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Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,080 min.) in 3 containers : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 209 pages ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
Professor John M. Bowers discusses why some works and not others become part of the literary canon. He examines the context of the works, and how academic curriculum perpetuates and changes the development of the canon.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1,440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 306 pages ; 22 cm).
Language
English
Description
In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.
4) Tell a story, make a friend: easy to learn stories for young children and storytellers of all ages
Publisher
Bell Farm Recordings
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Provides a demonstration of storytelling using original adaptations of traditional children's folk tales.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie ranks as one of the most successful writers of all time. Combining rare access to Christie's family and her personal archive, the show gives viewers a never-before-seen look into the late crime writer's fascinating life story.
Retraces the celebrated English writer's footsteps across the England. With access to both her family and those who lived with her and knew her best.
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's The Lion King are Wild about Safety. With their Safety Smart checklist in hand, the two friends inspect a possible new home to make sure it is a safe place to live. Their investigation turns up plenty of safety problems, and in the end Timon and Pumbaa decide there's no place better than the home they're in now. Students in kindergarten through third grade join the lovable characters and discover the importance of always...
8) Muse of fire
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"A documentary on the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience."--Container
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) in 1 container : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each on Dante's famous poem. Includes portraits, photographs, maps, and diagrams.
Publisher
Films Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
This episode of Clash of the Gods presents the real story behind our most renowned modern myth - that classic story of good vs. evil, fought in the world of Middle Earth. We enter creator J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastical world of hobbits, orcs, and wizards, and uncover the real life influences that shaped his epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. Intriguing connections and parallels are drawn from this epic saga to the battlefields of World War I and the...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (417 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The series begins with Jeremy, Richard and James embarking on a monster three-part US road trip which starts with America's greatest driving road and ends with a race through New York. Later in the series Jeremy subjects the Skoda Yeti to a remarkably thorough road test while James May makes a rare visit to the test track in the insane Aerial Atom V8. The boys also head to Albania to test the super luxurious Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercedes S65 AMG,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.
Publisher
distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Operation Homecoming is a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American troops through their written words, and offers a profound window into the human side of the war being fought in Iraq. The film evolved out of a National Endowment for the Arts project that gathered the writing of soldiers and their families who have participated in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interviews and dramatic readings by such actors as Robert...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
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