Bibliograph

Tell about the South, the story of modern Southern literature, written, produced and directed by Ross Spears

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Tell about the South, the story of modern Southern literature, written, produced and directed by Ross Spears

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Tell about the South

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

703670490

Responsibility statement

written, produced and directed by Ross Spears

Runtime

Series statement

Voices in black and white, the history of modern Southern literature

Sub title

the story of modern Southern literature

Summary

Presented is the rapid development of Southern American literature during the first half of the 20th century. Explored is the work of William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Erskine Caldwell, Margaret Mitchell, John Crowe Ransom, and others. Dramatized readings help to illuminate passages from Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God; Toomer's Cane; Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!; Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; and Ransom's Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Story of modern Southern literatureSouthern literature, 1915-1940

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