Summary: This overview of the biography and fiction of William Faulkner from the Famous Authors series introduces the major themes of Faulkner's poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The film contextualizes life in the American south in the first half of the 20th century; Faulkner's southern upbringing, family history, and race relations in the wake of the Civil War were a major influence on his...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This beautiful and exceptionally insightful documentary offers a critical key to understanding one of America's foremost writers. The face Faulkner in his lifetime showed the world was no more than a fictional construct, or a series of contradictory roles: gallant war hero, moody poet, hard-drinking man's drinking man, dandy, gentleman farmer, exemplary husband, and father. This program probes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008