home in the Americas
Summary: The writings of Carlos Fuemtes, a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes, have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. 028 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN Series: PROFILES: THE FACES OF LATIN AMERICA TODAY

VH 6442 Celebration of Black History: The Writers, Stories, Legacy
Summary: A live, interactive satellite video conference featuring prominent African American writers. Discusses the impact of African American literature as it pertains to American culture and life. Focuses on the history of African and African American storytelling, the resurgence of Black authors and their works, and pays a tribute to Alex Haley and his contributions to American literature. 115 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: BEYOND THE DREAM

VH 2358 Character of Oedipus, The II
Summary: This filmed play describes and analyzes Oedipus' character and actions in view of Aristotle's theory of the "fatal flaw" in all tragic characters. 030 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE

VH 4810 Charles Johnson
Summary: In this video Johnson describes his over-arching literary objective: to explore classic metaphysical questions from East and West against the backdrop of African American life and history. 027 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, WRITERS Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 5809 Chinua Achebe: Africa's Voice
Summary: This program analyzes the impact of Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on world literature, as well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation of African writers. 061 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: WRITERS

VH 2319 Circle of the Hills, The: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892
Summary: Outlines the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from his humble beginnings as one of eleven children of a poor country cleric, to a position of great wealth and fame as Poet Laureate. 061 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 5783 Classics of American Literature, Part 2 ( Lectures 13 - 18)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 18th and 19th century. Lecture 13: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past. Lecture 14: The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Romance. Lecture 15: Hawthorne's "A": Interpretation and Semiosis. Lecture 16: The Scarlet Letter: Political Tract or Psychological Study. Lecture 17: Hawthorne Our Contemporary. Lecture 18: Herman Melville and the Making of Moby Dick. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5784 Classics of American Literature, Part 2 (Lectures 19 - 20)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 18th and 19th century. Lecture 19: The Biggest Fish Story of Them All. Lecture 20: Ahab and the White Whale. Lecture 21: Moby Dick: Tragedy of Perspective. Lecture22: Melville's "Benito Cereno": American Misadventure at Sea. Lecture 23: "Benito Cereno": Theatre of Power, or Power of Theatre? Lecture 24: Walt Whitman: The American Bard Appears. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5781 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 1 ( Lectures 1 - 6)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 18th and 19th century. Lecture 1: Introduction to Classics of American Literature. Lecture 2: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: The First American Story. Lecture 3: Washington Irving: The First American Storyteller. Lecture 4: Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday: America's Coming of Age. Lecture 5: Emerson Today: Architect of American Values. Lecture 6: Emerson Tomorrow: Deconstructing Culture and Self. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 188 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5782 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 1 ( Lectures 7 - 12)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 18th and 19th century. Lecture 7: Henry David Thoreau: Counter cultural Hero. Lecture 8: Thoreau: Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire. Lecture 9: Walden: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Lecture 10: Edgar Allen Poe: Poete Maudit. Lecture 11: Poe: Ghost Writer. Lecture 12: Poe's Legacy: the Self as "Haunted Palace." Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 188 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5785 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 3 (Lectures 25 - 36)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 18th and 19th century. Lecture 25: Whitman: Poet of the Body. Lecture 26: Whitman: Poet of the City. Lecture 27: Whitman: Poet of Death. Lecture 28: The Whitman Legacy. Lecture 29: Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Unread Classic. Lecture 30: Stowe's Representation of Slavery. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5786 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 3 (Lectures 31 - 36)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 18th and 19th century. Lecture 31: Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lecture 32: Emily Dickinson: In and Out of Nature. Lecture 33: Dickinson's Poetry: Language and Consciousness. Lecture 34: Dickinson: Devotee of Death. Lecture 35: Dickinson: "Amhearst's Madame de Sade." Lecture 36: Dickinson's Legacy. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5787 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 4 (Lectures 37 - 48)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 19th and 20th century. Lecture 37: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: American Paradise Regained. Lecture 38: Huckleberry Finn: A Child's Voice, a Child's Vision. Lecture 40: Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan. Lecture 41: Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Black and White Charade. Lecture 42: Henry James and the Novel of Perception. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 188 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5788 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 4 (Lectures 43 - 48)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 19th and 20th century. Lecture 43: The Turn of the Screw: Do You Believe in Ghosts? Lecture 44: Turning the Screw of Interpretation. Lecture 45: Stephen Crane and the Literature of War. Lecture 46: The Red Badge of Courage: Brave New World. Lecture 47: Stephen Crane: Scientist of Human Behavior. Lecture 48: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: War Against Patriarchy. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 188 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5789 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 5 (Lectures 49 - 60)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 19th and 20th century. Lecture 49: "The Yellow Wallpaper": Descent Into Hell? or Free at Last?" Lecture 50: Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England. Lecture 51: Robert Frost: "At Home in the Metaphor." Lecture 52: Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth. Lecture 53: T.S. Eliot: Unloved Modern Classic. Lecture 54: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Beyond. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5790 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 5 (Lectures 55 - 60)
Summary: Six lectures tracing the classics of American literature between 19th and 20th century. Lecture 55: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: American Romance. Lecture 56: The Great Gatsby: A Story of Lost Illusions? Lecture 57: Fitzgerald's Triumph: Writing the American Dream. Lecture 58: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: Novel of the Lost Generation. Lecture 59: The Sun Also Rises: Spiritual Quest. Lecture 60: Ernest Hemingway: Wordsmith. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5791 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 6 (Lectures 61 - 66)
Summary: 61. "The Garden of Eden": Female Desire Unleashed, 62. "The Garden of Eden": Combat Zone, 63. William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": The Idiot's Tale, 64. "The Sound and the Fury": Failed Rites of Passage, 65. "The Sound and the Fury": Signifying Nothing?, 66. "Absalom, Absalom!: Civil War Epic. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5792 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 6 (Lectures 67 - 72)
Summary: 67. "Absalom, Absalom!: The Language of Love, 68. "Absalom, Absalom!: The Overpass to Love, 69. "The Grapes of Wrath": American Saga, 70. John Steinbeck: Poet of the Little Man, 71. "The Grapes of Wrath": Reconceiving Self and Family, 72. "Invisible Man": Balck Bildungsroman. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5793 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 7 (Lectures 73 - 78)
Summary: "Invisible Man": Reconceiving History and Race, 74. "Invisible Man": What Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue?, 75. Eugene O'Neill: Great God of American Theater, 76. "Long Day's Journey Into Night": There's No Place Life Home, 77. Tennessee Williams: Managing Libido, 78. "A Streetcar Named Desire": The Death of Romance. 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5794 Classics of American Literature, Pt. 7 (Lectures 79 - 84)
Summary: 79."Death of A Salesman": Death of an Ethos?, 80. "Death of a Salesman": Tragedy of the American Dream, 81. Toni Morrison's "Beloved": Dismembering and Remembering, 82. "Beloved": A Story of Thick Love, 83. "Beloved": Morrison's Writing of the Body, 84. Conclusion to "Classics of American Literature". 190 Min. VIDEO 1998 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 1144 Comedy of Errors, The
Summary: A farce about two pairs of twins involved in an elaborate series of mistaken identities. 109 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1820 Conquering America with Bharati Mukherjee
Summary: Bharati Mukherjee writes vivid, sensual and troubling stories about America's newest immigrants -- Asians, like herself. In this episode, Mukherjee talks about being an immigrant in America today. In her opinion, the new immigrants are reinventing the idea of America. 030 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, ASIAN STUDIES, WRITERS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 7906 Conversar Es Humano: Entrevista Con Octavio Paz
Summary: Mexican author Octavio Paz is interviewed in Spanish by Enrico Mario Santi and reads from some of his books. 056 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS

VH 1106 Coriolanus (Part 1)
Summary: Dramatization of the last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character. 059 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1107 Coriolanus (Part 2)
Summary: Dramatization of the last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character. 128 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1093 Cymbeline (Part 1)
Summary: Cymbeline is the fanciful story of Imogen, daughter of Britain's King Cymbeline, whose evil second queen forces Cymbeline to banish Imogen's husband, Posthumous, because she wants to force Imogen to wed her thick-witted son Cloten. Trickery and deceit abound as Imogen, disguised as a boy in order to clear her name, is forced to flee the castle. 102 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1094 Cymbeline (Part 2)
Summary: Cymbeline is the fanciful story of Imogen, daughter of Britain's king Cymbeline, whose evil second queen forces Cymbeline to banish Imogen's husband, Posthumus, because she wants to force Imogen to wed her thick-witted son Cloten. Trickery and deceit abound as Imogen, disguised as a boy in order to clear her name, is forced to flee the castle. 102 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 2230 Derek Walcott
Summary: Both a poet and teacher, Derek Walcott is a West Indian born a British subject on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. In his poetry, Walcott delves into the impact of the English language on his oppressed homeland. 029 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, CARIBBEAN STUDIES Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 7056 Derrida's Elsewhere
Summary: A highly personal exploration of the 20th century philosopher Jacques Derrida, presenting the links between Derrida's life and his work. In discussions, Derrida describes his mother and childhood in the same manner as he does ideas, somewhere between affect and concept, at a boundary where a work becomes biography and biography gives birth to a work. This documentary film takes viewers into Derrida's world -- that of his work in Paris and that of his familial and Jewish spiritual roots in Algeria and the Spain of Lorca and El Greco. 068 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 2628 La Dolce Vita, Part 2
Summary: One of the most controversial films of all time. La Dolce Vita is a daring and dazzling masterpiece from Europe's premiere filmmaker, Federico Fellini, at the peak of his creative prowess and popularity. This international blockbuster follows the descent of a notorious gossip columnist into the decadent world of Rome's pampered rich. Searching only for a new scandal to expose, the writer instead finds himself hopelessly seduced. 178 Min. VIDEO 1961 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 1205 E.L. Doctorow
Summary: Novelist E.L. Doctorow discusses the decline of the political novel in American literature and contrasts the writer's capacity for stimulating changes in political attitudes with the politician's tendency towards manipulation of people's political passions. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, WRITERS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2059 Earlier Twentieth Century, The
Summary: The program includes selections from Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, Elliot and Auden. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: SURVEY OF ENGLISH POETRY

VH 2969 Effective Writing, Part 1
Summary: Professor Eric Rabkin, University of Michigan, 4 lectures: Audience and Purpose, Blueprinting, Construction, Dissent. 180 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 2970 Effective Writing, Part 2
Summary: Professor Eric Rabkin, University of Michigan, 4 Lectures: Edit, Field Test, Choosing Just the Right Words, Beyond Words. 180 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 0294 Elizabeth Bishop
Summary: Explores the life and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop through illustrated readings of her poetry, and conversations with friends, colleagues, poets, a biographer and critics. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 0290 Emily Dickinson
Summary: An exploration of the work and conjectures about the life of Emily Dickinson, includes dramatized incidents from her life and illustrated readings of her poetry with commentary by poets, writers, critics and biographers. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 0285 Ezra Pound
Summary: Situations from the life of Ezra Pound, with recitations from his poetry. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 2087 Fools Luck & A God In Colchester
Summary: FOOLS LUCK--"Trust no one." This is the advice Claudius hears from a trusted friend as he assumes the imperial throne, but the advice hardly seems needed. A GOD IN COLCHESTER--While the emperor Claudius is away, leading his army's invasion of Britain, his bored wife Messalina passes the time with a succession of lovers. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS

VH 4845 For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker
Summary: For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker gives the long overdo recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. "For My People" combines conversations with Margaret Walker, commentary from leading scholars and from her poetry to make a powerful argument for the centrality of her work to 20th century American literature. Directed by: Judith McCray. 027 Min. VIDEO Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 0571 Frances Steloff/Memoirs of a Bookseller
Summary: An intimate portrait of Francis Steloff, the founder of the Gotham Book Mart, center for avant-garde literature and literati since 1920. Includes interview with Steloff. 028 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: WRITERS

VH 5884 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Summary: In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal plane. 044 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, WRITERS Series: CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN LATIN WRITERS

VH 6711 Get to Know Bernard Most
Summary: Children's book author and illustrator Bernard Most visits the library, draws in his studio, and talks with kids about his books. He encourages them to use their imaginations and get the most of what they see. 020 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: BIOGRAPHY

VH 6712 Get to Know Keith Baker
Summary: Accompany author and illustrator Keith Baker on a trip to a museum to study the Japanese paintings that inspired his book The Magic Fan, a trip to the zoo, and a visit to his studio. 022 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: BIOGRAPHY

VH 6713 Get to Know Lois Ehlert
Summary: Children's book author and illustrator Lois Ehlert talks about her childhood and the influences on her work. Includes several excerpts from her books. 019 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: BIOGRAPHY

VH 6714 Get to Know Lynne Cherry
Summary: Children's book author and illustrator Lynne Cherry shares her life, her daily activities, her interest in environmental preservation, and her creative process, showing how all are intertwined. 020 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: BIOGRAPHY

VH 4808 Gloria Naylor
Summary: In this program Naylor discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African American identity in a world dominated by whites. Naylor reminds her readers, "to celebrate voraciously that which is yours." 021 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, WRITERS Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 6513 Great Women Writers
Summary: Three female writers, Rita Dove, S. E. Hinton, and Maya Angelou, reveal the roots of their passion for writing. 024 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY

VH 5398 Great Women Writers
Summary: Three female writers, Rita Dove, S.E. Hinton, and Maya Angelou, reveal the roots of their passion for writing. 024 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 1139 Hamlet, Part 1
Summary: In this tragedy, Shakespeare uses a tense drama of murder, conspiracy and revenge as a medium for inquiring into the most fundamental problems: justice, guilt, madness, death, and the difficulty of understanding oneself and others. Hamlet, a prince of medieval era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. 102 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1140 Hamlet, Part 2
Summary: In this tragedy, Shakespeare uses a tense drama of murder, conspiracy and revenge as a medium for inquiring into the most fundamental problems: justice guilt, madness death, and the difficulty of understanding oneself and others. Hamlet, a prince of medieval era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. 060 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 3544 Hamlet, Workshop 1
Summary: The program investigates the question of Hamlet's character as director John Russell-Brown takes actor David Yelland through various interpretations of the role, working on some of Hamlet's key speeches and interactions with other characters and trying out various ways of presenting this complex character. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 3545 Hamlet, Workshop 2
Summary: This program expands on the idea of Hamlet's character to bring the prince into dramatic relationship with other characters. The program looks at how far such interactions modify or support issues of character resolved in the first workshop, and how the actor playing this complex role relates the meaning of the famous soliloquies to the dynamic, political moments of the play. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 6386 Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, The
Summary: A two-part production which introduces the viewer to the major Black writers of the 1920s, and in particular, to those writers of this period who collectively were referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance." 032 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 6310 Harold Pinter with Benedict Nightingale
Summary: Discusses characteristics of the English playwright, torture as subject (with particular reference to his play "One for the Road" which investigates torture in totalitarian regimes), the function and usefulness of drama, beginning a play without knowing its end, and the challenges of writing as a political person without writing propaganda. 048 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: THEATRE, DRAMA Series: WRITERS TALK, IDEAS OF OUR TIME

VH 0288 Hart Crane
Summary: Situations from the life of Hart Crane, with recitations from his poetry. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 1155 Henry IV, Part I, Reel 1
Summary: Against a background of Civil War, Prince Hal, the heir to the throne, appears to waste his youth irresponsibly among the low life of the London taverns, in the company of the self indulgent, treacherous, irresponsible Sir John Falstaff. The boisterous comedy of the tavern scenes and the political tensions between the King and the rebels lead to the Battle of Shrewsbury, at which the Prince redeems himself. 045 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1156 Henry IV, Part I, Reels 2 & 3
Summary: Against a background of Civil War, Prince Hal, the heir to the throne, appears to waste his youth irresponsibly among the low life of the London taverns, in the company of the self indulgent, treacherous, irresponsible Sir John Falstaff. The boisterous comedy of the tavern scenes and the political tensions between the King and the rebels lead to the Battle of Shrewsbury, at which the Prince redeems himself. 110 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1157 Henry IV, Part II, Reel 1
Summary: The revolt against Henry is finally crushed; yet the king, tired and sick, dies, and his son Hal is crowned Henry V. 053 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1158 Henry IV, Part II, Reels 2 & 3
Summary: The revolt against Henry is finally crushed; yet the king, tired and sick, dies, and his son Hal is crowned Henry V. 100 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 3540 Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Workshop 1
Summary: For centuries, Falstaff has been one of Shakespeare's most popular and memorable creations. But are his exchanges with the young Prince Hal just pure comic relief? In this program, director John Russell-Brown asks Timothy West and Michael Thomas to try out some of their crucial scenes, and asks them to explore the ways in which the ebullient humor casts light on the darkest historical elements of the play. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 3541 Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Workshop 2
Summary: This programs looks at some of the verse scenes, which are sometimes called the political scenes but which are personal and private, as well. The play is not just about a king and his heir, a ruler and those who rebel against him, but about fathers and sons. The program looks in particular at the relationship between Prince Hal and Henry IV and considers what effect it has on the affairs of state and the succession, and how the intimate language conveyed between father and son repeats the poetry dealing with large historical issues of that time. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 1153 Henry V, Part 1
Summary: A presentation of Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he at tempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose. 062 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1154 Henry V, Part 2 & 3
Summary: A presentation of Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he attempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose. 102 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1147 Henry VI, Part I, Reels 1 & 2
Summary: Offers a glimpse of the beginning of the long civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster and Joan of Arc helping to drive the English from French soil. 102 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1148 Henry VI, Part I, Reels 3 & 4
Summary: Offers a glimpse of the beginning of the long civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster and Joan of Arc helping to drive the English from French soil. 102 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1149 Henry VI, Part II, Reels 1 & 2
Summary: Henry marries Lady Margaret of Anjou, but she despises him for his meekness and takes Suffolk as a lover. The new Queen, who also hates the Yorks, becomes the inspiration of the Lancastrians. She and her followers are pitted against Richard, Duke of York, and his supporters, who include the Earl of Warwick. 107 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1150 Henry VI, Part II, Reels 3 & 4
Summary: Henry marries Lady Margaret of Anjou, but she despises him for his meekness and takes Suffolk as a lover. The new Queen, who also hates the Yorks, becomes the inspiration of the Lancastrians. She and her followers are pitted against Richard, Duke of York, and his supporters, who include the Earl of Warwick. 110 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1110 Henry VI, Part III (Part 1)
Summary: Concludes the dramatization of William Shakespeare's play about King Henry VI during the War of the Roses. 135 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1111 Henry VI, Part III (Part 2)
Summary: Concludes the dramatization of William Shakespeare's play about King Henry VI during the War of the Roses. 102 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1151 Henry VIII, Part 1
Summary: Presents a dramatization of Shakespeare's last play, Henry VIII, which spins a web of intrigue and betrayal amid historic pageantry. 052 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1152 Henry VIII, Part 2 & 3
Summary: Presents a dramatization of Shakespeare's last play, Henry VIII, which spins a web of intrigue and betrayal amid historic pageantry. 118 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 2987 Highlights From Literary Visions
Summary: Shows highlights of the series "Literary Visions" which introduces students to literature and literary analysis. 018 Min. VIDEO

VH 8149 A History Of Spanish Literature
Summary: Overview of Spanish literature including the cultural and political influences that led to the creation of some of Spain's literary masterpieces, and the development of the Castilian dialect. 029 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 4484 Image of Reality.../ Artful Resonance: Theme in Poetry
Summary: "Image of Reality: The Elements of Drama." Dramatizations of selected scenes from Oedipus Rex, Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie, and an interview with playwright August Wilson. "Artful Resonance: Theme in Poetry." Dramatizations of six poems that share the same subject help clarify the difference between subject and theme. Close analysis of poems by John Donne and Donald Hall explore the interrelationship between poetic form and meaning. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: DRAMA Series: LITERARY VISIONS

VH 5841 Interview with Tillie Olsen, An
Summary: Historian Peter Carroll, interviews Tillie Olsen about her well-known short story, "I Stand Here Ironing, " and the catalyst that transformed her back into a professional writer after 20 years of motherhood. Title on container: Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing." 018 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: WRITERS

VH 6697 Isabel Allende: Possessed by her Art
Summary: In this program Isabel Allende discusses her years in Chile, Venezuela and the United States and the importance of spiritualism in her creative process. 028 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN Series: PROFILES: THE FACES OF LATIN AMERICA TODAY

VH 5885 Isabel Allende: The Woman's Voice in Latin Amer. Literature
Summary: Isabel Allende, a Latin American novelist, is interviewed about the beliefs and emotions that shape her writing. She describes her views on life, literature, women's rights, reviewers and how she creates the characters in her novels. 056 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, WRITERS

VH 1341 James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Summary: Presents a look at author James Baldwin's life as reflected in his words and reminiscences of family and friends. 086 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1218 Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Jessica Tuchman Mathews who discusses the environmental dangers the world faces from global warming and the greenhouse effect. Dr. Mathews focuses on the national security aspects of the U.S. government's lack of a coherent energy policy and the U.S. automobile industry's reluctance to produce vehicles that are more energy efficient and create less pollution. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2352 John Keats: His Life & Death
Summary: Explores Keat's love affair with Fanny Brawne and the events surrounding his death. Written by Archibald MacLeish. 054 Min. VIDEO 1973

VH 2353 John Keats: Poet
Summary: Written by Archibald MacLeish, this video dramatizes the live of Keats from his early years in England until his death in Rome at the age of 26. Excerpts from Keat's letters and poetry reveal the integrity of the man and the genius of the poet. 030 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: WRITERS

VH 1216 John Lukacs
Summary: Historian John Lukacs discusses trends in American institutions and culture that are moving the United States away from the values and qualities responsible for its preeminence in the world and towards a condition of bureaucracy, apathy and decline. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 4813 John Wideman
Summary: In this video Wideman discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominantly white, middle-class literary audience. 026 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, WRITERS Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 1212 Joseph Heller
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews novelist Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, discussing the absurdities of American politics and culture and similar occurrences in ancient Greece. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, WRITERS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2448 Joseph Heller
Summary: Heller is so closely identified with Catch-22 (and with good reason-it is one of the seminal books of mid-century) that he has spent the rest of his literary career trying to live down his own success. In this portrait, he shows that he is more than a one-book author and that his absurdist wit, irreverent philosophy, and self-aware literary style have been applied with lasting results in a growing body of serious work. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: WRITERS

VH 1119 Julius Caesar (Part 1)
Summary: A play about power, assassination and revenge. Presents a broad range o f historical personalities as complicated human beings in agonizing conflict wit h one another and themselves. 062 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1120 Julius Caesar (Part 2)
Summary: A play about power, assassination and revenge. Presents a broad range o f historical personalities as complicated human beings in agonizing conflict wit h one another and themselves. 065 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 8015 Ken Botnick, Text & Texture: : Design & Reading
Summary: FAU Wimberly Library book arts lecture on April 15, 2003 by Ken Botnick . 049 Min. VIDEO 2003

VH 1089 King John (Part 1)
Summary: Shakespeare changes the character of the king to emphasize weakness an d raising the swaggering Faulconbridge to the status of a hero. 101 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1090 King John (Part 2)
Summary: Shakespeare changes the character of the king to emphasize weakness and raising the swaggering Faulconbridge to the status of a hero. 100 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1117 King Lear (Part 1)
Summary: A bitter tragedy about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters. 104 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1118 King Lear (Part 2)
Summary: A bitter tragedy about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters. 100 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 3546 King Lear, Workshop 1
Summary: In this program, director John Russell-Brown takes actor Julian Glover through Act II, scene 4, as far as to the storm scene. The central issue is Lear's madness. How can an actor convey it and at the same time be aware of the "reason in madness" so central to the meaning of the play? Answers to this can come only through detailed enactment and discussion of certain crucial moments. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 3547 King Lear, Workshop 2
Summary: This program continues the work begun in the first workshop on King Lear. In the central storm scene, Lear's madness is at its height, and his language, seemingly broken down into incoherent and disconnected phrases, becomes intensely poetic. This intensity has to be combined with dramatic necessities: interactions with other characters, the conveying of plots, the audience's sense of Lear's inner development and understanding despite the growth of his madness. The program looks in detail at Act IV, scene 6, the storm scene, and at Lear's poignant re-encounter with the blind Gloucester, played by Basil Henson. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 7924 Knorosov: The Decipherment of the Mayan Script
Summary: Reviews the history of attempts to decipher Mayan glyphs, finally accomplished by Yuri V. Knorosov, who in 1952 while working at the Russian Institute of Ethnography discovered the key to the Mayan writing system. 057 Min. VIDEO 2000

VH 0286 Langston Hughes
Summary: A chronological look at the life and work of Langston Hughes with illustrated readings from his poetry and interviews with friends, colleagues and a biographer. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 1214 Leon Kass
Summary: Leon Kass of the University of Chicago talks about the role of the physician who works with people at the most critical of times of their lives. The place of medical ethics is discussed also. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2252 Life Together, A
Summary: Two of America's most respected literary figures, Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon, join Bill Moyers in this intimate conversation about their careers, their poetry, and their lives together as husband and wife. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: WRITERS Series: BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL

VH 8134 Living Literature: The Classics & You, Dante, The Inferno (#10)
Summary: Lessons no. 10-11 of the television series introduce undergraduate students to the primary library texts that have shaped Western culture, challenging students to think critically and creatively about that cultural tradition and their place as individuals within it, and demonstrating the vitality of classic texts which transcend time and place. 059 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 8135 Living Literature: The Classics & You, Dante, The Inferno (#11)
Summary: Lessons no. 10-11 of the television series introduce the undergraduate students to the primary literary texts that have shaped Western culture, challenging students to think critically and creatively about that cultural tradition and their place as individuals within it, and demonstrating the vitality of classic texts which transcend time and place. 059 Min. VIDEO 1995

VH 1135 Love's Labour Lost (Part 1)
Summary: A satire directed against intellectual pride and pedantry. The comedy concerns a King and his three lords who take a vow to spend three years in study and not to see any women. The storyline becomes complicated when the Princess of France and her three ladies arrive on a mission and thus test the men's vow. 060 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1136 Love's Labour Lost (Part 2)
Summary: A satire directed against intellectual pride and pedantry. The comedy concerns a King and his three lords who take a vow to spend three years in study and not to see any women. The story line becomes complicated when the Princess of France and her three ladies arrive on a mission and thus test the men's vow. 108 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 0687 Man Who Planted Trees, The
Summary: An animated parable about how the power of determination turned a desert into an oasis. 030 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 6698 Marcela Serrano: A New Voice
Summary: Marcela Serrano assesses the diverse concerns that have influenced her life and work, including the elimination of apartheid and the importance of creating genuine and loving relationships. 028 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN Series: PROFILES: THE FACES OF LATIN AMERICA TODAY

VH 0291 Marianne Moore
Summary: Situations from the life of Marianne Moore, with recitations from her poetry. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 6699 Mario Benedetti: Writing and Revolution
Summary: Recognized as one of Uruguay's most perceptive writers, Mario Benedetti was also deeply involved in Latin American politics during the 1960s and 70s. In this program, Benedetti reflects on topics such as his life both at home and in Cuba, his crisis of political consciousness, and his diverse oeuvre, which includes novels, short stories, poems and essays. 028 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN Series: PROFILES: THE FACES OF LATIN AMERICA TODAY

VH 6700 Mario Vargas Llosa: In Love with Peru
Summary: The writings of Mario Vargas Llosa penetrating studies of Peruvian life demonstrate the author's lifelong commitment to social change. In this program, Vargas Llosa offers insights into his beloved homeland, his life abroad, his unsuccessful bid for the presidency, and other topics. 028 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: LATIN AMERICAN Series: PROFILES: THE FACES OF LATIN AMERICA TODAY

VH 1219 Martha C. Nussbaum
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who relates how the lessons of the ancient Greeks can be applied to our present day living. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, DRAMA Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1199 Mary Catherine Bateson
Summary: Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson discusses the future of children, working women, and the creative life. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 4870 Maya Angelou Perspective
Summary: Ms. Angelou talked about the balms, the healing powers, which have maintained African Americans in their struggle for equality in the U.S. She emphasized that leaders, teachers, and poetry are such balms. She also read from some of her works and shared personal stories about some of the balms in her life. 059 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1137 Measure for Measure (Part 1)
Summary: Deals with the law in Vienna, a law where a sexual relationship between unmarried people is punishable by death. 050 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1138 Measure for Measure (Part 2)
Summary: Deals with the law in Vienna, a law where a sexual relationship between unmarried people is punishable by death. 100 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 3542 Measure For Measure, Workshop 1
Summary: This program concentrates on Act II, scene 2, in which Isabella comes to plead with Angelo for her brother's life. Director John Brown asks what, and how much, each character can be said to reveal of themselves here. Through this highly focused rehearsal, it becomes possible to discover an Isabella far more passionate and far more complex than sometimes portrayed. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 3543 Measure For Measure, Workshop 2
Summary: In Act III, scene 1, Isabella comes to tell her brother Claudio that he must die, since she will not forfeit her chastity to save him. The emotional focus of this great scene is intense, and its poetry extremely complex and compressed. By working carefully through its most difficult moments, director John Russell Brown examines the extent to which actors can convey this emotion through gestures and language. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 1123 Merchant of Venice, The (Part 1)
Summary: A tragedy of prejudice, vengeance, and sacrifice. The money lender Shy lock demands his payment of a pound of flesh for a defaulted loan. 060 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1124 Merchant of Venice, The (Part 2)
Summary: A tragedy pf prejudice, vengeance, and sacrifice. The money lender Sky lock demands his payment of a pound of flesh for a defaulted loan. 053 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1125 Merchant of Venice, The (Part 3)
Summary: A tragedy of prejudice, vengeance, and sacrifice. The money lender Sky lock demands his payment of a pound of flesh for a defaulted loan. 060 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1091 Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Part 1)
Summary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's comedy, which brings together an assortment of sure fire theatrical elements: an inept con man, a jealous husband with a mischievous wife, a pair of young lovers, a dose of disguise, considerable slapstick, an elopement, and a fun filled conclusion. 054 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1092 Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Part 2)
Summary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's comedy, which brings together an assortment of sure fire theatrical elements: an inept con man, a jealous husband with a mischievous wife, a pair of young lovers, a dose of disguise, considerable slapstick, an elopement, and a fun filled conclusion. 054 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 2054 Metaphysical and Devotional Poetry
Summary: The power, vigor, audacity, & spiritual progression of John Donne are seen in examples of both his live poems & his intensely moving religious poems. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: SURVEY OF ENGLISH POETRY

VH 1213 Michael Josephson
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Michael Josephson, who discusses the loss of ethical standards and the philosophy of winning, greed, and self-interest in U.S. society today. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 7551 Michael Ondaatje: In Conversation With Caryl Phillips
Summary: Video of a reading from The Cinnamon, The English Patient, In The Skin Of A Lion, and Running In The Family as performed by Michael Ondaatje on December 17, 1996 in Los Angeles. 090 Min. VIDEO 1996

VH 1143 Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Summary: A play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers, and tradesmen - actors. Plots intertwine as we watch entangled love affairs; the comical performance of a "play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens, and the antics in fairyland among King Oberon, his Queen Titania and the frolicsome wee folk. 112 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1815 Mind of Patricia Smith Churchland, The
Summary: Patricia Churchland is a of professor philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. She is part of a new group of scientists & philosophers who are creating startling new theories of how the human mind works. The "wonder tissue" of the brain is their laboratory, and what they are discovering could change the way we think about ourselves & the world. 030 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1121 Much Ado About Nothing (Part 1)
Summary: A romantic comedy which involves an innocent, slandered heroine, who is denounced for unchastity by her intended bridegroom at their wedding. 108 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1122 Much Ado About Nothing (Part 2)
Summary: A romantic comedy which involves an innocent, slandered heroine, who is denounced for unchastity by her intended bridegroom at their wedding. 075 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 2015 Nabokov on Kafka
Summary: Christopher Plummer as Nabokov, providing an entertaining insight to " The Metamorphosis", Kafka's perplexing story about a man who woke up one morning to discover that he has turned into a beetle. 030 Min. VIDEO 1991 Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 8048 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Summary: Evaluates the authenticity of the earliest source, "The Confessions of Nat Turner", assembled by a white Virginia lawyer from jailhouse interviews. It then follows the controversy over the Nat Turner story played out through history. Alvin Poussaint and Ossie Davis recall how Nat Turner became a hero in the Black community. 058 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 2359 Oedipus Rex: Man & God III
Summary: Oedipus, subscribing to the worldly liberal thought infusing Greek civilizations, is beaten bay the gods. The play asserts that man, no matter how great his ability, is subordinate to God. 030 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE

VH 2088 Old King Log
Summary: OLD KING LOG--Claudius is persuaded to re-marry, for his children need a mother. 060 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS

VH 1115 Othello (Part 1)
Summary: The evil Lago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity. 106 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1116 Othello (Part 2)
Summary: The evil Lago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity. 105 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1081 Pericles (Parts 1 & 2)
Summary: The prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. 100 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1082 Pericles (Parts 3 & 4)
Summary: The prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. 080 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1201 Peter Berger
Summary: Peter Berger, professor of sociology and religion, compares capitalism in America and East Asia commenting on the social, philosophical, religious, and political factors that have influenced the development of capitalist economies in each area and discusses the relationship of capitalism to democracy. Interviewed by Bill Moyers. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ASIAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1550 Pickwick Papers, The
Summary: Based on the book by Charles Dickens. Dickens' classic of middle-aged bumblers on an adventure-filled tour of Britain. 109 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 3261 Poet Laureate Rita Dove
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize winner before she was 35, Rita Dove, at age 40, is the youngest poet to hold the post of Poet Laureate of the United States. In this program with Bill Moyers, Dove Talks about her life and work, the relationship between poetry and power, and her plan for taking poetry to the people. The program also features Dove reading extensive selections from her works (including her Pulitzer Prize winning collection THOMAS AND BEULAH) and in performance before an audience. 060 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: MOYERS COLLECTION, THE

VH 2084 Poison Is Queen & Some Justice
Summary: POISON IS QUEEN; As the emperor Augustus grows more senile, the brooding Tiberius bides his time until he can ascend the throne. SOME JUSTICE; But the victory of Tiberius and Livia is far from sweet. Too many people suspect conspiracy. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS

VH 2053 Prologue to Chaucer, A
Summary: Reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters & themes to everyday life in late 14th-century England. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS

VH 5243 Psychological Dialogue with Arthur Miller, part 1
Summary: Arthur Miller discusses the interplay between psychology and the creation of drama. Subjects include motivation, reactions to psychological analysis of the author, psychological impact on the audience, and attitudes toward psychological theories and methods. 050 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

VH 5244 Psychological Dialogue with Arthur Miller, part 2
Summary: Arthur Miller continues with his reactions to major personality theories, art vs. science, nature of the "message, " and reflections on contemporary problems. 051 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: PSYCHOLOGY

VH 2085 Queen Of Heaven & Reign Of Terror
Summary: QUEEN OF HEAVEN--The Emperor Tiberius revels in a life of eroticism, egged on by Agrippina's cunning son Caligula. REIGN OF TERROR--As Tiberius grows old and frail, he slowly begins killing off all the people who could succeed him. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS

VH 2360 Recovery of Oedipus, The IV
Summary: We see man as standing somewhere between God and beast, always searching for his rightful place. Real knowledge of life through the painful search for truth is revealed in this final film of the series. 030 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: DRAMA

VH 2055 Restoration and Augustan Poetry
Summary: The program features the Earl of Rochester's intellectual satire, the literary & political satire of Dryden, the nimble, dry, & Acerbic wit of Swift, & the dark & ferocious verse of Pope. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: SURVEY OF ENGLISH POETRY

VH 8263 Return from Silence: China's Revolutionary Writers
Summary: Interviews with five contemporary Chinese writers, Ai Qing, Ba Jin, Cao Yu, Ding Ling, and Mao Dun, who speak openly about their lives and writings. T heir work has had great impact on the emergence of modern China. Shows rare historical footage, including scenes of the May Fourth Movement (1919), the Land Re form (1949) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Also includes scenes from films made from the authors' works as well as biographical information on each o f the writers interviewed. 059 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 1087 Richard II (Part 1)
Summary: The story of a rebellion against the corrupt Richard II. 041 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1088 Richard II (Part 2)
Summary: The story of a rebellion against the corrupt Richard II. 108 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1095 Richard III (Part 1)
Summary: The action centers around the character of Richard of Gloucester, a self proclaimed villain who usurps the crown. Through family machinations, political marriages and military coups, this play portrays the tumultuous reign of King Edward IV and the ascension of Richard to the throne. 119 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1096 Richard III (Part 2)
Summary: The action centers around the character of Richard of Gloucester, a self proclaimed villain who usurps the crown. Through family machinations, political marriages and military coups, this play portrays the tumultuous reign of King Edward IV and the ascension of Richard to the throne. 119 Min. VIDEO 1982 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1419 Richard Wright's Fiction, An Introduction To
Summary: Richard Wright, the foremost black novelist of his time, was both the product and the chief antagonist of the racial injustice of twentieth-century American culture. Valerie Smith describes Wright's childhood experiences of poverty and oppression which he transmuted into art most successfully in his still-powerful and influential first novel, Native Son. 045 Min. VIDEO 1988

VH 0284 Robert Frost
Summary: A look at the life and poetry of Robert Frost which includes dramatized readings of his poetry, interviews with poets, colleagues, and friends plus excerpts of interviews and readings by Frost himself. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 0295 Robert Lowell
Summary: Exploration of the work and life of Robert Lowell through readings of his poetry illustrated by appropriate scenes and conversations with poets, friends and critics plus excerpts from interviews with Lowell himself. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 2056 Romantic Pioneers
Summary: The pioneers of British Romanticism, unrecognized in their own day, were Christopher Smart & William Blake. This program offers the charming touching & humorous address to his cat Jeoffry from Smart's "Jubilate Agno, " five poems by Blake, Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" - spoken in the Oriental splendor of Leighton House - & some Wordsworth that provides a superb example of his definition of poetry as emotion recollected in tranquillity. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: SURVEY OF ENGLISH POETRY

VH 2058 Romantics and Realists
Summary: The foundation of modern English poetry were laid by Hardy, Hopkins, Housman, & Kipling. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: SURVEY OF ENGLISH POETRY

VH 4109 Romeo and Juliet
Summary: The Best of the Pre-Olivier Shakespeare films. Norma Shearer received her fifth Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Juliet in this sumptuous 1936 MGM version of Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers. George Cukor directed, relying on dialogue that although truncated, is Shakespeare's. 126 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: SHAKESPEARE

VH 1085 Romeo and Juliet (Part 1)
Summary: Tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition fro m their families, and take their lives. 060 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1086 Romeo and Juliet (Part 2)
Summary: Tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives. 120 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 7026 Roots and Water, Part 1
Summary: Features Tatamkhulu Africa's poem "Nothing's Changed, " which describes the covert racism experienced by people of color in post-apartheid South Africa; Imtiaz Dharker's poems "Living Space" and "The Blessing." Includes readings by the poets, explications of their work, and creative dramatizations. 030 Min. VIDEO 1999 Series: POEMS FROM OTHER CULTURES AND TRADITIONS

VH 7027 Roots and Water, Part 2
Summary: This program features an excerpt from Sujata Bhatt's English/Gujarati poems "At the Flower Market" and Search for My Tongue." "Search for My Tongue" addresses the vital link between language and self. Fiona Farrell's poems "Orsula at Paekakariki" and "Charlotte O'Neil's Song." Includes readings by the poets, explications of their works, and creative dramatizations. 030 Min. VIDEO 2000 Series: POEMS FROM OTHER CULTURES AND TRADITIONS

VH 7028 Roots and Water, Part 3
Summary: Dilip Chitre showcases Arun Kolatkar's poem "An Old Woman, " which describes the transforming interaction between a tourist and an old woman in India. John Agard's Caribbean dialect poems "Rainbow" and "Half-Caste." The program includes readings by the poets, explications of their work, and creative dramatizations. 030 Min. VIDEO 2000 Series: POEMS FROM OTHER CULTURES AND TRADITIONS

VH 1215 Sara Lightfoot
Summary: Sara Lawrence Lightfoot is interviewed by Bill Moyers on American education and what makes good schools. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 3931 Saul Bellow
Summary: Saul Bellow talks about himself and his characters; his childhood, parents, and education; how he came to be a writer; his views of the world and the people who inhabit it; and the role of ideas in literature. 052 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: WRITERS

VH 2278 Sense and Sensibility
Summary: Jane Austen's first novel is the story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. One represents Sense, the other Sensibility. Through their relationships with men and each other, they realize that neither Sense nor Sensibility alone is enough, but that one must strive for a balance of the two. 174 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: DRAMA

VH 2279 Sense and Sensibility
Summary: See VH 2278. 174 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: DRAMA

VH 2926 Shakespeare And His Theatre: The Gentle Shakespeare
Summary: This program opens with the background from which Shakespeare emerged: the Stratford of his day, the school in which he studied, the opportunities he had to observe theatre, from the Coventry Mystery cycle in his youth to traveling actors' troupes. It proceeds to the London where he got work as an actor and became a dramatist. The program examines the breadth of his work and its enormous popularity in his day, and a great many of the words he made up. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: WRITERS, THEATRE, DRAMA

VH 2921 Shakespeare And His Theatre: The Globe
Summary: A fifth of London's population in the year 1600 were regular play goers. Examination of the Globe Theatre shows where they stood, how the stage was constructed, how the special effects so beloved of the audience were achieved, from thunder and lightning to fairies flying through the air and ghosts emerging from the earth. Rehearsals were minimal and there was no producer or director-just the play, the actors, and the audience. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: THEATRE

VH 2922 Shakespeare And The Globe
Summary: This program traces Shakespeare's life and work: the Elizabethan landmarks associated with his plays; the structure and workings of the Globe Theatre; historical sources of the plays; theatrical traditions that influenced Shakespeare; and sites associated with his origins. Some of the major dramatic motifs are shown through re-enactments of sections of the plays. Produced by Hugh Richmond; directed by Paul Shepard. 031 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: THEATRE

VH 2927 Shakespeare's Imagery: The Poet's Eye
Summary: This program enables its viewers to read Shakespeare with a better and deeper understanding. To illustrate Shakespeare's abundant and unique imagery, the program presents "visual quotations" from his work to show how "the poet's eye... gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." 016 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS

VH 2924 Shakespeare's Sonnets, Part 1
Summary: Fifteen sonnets selected for what they tell us about the poet-because of the individuals addressed (like W.H. or the Dark Lady), references to people or events (like the fall of Sir Walter Raleigh or the death of Queen Elizabeth), or because of their metaphors. The sonnets are read by Ben Kingsley, Roger Rees, Claire Bloom, and Jane Lapotaire, then analyzed by a noted critic or writer (analysts include A.L. Rowse, Leslie Fiedler, and Stephen Spender). 075 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: WRITERS

VH 2925 Shakespeare's Sonnets, Part 2
Summary: Fifteen sonnets selected for what they tell us about the poet-because of the individuals addressed (like W.H. or the Dark Lady), references to people or events (like the fall of Sir Walter Raleigh or the death of Queen Elizabeth), or because of their metaphors. The sonnets are read by Ben Kingsley, Roger Rees, Claire Bloom, and Jane Lapotaire, then analyzed by a noted critic or writer (analysts include A.L. Rowse, Leslie Fiedler, and Stephen Spender). 075 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: WRITERS

VH 2971 Shakespeare: The Word and the Action, Part 1-A
Summary: Lecture 1 Shakespeare's Wavelengths, Lecture 2 The Multiple Actions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lecture 3 The Form of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Lecture 4 Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets. 180 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: THEATRE, SHAKESPEARE

VH 2972 Shakespeare: The Word and the Action, Part 1-B
Summary: Lecture 5 Love and Artifice in Love's Labor's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, Lecture 6 As You Like It, Lecture 7 The Battles of Henry VI, Lecture 8 Richard III and the Renaissance. 180 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: THEATRE, SHAKESPEARE

VH 2973 Shakespeare: The Word and the Action, Part 2-A
Summary: Lecture 9 History and Family in Henry VI, Lecture 10 Action in Hamlet, Lecture 11 Coriolanus: The Hero Alone, Lecture 12 Change in Antony and Cleopatra. 180 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: THEATRE, SHAKESPEARE

VH 2974 Shakespeare: The Word and the Action, Part 2-B
Summary: Lecture 13 The Plot of Cymbeline, Lecture 14 Nature and Art in The Winter's Tale, Lecture 15 Three Kinds of Tempest, Lecture 16 History and Henry VIII. 180 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: THEATRE, SHAKESPEARE

VH 2923 Shakespearean Tragedy
Summary: Exploring the nature of tragedy and the Shakespearean tragic hero, this program is ideal viewing for students before they read any of the tragedies (particularly Hamlet and Macbeth), since is prepares them for Shakespeare's concepts of action, character, and catharsis. 040 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SHAKESPEARE

VH 1821 Stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, Parts 1 & 2
Summary: Maxine Hong Kingston is author of "The Woman Warrior", "China Men" & "Tripmaster Monkey". In this two-part conversation, she offers new images of America as a "melting pot" where the dutiful notions of the Puritans blend with the Monkey Spirit of the Orient to produce a new American consciousness. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, WRITERS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1229 Summing Up
Summary: Excerpts from Bill Moyers' interviews with 42 prominent representatives of a wide variety of disciplines who comment on cultural, political, and moral issues in American life today. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 0296 Sylvia Plath
Summary: Exploration of the life and poetry of Sylvia Plath through illustrated readings from her poetry and conversations with writers, poets, critics and her mother. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 0292 T.S. Eliot
Summary: Situations from the life of T.S. Eliot, with recitations from his poetry. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 1101 Taming of the Shrew, The (Part 1)
Summary: The marriage of two strong spirited people is the setting of a comic confrontation between the sexes. 055 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1102 Taming of the Shrew, The (Part 2)
Summary: The marriage of two strong spirited people is the setting of a comic confrontation between the sexes. 055 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1103 Taming of the Shrew, The (Part 3)
Summary: The marriage of two strong spirited people is the setting of a comic confrontation between the sexes. 060 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 4512 Tell About the South: the Story of Modern Southern Lit.
Summary: This is a discussion about 20th century writers from the southern part of the United States. Authors included are: Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Jean Toomer, and Thomas Wolfe. Narrated by: Rita Dove. Directed by: Ross Spears. 081 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: WRITERS

VH 3621 Tell Tale Heart, The
Summary: Edgar Allan Poe's carefully woven web of murder, investigation, and t he dreadful reality of betrayal from within. 030 Min. VIDEO 1971

VH 1099 Tempest (Part 1), The
Summary: This play revolves around an enchanted island, an exiled duke, young lovers and a framework of conspiracy as they affected dramatic and emotional romances. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1100 Tempest (Part 2), The
Summary: This play revolves around an enchanted island, an exiled duke, young lovers and a framework of conspiracy as they affected dramatic and emotional romances. 100 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 3537 Tempest, The
Summary: This presentation of Act IV - the masque scene - of the tempest provides the variety of drama suggested by the text: different kinds of speech and action, dance, music, song, pictorial effect; depth of thought, beauty, fright, and fun. The act shows two parts of the magical triumph of Prospero - the betrothal of Ferdinand and Miranda, and the defeat and punishment of Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 1132 Timon of Athens (Part 1)
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play which details transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope. 055 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1133 Timon of Athens (Part 2)
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play which details transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope. 050 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1134 Timon of Athens (Part 3)
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play which details transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope. 050 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1083 Titus Andronicus (Parts 1 & 2)
Summary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's tragedy set in Roman times dealing with the revenge of Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction. 060 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1084 Titus Andronicus (Parts 3 & 4)
Summary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's tragedy set in Roman times dealing with the revenge of Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction. 060 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1227 Tom Wolfe
Summary: In a conversation with Bill Moyers, Tom Wolfe discusses moral, intellectual, and political dimensions of life in America today. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 3962 Toni Morrison
Summary: This program introduces Toni Morrison, Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. Readings fro "Beloved" and "Jazz" show how she returns to the pain of slavery and segregation to restore wholeness to the black psyche. 029 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: WRITERS, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 4811 Toni Morrison
Summary: A leading figure in the movement for a new multicultural American literary canon, Toni Morrison says that American literature is incoherent without African American writers. 025 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, WRITERS, DRAMA Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 2082 Touch of Murder, A & Family Affairs
Summary: A TOUCH OF MURDER--The Emperor Augustus rules the Roman empire but is ruled himself by his scheming second wife Livia. FAMILY AFFAIRS--For nine years Livia seethes, waiting for the chance to get even. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS

VH 1108 Troilus and Cressida (Part 1)
Summary: About two lovers caught in the vicissitudes of the Trojan War. 130 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1109 Troilus and Cressida (Part 2)
Summary: About two lovers caught in the vicissitudes of the Trojan War. 128 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 3538 Twelfth Night
Summary: Twelfth Night is a play that has retained all of its comic freshness over the years. But how is the comedy conveyed, and does it relate to the serious, dark, and sometimes violent themes and scenes in the play? In this program, a group of experienced Shakespearean actors first read through, and then rehearse, Act II, scene 3, one of the funniest scenes in the play. This rehearsal culminates in a run through of the scene, showing how the discoveries of the workshop are brought into the play. 025 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOPS

VH 1141 Twelfth Night (Part 1)
Summary: An aristocratic country house and its inhabitants set the stage for a portrayal of the varieties of love. 055 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1142 Twelfth Night (Part 2)
Summary: An aristocratic country house and its inhabitants set the stage for a portrayal of the varieties of love. 055 Min. VIDEO 1979 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1145 Two Gentlemen of Verona (Part 1)
Summary: A romantic comedy filled with complications in which two good friends find themselves in love with Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, who has promised her to another. 060 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1146 Two Gentlemen of Verona (Part 2)
Summary: A romantic comedy filled with complications in which two good friends find themselves in love with Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, who has promised her to another. 065 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 5769 Understanding Literature and Life, Part 1a, Lectures 1 - 5
Summary: 1. Why Literature? Civilization and Its Discontents, 2. "Oedipus the King" and the Nature of Greek Tragedy, 3. Fate and Free Will: Reading the Signs in "Oedipus, 4. Self-Making vs. Self-Discovery in "Oedipus", 5. The Interpretive Afterlife of "Oedipus". 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: DRAMA, SHAKESPEARE Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5770 Understanding Literature and Life, Part 1a, Lectures 6 - 10
Summary: 6. Shakespeare's "Othello": Tragedy of Marriage and State, 7. Poison in the Ear, or the Dismantling of Othello, 8. Rethinking "Othello": Race, Gender, and Subjectivity, 9. French Theater and Moliere's Comedy of Vices, 10. "Tartuffe" and Varieties of Posture. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: DRAMA, SHAKESPEARE Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5771 Understanding Literature and Life, Part 1b, Lectures 11 - 15
Summary: 11. Religious Hypocrisy: Beyond Comedy, 12. George Buchner: Physician, Revolutionary, Playwright, 13. Woyzeck and the Proletarian Murderer: "Unaccommodated Man", 14 "Woyzeck" and Visionary Theater, 15. Strindberg's "Father": Patriarchy in Trouble. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: DRAMA Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5772 Understanding Literature and Life, Part 1b, Lectures 16 - 20
Summary: 16. Marriage: Theatrical Agon or Darwinian Struggle?, 17. "The Father": From Theater of Power to Power of Theater, 18. Beckett's "Godot": Chaplinesque or Post-Nuclear?, 19. Beckett and the Comedy of Undoing, 20. Godot Absent; Didi and Gogo Present. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: DRAMA Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5773 Understanding Literature and Life, Part 2a, Poetry, Lec.21-25
Summary: 21. Study of Literature: Approaches, Encounters, Departures, 22. Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Glory of Poetry, 23. The Shape of Love and Death in Shakespeare's Sonnets, 24. Innocence and Experience in William Blake, 25. Blakean Fables of Desire. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5774 Understanding Literature and Life, Part 2a, Poetry Lec.26-30
Summary: 26. Blake: Visionary Poet, 27. Whitman and the Making of an American Bard, 28. "Myself" as Whitman's 19th Century American Hero, 29. Form and Flux, Openness and Anxiety in Whitman's Poetry, 30. Emily Dickinson: The Prophetic Voice from the Margins. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: SHAKESPEARE Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5775 Understanding Literature and Life, Pt.2b, Poetry Lec. 31-35
Summary: These lectures (31-40) begin with Dickinson and Baudelaire and move into the 20th century with Frost, Stevens and Adrienne Rich. Lecture 31: Dickinson and the Poetry of Consciousness. Lecture 32: Dickinson: Death and Beyond. Lecture 33: Baudelaire: The Setting of the Romantic Sun. Lecture 34: Baudelaire's Poetry of Modernism and Metropolis. Lecture 35: Robert Frost: The Wisdom of the People. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5776 Understanding Literature and Life, Pt.2b, Poetry Lec. 36-40
Summary: These lectures (31-40) begin with Dickinson and Baudelaire and move into the 20th century with Frost and Adrienne Rich. Lecture 36: Frost: The Darker View. Lecture 37: Wallace Stevens and the Modernist Movement. Lecture 38: Stevens and the Post-Romantic Imagination. Lecture 39: Adrienne Rich and the Poetry of Protest. Lecture 40: Rich's Project: Diving into the Wreck of Western Culture. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 155 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5777 Understanding Literature and Life, Pt.3a, Narrative Lec. 41-46
Summary: Lecture 41: The Lives of the Word: Reading Today. Lecture 42: Chretien de Troyes' Yvain: Growing Up in the Middle Ages. Lecture 43: Yvain's Theme: Ignorant Armies Clash By Night. Lecture 44: The Picaresque Novel: Satire, Filth and Hustling. Lecture 45: Francisco Quevedo's Swindler: The Word on the Street. Lec.46: Daniel Defoe's Plain Style and the New World Order. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 188 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5778 Understanding Literature and Life, Pt.3a, Narrative, Lec.47-52
Summary: Lecture 47: Moll Flanders and the Self-Made Woman. Lecture 48: Matter and Spirit in DeFoe. Lecture 49: Dickens: The Novel as Moral Institution. Lecture50: Pip's Progress: From Blacksmith to Snob and Back. Lecture 51: Riddles of Identity in Great Expectations. Lecture 52: Charlotte Bronte and the Bildungsroman. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 188 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5779 Understanding Literature and Life, Pt.3b, Narrative, Lec.53-58
Summary: Lecture 53: Jane Eyre: Victorian Bad Girl Makes Good. Lecture 54: The Madwoman in the Attic: 19th-Century Bills Coming Due. Lecture 55: Melville's "Bartleby" and the Genesis of Character. Lecture 56: "Bartleby": Christ on Wall Street. Lecture 57: Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis": Sacrifice or Power Game? Lecture 58: Kafka's "In the Penal Colony": The Writing Machine. 190 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 5780 Understanding Literature and Life, Pt.3b, Narrative, Lec.59-64
Summary: Lecture 59: Faulkner's "The Bear": Stories of White and Black. Lecture 60: "The Bear": American Myth or American History? Lecture 61: Tracking the Bear, or Learning to Read. Lecture 62: Alice Walker's Celie: The Untold Story. Lecture 63: Ideology as Vision in The Color Purple. Lecture 64: Reconceiving Center and Margin. Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein, Brown University. 190 Min. VIDEO 1997 Series: GREAT COURSES ON TAPE

VH 1211 Vartan Gregorian
Summary: Vartan Gregorian, head of the New York Public Library, talks about the increase in the amount of information and knowledge in our work and the affect of this increase on education and learning. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, DEC. & INF. SYS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2057 Victorian Poetry
Summary: The Victorian Age was a great age of elegies, of poems of death & love & death in love; it was also the first age in which women played a significant role as published poets. 028 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: SURVEY OF ENGLISH POETRY

VH 7964 Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Summary: Intercuts scenes from a dramatization of Mrs. Dalloway with a portrayal of Virginia Woolf (played by Eileen Atkins) who, based on entries from her diary, explicates the story. Literary critic Hermione Lee addresses topics in the novel such as the significance of shared external events and the theme of emotional bankruptcy. 058 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: WRITERS

VH 2083 Waiting In The Wings & What Shall We Do About Claudius
Summary: WAITING IN THE WINGS--After eight years in exile, Livia's son Tiberius has not escaped his mother's iron will. WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT CLAUDIUS--Only one obstacle remains before Tiberius can reach the royal destiny that Livia desires. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS

VH 0293 Wallace Stevens
Summary: Situations from the life of Wallace Stevens, with recitations from his poetry. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 0287 Walt Whitman
Summary: Illustrated readings from the poetry and writings of Walt Whitman with insights into his poetry contributed by today's poets and Whitman biographers. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 1850 Walt Whitman
Summary: Whitman, bard of the common man, sought to express America & his love for her in his poetry. Because American poetry had been an elitist art form & not a popular form of expression, Whitman had to create a whole new poetic language, using ordinary words & everyday speech rhythms, to paint a personal verbal portrait of his country as it changed from an agrarian to a tumultuous industrial society. 012 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS

VH 7289 Willa Cather
Summary: A trio of scholars and historians examine the record of events of western expansion, life on the plains and the Progressive Era via the writings of Willa Cather. 151 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: U.S. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, WRITERS

VH 0289 William Carlos Williams
Summary: Situations from the life of William Carlos Williams, with recitations from his poetry. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 1226 William Julius Wilson
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Dr. William Julius Wilson who discusses the problems of the inner city, the underclass, and public policy in the United States. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, AFRICAN-AMERICAN Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 1129 Winter's Tale, The (Part 1)
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play about a king who unjustly accuses his wife of adultery. Sixteen years later, their daughter, missing since infancy, is miraculously restored and reconciled with her dead mother, who is brought back to life again. 058 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1130 Winter's Tale, The (Part 2)
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play about a king who unjustly accuses his wife of adultery. Sixteen years later, their daughter, missing since infancy, is miraculously restored and reconciled with her dead mother, who is brought back to life again. 060 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1131 Winter's Tale, The (Part 3)
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play about a king who unjustly accuses his wife of adultery. Sixteen years later, their daughter, missing since infancy, is miraculously restored and reconciled with her dead mother, who is brought back to life again. 060 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: SHAKESPEARE, THEATRE Series: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS

VH 1822 Writer's Work with Toni Morrison, A Parts 1 & 2
Summary: In part I, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, & the power of love to illuminate both. In part II, Toni Morrison discusses the African-American presence in American literature, from the silence of the black voice in the 19th century work to the ability today to discuss the presence of racism. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIOLOGY, WRITERS Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 4841 Yeats Remembered
Summary: This program explores the life and poetry of William Butler Yeats. It includes interviews with the poet's children and excerpts from interviews with the poet which were broadcast by the BBC. 034 Min. VIDEO 1975

VH 7917 Yehuda Amichai
Summary: Interviews and poetry readings with Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai as part of a seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library at Georgetown University. Recorded at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 1989. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS Series: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES, NO. 10

VH 2086 Zeus, By Jove & Hail Who?
Summary: ZEUS, BY JOVE!--On the brink of death, Tiberius names Caligula as heir to the Roman throne. HAIL WHO?--Caligula turns the imperial palace into a brothel, with orgies and gambling. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, THEATRE Series: I, CLAUDIUS