Great American authors since 1650
(DVD)

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Contributors

Gordon, Scott.
Meyer, Ronald.
Kaczmarek, Jane.
Keasley, Alphonse.
Roche, Jane Simms.

Status

Movie (Informational) - North Wing Basement
810.9 G7981
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Format

DVD

Physical Desc

4 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

UPC

739815003790, 739815004001, 739815004018, 739815004025, 739815004032

Notes

General Note

Originally broadcast as a television documentary series on Public Television.

General Note

Special features of these DVDs: gallery of authors ; teachers guide with blackline master quiz ; graphics ; tmeline ; recommended reading lists.

Creation/Production Credits

Consultants, Kayann Short, Alphonse Keasley Jr. ; original music, David Arkenstone ; videography, Ron Arrowsmith ... [et al.] ; editors, Kenny James ... [et al.] ; graphics, Heather Strobino.

Participants/Performers

Host, Jane Kaczmarek ; narrators, Alphonse Keasley, Jane Simms Roche.

Description

Presents the lives and literary output of more than 60 of America's most read authors in concise, stand-alone segments presented in chronological order.

Target Audience

Not rated.

System Details

DVD.

Language

Audio track in English ; subtitled in Spanish ; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Table of Contents

Program 1: Great American authors 1650-1845: 1650, Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet

1702, Cotton Mather publishes The ecclesiastical history of New England

1773 Phillis Wheatley becomes America's first black woman poet

1819, Washington Irving publishes Rip van Winkle

1826, James Fenimore Cooper publishes The last of the Mohicans

1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson initiates American transcendentalism with Nature

1845, Edgar Allan Poe publishes The raven.

Program 2: Great American authors 1846-1855: 1846, Henry David Thoreau originates America's proud history of civil disobedience

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The scarlet letter

1851, Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published

1852, Emily Dickinson publishes first poem

1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's cabin

1855, Frederick Douglass publishes My bondage and my freedom

1855, Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of grass

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes The song of Hiawatha.

Program 3: Great American authors 1856-1906: 1868, Louisa May Alcott writes Little women

1878, Henry James writes Daisy Miller

1885, Mark Twain publishes The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1906, Upton Sinclair's novel The jungle is published

1906, The whole country speaks ; Stephen Crane ; O. Henry ; Theodore Dreiser ; Willa Cather ; Jack London ; Sherwood Anderson are authors whose writings spanned the scope of the nation from coast to coast.

Program 4: Great American authors 1907-1925: 1913, poet William Carlos Williams publishes his first book of poems, The tempers

1914, Carl Sandburg publishes his poem Chicago

1920, Edith Wharton wins a Pulitzer Prize for The age of innocence

1922, The innovators ; e.e. cummings ; Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot ; Henry Miller

1923, Robert Frost publishes Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

1925, F. Scott Fizgerald writes The great Gatsby.

Program 5: Great American authors 1926-1939: 1929, Thomas Wolfe writes Look homeward angel

1929, William Faulkner showcases the South with The sound and the fury

1930, Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

1931, Pearl Buck writes The good Earth

1936, playwright Eugene O'Neill wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1939, Steinbeck writes The grapes of wrath.

Program 6: Great American authors 1940-1949: 1940, Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls is published

1941, James Thurber writes The secret life of Walter Mitty

1947-1953, the era of popular science fiction ; Robert Heinlein ; Isaac Asimov ; Ray Bradbury

1948, Tennessee Williams wins his first Pulitzer Prize for A street car named Desire

1949, Arthur Miller produces Death of a salesman.

Program 7: Great American authors 1950-1957: 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize

1951, setting the stage for the Baby Boomer Generation ; J.D. Salinger ; Sylvia Plath

1952, speaking for the American black male ; Ralph Ellison ; James Baldwin

1957, Jack Kerouac begins the Beat Generation in American literature

1957, Dr. Seuss writes The cat in the hat.

Program 8: Great American authors 1958-present: 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play A raisin in the sun is produced

1961, Joseph Heller writes Catch-22

1966, Truman Capote writes In cold blood

1969, Kurt Vonnegut writes Slaughterhouse five

1982, John Updike's Rabbit is rich wins Pulitzer Prize for literature

1989, Asian American Amy Tan publishes The joy luck club

1993, redefining the black experience ; Toni Morrison ; Alice Walker ; August Wilson

2007, Cormac McCarthy wins the Pulitzer Prize for The road.

Subjects

LC Subjects

American literature -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- 18th century.
Authors, American -- 19th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Gordon, S., Meyer, R., Kaczmarek, J., Keasley, A., Roche, J. S., Bradstreet, A., Mather, C., Wheatley, P., Cooper, J. F., Poe, E. A., Thoreau, H. D., Dickinson, E., Stowe, H. B., Douglass, F., Longfellow, H. W., Alcott, L. M., James, H., Twain, M., Sinclair, U., Crane, S., Henry, O., Cather, W., Dreiser, T., Anderson, S., Williams, W. C., Wharton, E., Cummings, E. E. 1., Pound, E., Eliot, T. S. 1., Miller, H., Fitzgerald, F. S. 1., Wolfe, T., Lewis, S., Buck, P. S. 1., O'Neill, E., Steinbeck, J., Hemingway, E., Thurber, J., Heinlein, R. A. 1., Bradbury, R., Miller, A., Brooks, G., Salinger, J. D. 1., Ellison, R., Baldwin, J., Kerouac, J., Seuss, D., Hansberry, L., Heller, J., Capote, T., Vonnegut, K., Updike, J., Tan, A., Wilson, A., McCarthy, C., Frost, R., London, J., Walker, A., Whitman, W., Williams, T., Faulkner, W., Plath, S., Morrison, T., Irving, W., Emerson, R. W., Hawthorne, N., Melville, H., Sandburg, C., & Asimov, I. (2007). Great American authors since 1650 . Ambrose Video Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Scott. Gordon et al.. 2007. Great American Authors Since 1650. Ambrose Video Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Scott. Gordon et al.. Great American Authors Since 1650 Ambrose Video Publishing, 2007.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Gordon, Scott., et al. Great American Authors Since 1650 Ambrose Video Publishing, 2007.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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