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bibliography biography Educational films. History Internet videos. Juvenile works Videorecording.Summary: This dramatization of Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens with Jakob Engstrand attempting to convince Regina, his daughter and a maid in the Alving household, to come work for him. She refuses, happy with her position in a proper household, but we are soon introduced to scandal and moral debate when we learn from Mrs. Alving that Regina is actually the daughter of the philandering late Mr. Alving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This overview of Henrik Ibsen's life and writing from the Famous Authors series contextualizes Ibsen's upbringing in tight-knit, strictly religious communities in isolated Norway. As a young man, he left his family home in a desire to break away from the staid and religious environment, and worked toward university and made friends that supported his talents. While he failed to pass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program from the Famous Authors series takes a close look at the life and literature of Franz Kafka. Contextualizing Kafka's upbringing in turn-of the-century Prague, the video illuminates how the politics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and coming from a Jewish family shaped his life. Young friends Hugo Bergmann and Oskar Pollak were important influences and the first readers for the young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A woman risks everything to follow her heart in this contemporary dramatization of Leo Tolstoy’s powerful epic of passion, morality, and betrayal. Helen McCrory stars as literature’s most tragic adulteress, with Kevin McKidd as the dashing Count Vronsky and Stephen Dillane as Anna Karenina’s cold-hearted husband. But the star behind the stars is screenwriter Allan Cubitt, who brings out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: This program from the Famous Authors series provides an overview of the life and writings of Victor Hugo, author of the novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. The video contextualizes Hugo's childhood as the son of an officer in Napoleon's army during the French Revolution. As a schoolboy, Hugo began cultivating his talents as a journalist and poet, and his older brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this program from the Famous Authors series, the audience is offered an overview of the life and work of Emile Zola, starting with an introduction to the writer's parents and his important boyhood friendship with Paul Cezanne. The film discusses Zola's attachment to themes of nature and liberty. Eventually he was hired by the French publisher Hachette and began gaining social and literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Balis, Andrea
Summary: "A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024