| Series | Title | Time | Year_Copyrighted | Call_Cat | Producer | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIME CESAIRE | A VOICE FOR HISTORY - PART 1 THE VIGILANT ISLAND | 54 | 1994 | Media PQ3949.C44 A45 1994 VCV |
This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term negritude and launched the movement called the Great Black Cry. This three part study features many of the most important and artistic intellectual figures of the past six decades. | |
| AIME CESAIRE | A VOICE FOR HISTORY - PART 2 WHERE THE EDGES OF CONQUEST MEET | 59 | 1994 | MEDIA PQ3949.C44 A45 1994 VCV |
This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term negritude and launched the movement called the Great Black Cry. This three part study features many of the most important and artistic intellectual figures of the past six decades. | |
| AIME CESAIRE | A VOICE FOR HISTORY - PART 3 THE STRENGTH TO FACE TOMORROW | 50 | 1994 | MEDIA PQ3949.C44 A45 1994 vcv |
This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term negritude and launched the movement called the Great Black Cry. This three part study features many of the most important and artistic intellectual figures of the past six decades. | |
| ACHEBE, CHINUA | 28 | 1988 | MEDIA PR6051.C5Z65 1988 VCV | PBS VIDEO | Bill Moyers interviews Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebewho calls for greater understanding of Africa, noting that colonialism in no way prepared the continent for democracy since colonialism is not a democratic form of rule. Achebe speaks... | |
| AESOP'S FABLES | 41 | 198- | MEDIA PA3855.S6F3 1980Z CASS | EDUCATIONAL AUDIO VISUAL INC. | El perro en el pesebre -- El lobo disfrazado de oveja -- jardinero y su perro -- El pescador y el pececito -- Laasamblea de ratones -- El mosquito y el toro -- Las dos ranas --El calvo caballero andante -- El novillo y el buey -- Hercules... | |
| AESOP'S FABLES | 41 | 198- | MEDIA PA3855.S6F3 1980Z CASS SCRIPT |
EDUCATIONAL AUDIO VISUAL INC. | El perro en el pesebre -- El lobo disfrazado de oveja -- jardinero y su perro -- El pescador y el pececito -- Laasamblea de ratones -- El mosquito y el toro -- Las dos ranas --El calvo caballero andante -- El novillo y el buey -- Hercules... | |
| ALICE WALKER READS | 36 | 1981 | MEDIA PS3573.A425A4 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Following a brief introduction to her life and work, author Walker reads her short story, Nineteen Fifty-Five, which is a fictional account of the exploitation of Black music by white musicians. | |
| ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT | 132 | 1995 | MEDIA PN1997.A365 1995 VCV | MCA HOME VIDEO | Based on Erich Maria Remarque's timeless anti-war novel, this film (the original) follows a group of German recruits during World War I as they go from patriotism to disillusionment. | |
| ALL THE KING'S MEN | 109 | 1985 | MEDIA PN1997.A37 1985 VCV | COLUMBIA | A dynamic backwoods lawyer batters his way into the governor's mansion, where he uses his unprincipled charm to become a brutal dictator. | |
| ALLENDE, ISABEL | 28 | 1991 | MEDIA PQ8098.1.L54Z56 1991 VCV | COMPASS FILMS | Chilean author Isabel Allende talks about her book, "The stories of Eva Luna." | |
| ALMOS' A MAN | 51 | 198- | MEDIA PN1997.A4 1980Z VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO | Faced with the prospect of working to pay for a mule he has accidentally killed, a teenage farm worker, armed with vague notions of manhood, escapes from the farm. | |
| ANDRE DUBUS INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 36 | 1984 | MEDIA PS3554.U265A46 | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Interviewer Kay Bonetti discusses with Dubus his way of writing and editing and Dubus also volunteers some personal anecdotes. Discusses his reasons for writing short stories and novellas. | |
| ANGELOU, MAYA I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS | 179 | 1986 | MEDIA PS3551.N464I15 1986 CASS | RANDOM HOUSE AUDIOBOOKS | ||
| APPROACHING LITERATURE: CARYL CHURCHILLS TOP GIRLS (PART 1) | MEDIA PR 6053 .786 T66 1996 VCV |
Explores Caryl Churchill's play about the deliberate choices women must make about their own presentation for advancement in a patriarchal world. Includes commentary before the play and interviews with the playwright, director and cast members after the play. | ||||
| APPROACHING LITERATURE: CARYL CHURCHILLS TOP GIRLS (PART 2) | MEDIA PR 6053.H786 T66 1996 VCV |
Explores Caryl Churchill's play about the deliberate choices women must make about their own presentation for advancement in a patriarchal world. Includes commentary before the play and interviews with the playwright, director and cast members after the play. | ||||
| ART OF THE ESSAY, FROM FRANCIS BACON TO STEPHEN LEACOCK. . . | 89 | 1974 | MEDIA PR1363.A7 CASS | CAEDMON | A dissertation on roast pig--on falling in love--on getting up in the mornings--A, B, and C: the human element in mathematics. | |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN | 110 | 1991 | MEDIA PN1997.A87 1991 VCV | UAV HOME VIDEO | The story of the life of a black Louisiana woman, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-civil war south to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of 110. | |
| BARN BURNING | 41 | 1980 | MEDIA PS3511.A86B27 1980 VCV | CORONET | Based on the story of the same title by William Faulkner, about the son of a tenant farmer who must choose between his aversion to playing his father's accomplice in violent acts against their landowners and his desire to win his father's... | |
| BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE | 105 | 1989 | MEDIA PQ2603.E362Z88 1989 VCV | INTERAMA VIDEO CLASSICS | A documentary portrait of Simon de Beauvoir's life. She speaks candidly about her relationship with Jean Paul Sartre. | |
| BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR | 49 | 1986 | MEDIA PN1997.B47 1986 VCV | MONTERY HOME VIDEO | A young flapper bobs her hair to gain peer approval, but her plan backfires. | |
| BLUE HOTEL | 55 | 1994 | MEDIA PS1449.C85B65 1974 VCV | CORONET FILMS & VIDEO | Based on the short story by Stephen Crane, about a stranger in a small Nebraska Town in the 1880's, showing the complicity of every person in his own fate and the fate of others. | |
| BOBBIE ANN MASON INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 49 | 1985 | MEDIA PS3563.A7877Z6 1985 | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Short story and novel writer Bobbie Ann Mason talks about her academic training and career, and mentions some major influences on her style in this interview conducted by Kay Bonetti. The author also discusses elitism, and why she is interest. | |
| BOBBIE ANN MASON READS EXCERPTS FROM IN COUNTRY | 58 | 1985 | MEDIA PS3563.A7877I52 1985 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | ||
| BOWLES, PAUL, 1910- (DELICATE PREY) PAUL BOWLES READS THE... | 1974 | MEDIA PS3552.O874D45 1974 CASS | SPOKEN ARTS, INC. | |||
| CANNERY ROW | 120 | 1982 | MEDIA PN1997 .J66 1993 VCV | METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER | Set in a seedy California town that once harbored a thriving fishing industry, a marine biologist and young runaway find themselves and romance amid an assortment of hapless characters. | |
| CENTURY OF WOMEN, A - TAPE 1,2,3 | 285 | 1994 | MEDIA HQ1426.C45 1994 VCV | TBS PRODUCTIONS AND VU PRODUCTIONS, INC. | A fictional family talks about their own lives and weaves in the factual stories of women in 20th century America and how they changed the course of American history. | |
| CHILDHOOD, THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PLACE | 41 | 1982 | MEDIA PS3553.R46H3 CASS | HARRY CREWS | A brief introduction to his life and work, author Crews reads episodes, including the burning accident & the hog butchering incident, from his book, A childhood, the biography of a place, which is about growing up in Bacon County, Ga., during... | |
| CHINUA ACHEBE: AFRICA'S VOICE | 61 | 1999 | MEDIA PR9387.9.A3.Z513 1999 | TRIDENT COMMUNICATIONS | This program analyzes the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on world literature, as well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation of African writers. Dr. Achebe, professors Abiola Irele and Gerald Graff, and Charles Larson, editor of the anthology Under African Skies, discuss the characterization, social implications, and levels of interpretation of Things Fall Apart. Vital concepts indigenous to the Ibos of southeastern Nigeria such as oral culture, reincarnation, and negotiations concepts essential to a deep understanding of the novels are also presented. | |
| CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN ART | 198- | MEDIA N7760.C52 1980Z SL | DAYTON PRESS | Scenes from classical mythology as seen through the eyes of artists. | ||
| CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A | 138 | 1971 | MEDIA PN1997.C56 1991 VCV | WARNER BROS. | In the near-future young Alex is conditioned against violence and sex, but also loses his free will. | |
| CONRACK | 111 | 1990 | MEDIA PN1997.C67 1990 VCV | PLAYHOUSE VIDEO | Using creative methods to teach black 5th to 8th graders in a rural S. Carolina school, idealistic teacher Conroy gradually wins over his students. | |
| CRAFT OF WRITING AND REWRITING THE SHORT STORY MADDEN | 1979 | MEDIA PN6120.2.M23 1979 CASS | J. NORTON PUBLISHERS | |||
| CREATING THE NOVEL | 78 | 1972 | MEDIA PN441-CASS | THE WRITER'S VOICE | ||
| CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY | 630 | 1992 | MEDIA PR9369.3.P37.C78 1992 | |||
| DISPLACED PERSON, THE | 58 | 1986 | MEDIA PN1997.D57 1986 VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO | Portrays the difficulties of integration experienced by a Polish refugee who arrives with his family at a Georgia farm in the 1940s. | |
| DON QUIXOTE | 76 | 1935 | MEDIA PQ6323.A9P3 VCV | NELSON FILMS LIMITED AND VANDOR FILM | With the aid of his squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote attempts to redress the wrongs of the world. French production with English dialogue. | |
| DON QUIXOTE | 1984 | MEDIA PQ6329.A3 1984 CASS | THE GLOBE RADIO REPERTORY | |||
| DYLAN THOMAS READING QUITE EARLY ONE MORNING AND OTHER MEMOR | 55 | 1960 | MEDIA PR6039.H52A6 1960 CASS | CAEDMON | ||
| DYLAN THOMAS READS HIS COMPLETE RECORDED STORIES & HUMOROUS | 177mins | 1972 | MEDIA PR6039.H52A6 1972 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | ||
| Edward Said | 40 | 1998 | MEDIA PN51.E38 1998 VCV | Edward Said discusses his postcolonial theory and how it applies to modern culture, from politics to literature. He exposes the Western image of the East as an artificial construct that is still retained today. He discusses Palestine as a politically expedient construct of Europe;argues the right of Palestine to exist as an independent, self-governing nation; and traces the origins of European attitudes toward the Arab world through the literature of E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Chinua Achebe. | ||
| ELIE WIESEL - FIRST PERSON SINGULAR | ELIE WIESEL | 60 | 2002 | MEDIA PQ 2683.I32 Z462 2002 VCV |
PBS HOME VIDEO | Sighet, Elie Wiesels 1928 birthplace, still survives a town in northern Romania near the meeting of the Hungarian and Ukrainian borders. But its character was irreversibly changed by the Holocaust. Where once it was a predominantly Jewish community of some 15,000 souls, today only a handful remain. But photos of the old city have survived, some in family collections, including those preserved by Elie Wiesel and his surviving sisters. Others have been contributed to the photo archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., most of them recovered from the work of an unknown Jewish studio photographer who, from 1920 to 1939, recorded images of the town and the life of its Jewish community. It is the recovery of those photos that makes this visit to pre-war Sighet possible. |
| EMMA | 257 | 1996 | MEDIA PR4034.E55 1996 VCV | FOX VIDEO | Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others. | |
| EMPIRE OF THE N. SHORES; HERE KING HAROLD IS KILLED VIKINGS! | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA DL65.V55 1988 PT. 9-10 VCV | KTCA | The empire of the northern shores: Examines the great northern Viking empire that reigned for a period of less than thirty years. At this time, most of England, Denmark and Norway were under the rule of one Viking, King Canute the Great... | |
| ENGLAND AT BAY; BITTER IS THE WIND VIKINGS! PT. 5-6 | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA DL65.V55 1988 PT. 5-6 VCV | KTCA | England at bay: Follows the Danish Vikings as they invade England and conquer every kingdom except for Wessex. After their defeat at the Battle of Edington a treaty allowed the Danes to keep eastern England. Bitter is the wind: The Norwegian... | |
| ESSAY ON EDUCATION AND SELF-RELIANCE | 58 | 1972 | MEDIA PS1614.E88 1972 CASS | CAEDMON RECORDS | ||
| FAHRENHEIT 451 | 112 | 1985 | MEDIA PN1997.F24 1985 VCV | MCA HOME VIDEO | Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety... | |
| FAREWELL TO ARMS | 78 | 1996 | MEDIA PN1997.F27 1996B VCV | MADACY VIDEO | A romance set against World War I. Hayes plays Catherine Barkley and Cooper is lt. Frederic Henry who meet on the Italian front and fall in love. | |
| FICTION WRITING: RANDOM COMMENTS ON THE BUSINESS AND THE ART | 58 | 1968 | MEDIA PN3355.F67 CASS | SOUND SEMINARS | Comments on the process of fiction writing, including how to get ideas and how to start and finish a story. Does not discuss how to get a story published. | |
| FORCHE, CAROLYN. OURSELVES OR NOTHING | 1982 | MEDIA PS3556.O68O87 1982 CASS | J. NORTON PUBLISHERS | From the author's book: The Country between us. Contains her reflections of her time in El Salvador. | ||
| FROM HERE TO ETERNITY | 118 | 1989 | MEDIA PN1997.F76 1989 VCV | COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION | An indictment of military life, where one walks the line or pays the price. A peacetime army camp in Hawaii where the storm of human emotions culminates in an explosive climax on December 7, 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor. | |
| FROM THE FURY OF THE NORTHMEN; HALFDAN WAS HERE VIKINGS! 3,4 | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA DL65.V55 1988 PT. 3-4 VCV | KTCA | From the fury of the Northmen tells of the life of the Danish Vikings and how they plundered Western Europe. Shows Viking artifacts found at several sites. Halfdan was here tells how the well-traveled Swedish Vikings developed a shipping... | |
| FUENTES, CARLOS | 28 | 1988 | MEDIA PQ7297.F793Z465 1988 VCV | PBS VIDEO | Bill Moyers interviews Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes who argues that in the present post-Yalta multi polar world, relations between the United States and Latin America should take the form of cooperation and non-intervention, and not self-... | |
| GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL | 60 | 1984 | MEDIA PQ8180.17.A73G33 1984 | FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES | Presents a literary biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel prize winner, through conversations with the author, his friends, and his critics. Examines the course of Garcia Marquez's life, the source of... | |
| GARDNER, JOHN | 16 | 1979 | MEDIA PS3557.A712Z82 1979 CASS | TAPES FOR READERS | ||
| GRAPES OF WRATH | 129 | 1984 | MEDIA PS3537.T3234G848 VCV | TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX | Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. The story of the Joad family and their migration to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma in the 1930's. | |
| Grapes of Wrath, The | 1,260 | MEDIA PS3537.T3234.G8 1998 CASS | John McElroy | The novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and forced off during the 1930s. | ||
| Grapes of Wrath ,The | 26 | 2000 | MEDIA PS3537.T3234.G76 2000VCV | Discovery Communications | Susan Shillinglaw, authors Studs Terkel and Gerald Haslam, Steinbecks son Thomas and third wife, Elaine and others discuss the Dust Bowl era, the Oakies, and the enduring effect of Steinbecks book. Program includes the music of Woodie Guthrie, photographs by Dorothea Lange, and clips from John Fords 1940 film of the novel. | |
| GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL, THE | 63 | 1981 | MEDIA PS374.N68G74 CASS | NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | Novelists Francine du Plessix Gray and Larry McMurty consider what makes a novel great, the "accidental" quality common in great books, death of the novel, and how authors are inspired to begin to write. | |
| GREAT GATSBY, | 270 | 1977 | MEDIA PS3511.I9G7 1985 CASS | Listening Library, Inc. | Young Nick Carraway Becomes confidante and accomplice to his wealthy neighbor, Gatsby, who plans to recapture the heart of Daisy Buchanan | |
| GUNS OF AUGUST, THE | 100 | 1993 | MEDIA D530.G85 1993 VCV | NATHAN KROLL | Consisting entirely of archival footage, documents World War I from the political events leading to it, through its growth into a global conflict that resulted in the deaths of nearly 40 million people. | |
| HAMMER OF THE NORTH; BOLT FROM THE BLUE VIKINGS! PT. 1 & 2 | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA DL65.V55 1988 PT. 1-2 VCV | KTCA | Hammer of the north: Using traditional sagas, ballads, and proverbs, Magnus Magnusson show the values and history of Viking society, re-creates the heroic past of the Vikings, and stresses their contributions as traders, explorers, and... | |
| HEART OF DARKNESS | 105 | 1993 | MEDIA PN1997.H4233 1994VCV | In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continents vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congos jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station. | ||
| HER OWN WORDS | 15 | 1986 | MEDIA F587.D3H47 1986 VCV | JOCELYN RILEY | Uses the first-person narrative created from the memoirs, diaries, and personal stories of several Dane County, Wisconsin pioneer women to bring to life the history of Wisconsin in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s. | |
| HIDING PLACE, THE | 147 | 1989 | MEDIA PN 1997 .H53 1989 VCV | WORLD WIDE PICTURES, INC. | Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the "underground" in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families. | |
| HIGHET, GILBERT, 1906-1978. THE OLD WIZARD; THE... | 40 | 197- | MEDIA PR5907.H54 1970Z CASS | J. NORTON PUBLISHERS | Highet presents two lectures. The first talk concerns William Butler Yeats. The second talk is a critique of James Joyce. | |
| HIGHET, GILBERT, 1906-1978. THE WILD WELSHMAN; THE... | 40 | 197- | MEDIA PR6039.H52Z64 1970Z CASS | J. NORTON PUBLISHERS | Highet presents two lectures. The first talk critiques Dylan Thomas, the second talk is a critique of George Orwell. | |
| HONOR THE EARTH POWWOW | 1990 | MEDIA M1669.H62 1990 CD | RYKO | Documents a native American powwow, featuring Ojibway, Menominee and Winnebago tribes of the Great Lakes region. Records a celebration of life, to honor the earth, and thank the creator with a night of song, dance and drums. | ||
| HOUSE MADE OF DAWN | 126 | 1996 | MEDIA PN1997.H677 1996 VCV | RICHARDSON MORSE | An outcast native American who experiences mystical visions of his ancestors must search for himself. Based on the Pulitzer prize novel of the same title by Scott Momaday. | |
| HOUSEKEEPING | 117 | 1987 | MEDIA PN1997.H68 1987 VCV | COLUMBIA | An eccentric free-spirit returns to her hometown, a small mountain community, to care for her two orphaned nieces. | |
| HUD | 112 | 1982 | MEDIA PN1997.H84 1982 VCV | PARAMOUNT | Hud, a young man whose interests are fighting, drinking, hot-rodding his Cadillac and womanizing, is at odds with himself and with his father, an old-line Texas cattle rancher. | |
| I'M A FOOL. SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S I'M A FOOL | 38 | 1986 | MEDIA PN1997.I5 1986 VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO | Young Andy has left his Ohio home in search of adventure as a horse trainer on the country fair circuit. Andy learns a bittersweet lesson in life when he meets Lucy, the girl of his dreams, and becomes entangled in the lies he tells in order to... | |
| INDIAN AMERICA: A GIFT FROM THE PAST | 58 | 1994 | MEDIA E99.M19I54 1994 VCV | MEDIA RESOURCE ASSOC. INC | 500 years ago disaster struck the ancestors of the Makah Indian Nation. A massive springtime mudslide buried several huge family homes under tons of clay. Centuries later, a storm uncovered part of this ancient whaling village called... | |
| INTERVIEW / ALICE WALKER | 47 | 1981 | MEDIA PS3573.A425Z462 1980Z CASS | AMERCIAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Author Walker talks about hew work. Her early literary models and influences, and what she wants her writing to be. She discusses racism, particularly in music, and comments on what she sees as a too narrow focus of some white women writers. | |
| INTERVIEW / HARRY CREWS | 60 | 1982 | MEDIA PS3553.R46 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Author Crews discusses his childhood and the difficulty he had in writing his autobiography; the creative process; and his concern with the grotesque. | |
| INTO THE MORNING: WILLA CATHER'S AMERICA | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA PS3505.A87Z79 1988 VCV | FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES, INC. | Portrays the life, work, and times of writer Willa Cather. | |
| INTRODUCING DON QUIXOTE | 30 | MEDIA PQ6329.A3 1987 VCV | Presents the role of Miguel Cervantes in Spanish literature and the essence of this most famous work, Don Quixote. Provides the flavor this work in an English translation adaptation. | |||
| ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER READING GIMPEL THE FOOL | 56 | 1967 | MEDIA PS648.J4I82 CASS | CAEDMON RECORDS | ||
| ISLAND CALLED THULE, AN; THE ULTIMATE OUTPOST VIKINGS! 7-8 | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA DL65.V55PT. 7-8 VCV | KTCA | An island called Thule: The Norwegian Vikings flee from the rule of Harold Fine hair and set up the first modern republican Iceland in 930 AD Their conversion to Christianity brought about the literacy and the storytelling genius that found... | |
| IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE | 59 | 1973 | MEDIA PS3523.E94I8 CASS | SINCLAIR LEWIS | The story concerns the anti-intellectual and anti-press attitudes of President Windrip and his communications apparent. | |
| IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT | 105 | 1934 | MEDIA PN1997.I7 1993 VCV | COLUMBIA | Ellie Andrews escapes from her millionaire father, who wants to stop her from marrying a playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets involved with Peter Warner, an out-of-work newsman. | |
| JAMES', HENRY THE JOLLY CORNER | 43 | 1986 | MEDIA PN1997.H44 1986 VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO | Returning to New York 35 years after fleeing the Civil War to Europe, an American finds himself both repelled and lured by American lust for profit and power. | |
| JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL | 57 | 1980 | MEDIA PN1997.J5 VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO | The story of a matriarch on her death bed who struggles to resolve tormenting memories of her past. | |
| JOHN SAYLES INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 82 | 1982 | MEDIA PS3569.A94J65-CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | In an interview conducted by Kay Bonetti, author John Sayles discusses his career and writings. | |
| JOHN SAYLES READS AT THE ANARCHISTS' CONVENTION | 25 | 198- | MEDIA PS3569.A2J6 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | ||
| JOSEPH HELLER READS CATCH-22 | 58 | 1974 | MEDIA PS3558.E476C33 1974 CASS | CAEDMON | ||
| JOURNEY TO SPIRIT ISLAND | 93 | 1993 | MEDIA PN1997.J68 1993 VCV | PAL PRODUCTIONS PRODUCER BRUCE CLARK | Maria and her brother Kjim, young members of the Makah Tribe, have an adventure that will change their lives when two city friends come to visit for the summer. | |
| JOY LUCK CLUB, THE | 139 | 1994 | MEDIA PN1997.J685 1994 VCV | OLIVER STONE | Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children. Both preceded and followed by previews of... | |
| JOY THAT KILLS, THE | 56 | 1988 | MEDIA PN1997.J69 1988 VCV | FFH | A young bride who has been protected and smothered all her life due to a weak heart, is told her beloved husband is dead and she begins to dream of planning her own life, when she finds her husband is not dead after all. | |
| KATE CHOPIN: A REAWAKENING | 27 | 1998 | MEDIA PS1294.C63 A644 1998 VCV | BISMARCK COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION | ||
| KEITA - THE HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT | 96 | 1994 | MEDIA PN1997.K45 1995 VCV |
Based on an important work of African oral literature, the Sundjata epic. When a djeliba, a master griot or bard, arrives mysteriously at the home of Mabo Keita to teach him the meaning of his name, the boy and griot are inevitably brought into conflict with his Westernized mother and schoolteacher, who have rejected African tradition. The griot reveals to Mabo the story of his distant ancestor, Sundjata Keita, the 13th century founder of the great Malian trading empire. | ||
| KEROUAC | 73 | 1985 | MEDIA PN1997.K478 VCV | ACTIVE HOME VIDEO | A docudrama exploration of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, with interviews with writers that were his contemporaries, ex-wife, friends, and others who knew him, plus dramatizations of incidents from his life and works. | |
| KNOTS ON A COUNTING ROPE | 25 | 1988 | MEDIA PZ7.M3643K56 1988 CASS | SPOKEN ARTS | A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race. | |
| KURT VONNEGUT JR. READS BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS | 57 | 1979 | MEDIA PS3572.O5B7 CASS | CAEDMON | The intertwined experiences of a Midland City car dealer and a science fiction writer. | |
| KURT VONNEGUT JR. READS SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE | 51 | 1973 | MEDIA PS3572.O5S6 CASS | CAEDMON | Excerpts from the book. Program notes on container insert. | |
| KURT VONNEGUT, JR. READS WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE | 72 | 1974 | MEDIA PS3565.V66 CASS | CAEDMON RECORDS | ||
| LADY VANISHES | 97 | 1985 | MEDIA PN1997.L339 VCV | CRITERION COLLECTION | An old woman's disappearance during a train ride from Switzerland to England leads a young couple into a web of international espionage on this mystery-comedy. | |
| legacy series | LEGACY PT. 5: CENTRAL AMERICA, THE BURDEN OF TIME | 57 | 1991 | MEDIA F1219.C45 1991 VCV | MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION | Explores the Mayan and Aztec civilizations which in many ways paralleled ancient Mediterranean empires: Godlike kings and a noble ruling class dominated cities of temples and pyramids. |
| LESSING, DORIS READS | 46 | 1986 | MEDIA PR6023.E833G6 1986 CASS | CAEDMON | Author Doris Lessing reads excerpts from her novel which concern women and the broad issues of the times--political, intellectual, artistic, and human. | |
| LIVE AND REMEMBER | 29 | 1987 | MEDIA E99.D1L58 1987 VCV | SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC TELEVISION | Presents the Lakota world view in four parts: song and dance, oral tradition, living today, and the medicine and spirit world. Features interviews, archival photos, and dance footage. | |
| LONDON,JACK, 1876-1916 TO BUILD A FIRE | 1981 | MEDIA PS3523.O46T6 1981 CASS | AUDIO-FORUM | |||
| LORD OF THE FLIES | 100 | 198- | MEDIA PR6013.O35L6 1980Z VCV | DIAMOND VIDEO | This story documents the chilling descent into savagery of a group of British school boys. | |
| LORD OF THE FLIES (WITH HANDBOOK) | 1992 | MEDIA PR6013.035L6 1992CASS |
RECORDED BOOKS | A plane wreck deposits a group of boys, aged six to twelve, on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order on their existence quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. | ||
| LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES | 41 | 1976 | MEDIA PS3519.A392A6 CASS | CAEDMON | The lottery -- My life with R.H. Macy -- The Witch --Charles. | |
| LOTTERY BY SHIRLEY JACKSON | 19 | 198- | MEDIA PS3519.A392L6 1980Z VCV | ENCY. BRIT. EDUCATIONAL CORP. | Presents the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, about a small town with a tradition of holding a lottery, the participants of which are not eager to win. | |
| MALTESE FALCON, THE | 101 | 1989 | MEDIA PN1997.M33 1989 VCV | WARNER BROS. PICTURES | A private-eye thriller which centers around an unrelenting search for a falcon statuette. | |
| MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG | 40 | 1980 | MEDIA PN1997.M36 VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO | Based on the story of the same title by Mark Twain about a small town visited by a stranger who concocts a scheme to test the honesty of the town's leading citizens. | |
| MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE | 126 | 1962 | MEDIA PN1997.M38 1988 VCV | MGM/UA | A U.S. Army soldier, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked away to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug and hypnosis-induced conditioning that transforms him into a human time bomb. | |
| MANON OF THE SPRING | 113 | 1987 | MEDIA PN1997.M38513 1987 VCV | ORION CLASSICS/CLAUDE BERRI | Ten years have passed since the tragic events of Jean De Florette. Jean's daughter, Manon, appears in town to accuse the Soubeyrans of killing her father. A tragedy results that nearly destroys Cesar, the neigh... (French with English subtitles.) | |
| MARGARET ATWOOD INTERVIEW WITH JAN CASTRO | 57 | 1983 | MEDIA PR9199.3.A8A47 1983 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | In an interview conducted by writer/editor. | |
| MARSHALL, PAULE, 1929- (BROWN GIRL, BROWNSTONES. SELECTIONS) | 55 | 198- | MEDIA PS3563.A7223B7 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE | ||
| Matrix Revolutions, The | 2003 | MEDIA PN1997. M3985 2004 DVD |
WARNER BROS. | Neo remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the machine world and the matrix. Bane is still a conduit for Agent Smith, who continues to grow more out of control. Meanwhile, the sentinels are coming dangerously close to Zion. Trinity and Morpheus bargain with The Merovingian to free Neo. Neo, after meeting The Oracle, decides he must leave Zion and go for the machine mainframe. One final battle must ensue, and the future of both races is at stake. | ||
| MCNEIL, HEATHER. HYENA AND THE MOON | 64 | 1995 | MEDIA GR356.4.M36 1995 CASS | LIBRARIES UNLIMITED | Traditional folk tales and fables of the Kikuyu, Turkana, Samburu, Taita, and Kipsigis people of Kenya told with musical accompaniment on African instruments. | |
| MODEST PROPOSAL AND DIGRESSION, A | 1976 | MEDIA PR3724.M6 CASS 1976 | CAEDMON RECORDS | |||
| MONKEY'S PAW | 60 | 1973 | MEDIA PR4821.J2M6 CASS | CAEDMON RECORDS | ||
| MORRISON, TONI SONG OF SOLOMON | 178 | 1985 | MEDIA PS3563.O8749S65 1985 CASS | RANDOM HOUSE AUDIOBOOKS | ||
| MY ANTONIA | 92 | 1995 | MEDIA PN1997.M9 1995 VCV | WILSHIRE COURT PRODUCTIONS, INC. | Set among 19th century pioneers in Nebraska, this is the love story of a young boy who comes to live with his grandparents and falls in love with a girl from a poor immigrant family. | |
| N. SCOTT MOMADAY | 109 | 1983 | MEDIA PS3563.06N3 PTS.1&2 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Author reads From House Made of Dawn, The Names, and Tsaoi and the Shield Maker (a work in progress). | |
| NEWS FROM LAKE WOBEGON | 235 | 1983 | MEDIA PS3561.E37K4-CASS | MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | Monologues home companion heard Saturday evenings on American Public Radio stations across the country written and performed by Garrison... | |
| NIGHT: WIESEL, ELIE, 1928- | 51 | 1982 | MEDIA D810.J4W513 1982 CASS | CAEDMON | A memoir of the author's experiences in Nazi concentration camps. Based on the book of the same title. | |
| NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR | 120 | 1984 | MEDIA PR6029.R8N5 CASS | LISTEN FOR PLEASURE | Read by Derek Jacobi. | |
| NORMAN MACLEAN INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 23 | 1985 | MEDIA PS3563.A317993A46 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | In an interview conducted by Kay Bonetti, author Norman MacLean discusses his life and writings. | |
| NORMAN MACLEAN READS THREE EXCERPTS FROM A RIVER RUNS....... | 77 | 1949 | MEDIA PS3563.A317993R5 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Following a brief introduction to his life and work, author MacLean reads passages from three of his works, all of which take place in Montana. | |
| OF MICE AND MEN | 240 | 1999 | MEDIA PS3537.T3234.O2 1999 | This adaptation of Kafka's novel presents the story of a nameless man accused of a crime without being told what it was. | ||
| OFELAS (PATHFINDER) | 88 | 1988 | MEDIA PN1997.O4413 1988 VCV | FOX LORBER/CAROLCO | Based on the Lapp legend of the 12th century, this is the story of a young man who is taken prisoner by an enemy tribe and forced to act as their pathfinder through the treacherous Arctic. He outsmarts his captors by leading them over a cliff... | |
| ORDINARY PEOPLE | 420 | 1998 | MEDIA PS3557.U34.O7 1998 | |||
| ORFEU NEGRO (BLACK ORPHEUS) | 103 | 1988 | MEDIA PN1997.O7513 1988 VCV | LOPERT FILMS | The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice told against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. In the black section of the city, Orpheus is a streetcar conductor and Eurydice a country girl visiting her relatives in the city. | |
| OUT OF AFRICA | 171 | 1985 | MEDIA DT434.E2B6 CASS | NEWMAN COMMUNICATIONS CORP. | An account of life on a coffee plantation in Kenya. | |
| PAUL'S CASE | 52 | 1980 | MEDIA PS3505.A87P3 1980 VCV | FRIES HOME VIDEO | The story of a romantic young man who drops out of high school in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh and journeys to New York City. | |
| PAUL'S CASE | 55 | 1981 | MEDIA PS3505.A87P3 CASS | CAEDMON | The story is about Paul's struggle to escape the dullness of his existence in Pittsburgh. The story is a haunting & deeply moving one. One of the curious things about it is that it is easier to be sympathetic to Paul's case then to Paul himself. | |
| PAULE MARSHALL INTERVIEW | 81 | 198- | MEDIA PS3563.A7223Z472 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE | ||
| PIERCY, MARGE. AT THE CORE | 58 | 19-- | MEDIA PS3566.I4A7 CASS | AUDIO-FORUM | ||
| PIERCY, MARGE INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 50 | 1986 | MEDIA PS3566.I6Z4 1986 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Covers a variety of Piercy's concerns including her response to critics who criticize her for writing out of apolitical and social vision. Deals with the structure of several of her novels and how plot develops for her out of her... | |
| PLATH, SYLVIA VOICES & VISIONS | 60 | 1988 | MEDIA PS614.V65 PT. 13 VCV | ANNENBERG/CPB PROJECT | Exploration of the life and poetry of Sylvia PLATH through illustrated readings from her poetry and conversations with writers, poets, critics and her mother. | |
| POISONWOOD BIBLE, THE | 960 | 1998 | MEDIA 3561.I496P65 1998 CASS | Brilliance Corporation | A story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. | |
| PORTRAIT OF MAYA ANGELOU | 58 | 1982 | MEDIA PS3551.N464Z77 VCV | PBS VIDEO | Thirty years after she left it, Maya Angelou, poet, musician, and actress, returns to Stamps, Ark., the rural southern town where she grew up. She confronts the scenes of her past, turning over the leaves of memory to recount the... | |
| PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | 50x6 | 1995 | MEDIA PR4034.P7 1995 VCV | BBC/A&E NETWORK | Tale of pre-Victorian British country society in which Mrs. Bennett is faced with the task of finding husbands for her five daughters. | |
| PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED | 89 | 1981 | MEDIA PN1997.P75 VCV | THE GREAT AMWELL COMPANY | Dramatizes Mark Twain's tale based on his two weeks fighting in the Civil War and his later antiwar statement entitled The War Prayer. | |
| RACHEL CARSON'S SILENT SPRING | 57 | 1992 | MEDIA QH545.P4R23 1992 VCV | PEACE RIVER FILMS | Combines letters, books, television programs and archival footage with interviews to create a picture of Rachel Carson and the controversy surrounding her book Silent Spring. | |
| RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER | 57 | 1980 | MEDIA PS1872.R363 1980 VCV | FRIES HOME VIDEO | Based on the story of the same title by Nathanie lHawthorne, set in 18th-century Italy, about a young man's romantic entanglement with a beautiful, forbidden woman in a poisonous garden. | |
| RAY BRADBURY: AN AMERICAN ICON | 47 | 1997 | MEDIA PS3503.R167 Z85 1997 | GREAT NORTH PRODUCTIONS | Biography of writer Ray Bradbury, presented through personal anecdotes; interviews with friends and associates; clips from the television series "The Ray Bradbury Theater"; and footage at home, at play rehearsals, and on the lecture circuit. | |
| RAY CARVER | 1983 | MEDIA PS3551.C3 VOL.1 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | |||
| RAY CARVER | 1983 | MEDIA PS3551.C3 VOL.2 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | |||
| REVOLT OF MOTHER, THE | 47 | 198- | MEDIA PN1997.R48 1980Z VCV | MONTEREY HOME VIDEO/FRIES | In 1890 New England a woman shows her husband that a new house is more important to their family than a new barn. | |
| ROBERT STONE INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 29 | 1982 | MEDIA PS3569.T6418A46 | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | In an interview conducted by Kay Bonetti, author Robert Stone discusses his writings in various contexts. | |
| ROSE FOR EMILY, A | 53 | 1980 | MEDIA PS3511.A86R6 1980 CASS | CAEDMON | The first story is about a reclusive spinster slowly slipping past the boundaries of sanity. The second story is about a man gone wrong. | |
| ROY BLOUNT, JR. INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 52 | 1983 | MEDIA PS3552.B6A47 1983 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | In an interview conducted by Kay Bonetti, author Roy Blount discusses the traditions of American humor, freelance writing, and his place in the Southern renaissance of para-journalism. | |
| ROY BLOUNT, JR. READS EXCERPTS FROM CRACKERS & ONE FELL SOUP | 58 | 1983 | MEDIA E873.B56C7 | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Following introductory comments about the author's life and works, Roy Blount reads excerpts from his books Crackers and One fell soup. | |
| Rue Cases - Negres , (Sugar Cane Alley) | 107 | 2004 | Media PN1997.R8413 2004 DVD |
The teenage life and adventures of young Jose´, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. Jose´ lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former slave, drinks too much one time, and even sets fire to one of the run-down shanties. Regardless of his pranks, Jose´ never neglects his education | ||
| SENSE AND SENSIBILITY | 174 | 1995 | MEDIA PR4034.S42 1995 VCV | BBC ENTERPRISES, LTD. | Jane Austen's novel of two 18th century sisters whose opposite personalities bring them to love in different ways. | |
| SHORT STORIES BY JOHN CHEEVER | 150 | 1985 | MEDIA PS3505.H6428S7 CASS | LISTEN FOR PLEASURE | Contents: Goodbye, my brother -- The enormous radio --The housebreaker of Shady Hill -- The golden age. | |
| SHORT STORIES (BY MARK TWAIN) | 125 | 1973 | MEDIA PS1302.W38 1973 CASS | CAEDMON | The $1,000,00 Bank Note -- The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's -- The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune -- A Story Without an End -- A Dog's Tale -- Edward Mills and George Benton: a Tale --The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm. | |
| SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE | 104 | 1990 | MEDIA PN1997.S6 1990 VCV | PAUL MONASH | The story of Billy Pilgrim who is ordinary in almost every respect but one--he has come unstuck in time and jumps back and forth in time with no control over where he is going next. | |
| SLING SHOT | 102 | 1994 | MEDIA PN1997.S6313 1994 VCV | WALDEMAR BERGENDAHL | Twelve-year-old Roland is the victim of constant bullying and prejudice, but he is also a survivor. When he creates a powerful slingshot out of wire and two of his mother's contraband condoms, he sees a way to turn the tables on his... | |
| SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS | 900 | 1994 | MEDIA 3557.u846S65 1998 CASS | A Sterling Audio Book | On an isolated island in Puget Sound, a fisherman is found murdered. A Japanese-American man is charged with the crime. The resulting trial revives memories of the exiling of all Japanese residents of the island during World War II. | |
| SOLDIER'S HOME | 41 | 1976 | MEDIA PN1997.S65 1976 VCV | FRIES HOME VIDEO | Returning home after World War I to a community in which he feels alien, a soldier struggles to make sense of the past and face the uncertainty ahead. | |
| SOPHOCLES. ELECTRA | 89 | 1983 | MEDIA PA4413.E5 1983 CASS | AUDIO-FORUM | ||
| STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT | 61 | 1969 | MEDIA PQ2349.A4S8 CASS | CAEDMON | The Diamond Necklace--The Signal--Useless Beauty. | |
| STORIES OF KAFKA | 23 | 1962 | MEDIA PT2621.A26S8 CASS | CAEDMON | Hunger Artist--An Imperial Message--A Fratricide--A-Imperial Message--Up In The Gallery--A Dream--Bucket Rider. | |
| Strawberry & Chocolate | 104 | 1994 | MEDIA PN1997.S773 1995 VCV | Miramax Home Entertainment | A naive young Cuban college student meets both a writer and a woman who teach him about the passion of life and the passion of love. | |
| SYNGE, J. M. PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD,THE | 1980 | MEDIA PR5532.P5 1980 CASS | AUDIO-FORUM | |||
USA |
Ten Things a Child Needs | 28 | 1994 | MEDIA B127.C65T8 1994 VCV | PUBLIC AFFAIRS TELEVISION, INC. | Bill Moyers interviews Tu Wei-Ming who discusses the relevance of Confucian philosophy to our times and the recent student movement in China. Tue Wei-Ming suggests that the humanism of Confucius can help us sort out some of the ethical |
| The Enigma of Writing - V.S. Naipaul | 53 | 2000 | Media PR9272.9.N32Z465 2000 VCV |
The award-winning novelist V.S. Naipaul explores the relationship between a writer and his work, offering insights into his life, his career and his subtly incisive novel/memoir The enigma of arrival. In particular, he contrasts the inspiration of living in the English countryside with the Caribbean, Indian, and African influences that dominate his earlier writings. Excerpts from Miguel Street, A house for Mr. Biswas, and other books -- read by actor Roshan Seth and by Naipaul himself -- round out this engaging interview. | ||
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | 104 | Media PN 1997.I738 2000 VCV |
A shipwreck victim washes ashore on an isolated island where a brilliant scientist is conducting monstrous genetic experiments. | |||
| THIS HOUSE OF SKY - LANDSCAPES OF A WESTERN MIND | 180 | 1989 | MEDIA F737.M4D643 2000 CASS | Highbridge Company | This is Ivan Doings story about growing up in Montana. Times were hard and work was difficult, but the Doing family found the strength to endure on their love for one another a gritty determination to survive. | |
| THOMAS, DYLAN READING A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES AND... | 47 | 1973 | MEDIA PR6039.H52A2 CASS | CAEDMON | ||
| THOMAS, DYLAN READING A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES AND FIVE. | 47mins | 1973 | MEDIA PR6039.H52A2 CASS | CAEDMON | A child's Christmas in Wales -- Fern hill -- Do not go gentle into that good night -- In the white giant's thigh --Ballad of the long-legged bait -- Ceremony after a fire raid. | |
| THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD | 105 | 1991 | MEDIA PN1997.T468 1991 VCV | AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE THEATRICAL FILMS | True story of a young Chinese woman torn from her homeland and forced to survive in the frontierland of America. An innocent woman in an Idaho mining towns thriving bordello, Lalu rebels and pays a terrible price for her fight against racism and sexism. Wagered as a piece of property, Lalu is handed over to her now owner, Charlie, who opens the door to a whole new life for Lalu--and for himself. | |
| TILLIE OLSEN | 128 | 1981 | MEDIA PS3565.L4T5 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | The author reads I stand here ironing, excerpts from Yonnondio, and excerpts from Oh Yes. Interview. | |
| Tin Drum, The (Die Blechtrommel) | 142 | 1996 | MEDIA PT2613.R338B5513 1996 VCV | Miramax Films | A boy resolves to stop growing at the age of three, the same year the Nazis come to power. | |
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | 131 | 1962 | MEDIA PN1997.T6 1991 VCV | UNIVERSAL/ALAN PAKULA | Gregory Peck is a southern small town lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of rape. His compassionate, but doomed defense costs him many friends, but earns him the admiration of his two children. | |
| TOBIAS WOLFF INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 54 | 1985 | MEDIA PS3573.O558Z6 1985 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Tobian Wolff talks about how he became a writer, where his major ideas for his short stories come from, how he developed his style and how he solves the difficult problem of ending a short story. | |
| TOLKIEN, J.R..; BASIL HUNTING | 1980 | MEDIA PR6039.O32Z68 1980 CASS | J. NORTON PUBLISHERS | The 1st work contains an interview of J.R.. Tolkien by Denis Gueroult. The 2nd work contains an interview of Basil Bunting by Eric Mottram. | ||
| TONI MORRISON | 52 | 1987 | MEDIA PS3563.O8749Z7 1987 VCV | HOME VISION | Melvyn Bragg interviews Afro-American author Toni Morrison, who discusses the Black experience in America and her expression of that experience in her novel Beloved. Interspersed are readings from the novel and vintage photos of the slave era... | |
| TONI MORRISON READING FROM TAR BABY | 57 | 1983 | MEDIA PS3563.O8749T37 1983 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE | Following a brief introduction to her life and work, author Morrison reads excerpts from her novel, Tar Baby, which is about a wealthy white New England family and their Black servants. | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAM 10 | 59 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.10 VCV | WILLIAM FREE PRODUCTIONS | In this program, Joseph Campbell discovers a synthesis of the main ideas of Eastern religions in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAM 13 | 59 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.13 VCV | PUBLIC MEDIA VIDEO | In this program, Joseph Campbell examines all facets of the Parzival myth in which he finds the inspiration for Western themes throughout the ages. | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAM 5 | 59 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.5 VCV | PUBLIC MEDIA VIDEO | Joseph Campbell discusses the Eleusinian mysteries which encapsulate the Greek religion and how mystical elements of Christianity contrast with the historical flow of the Bible. He shows how this mystical way reemerges as the foundation for... | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAMS 1-2 | 118 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.1-2 VCV | PUBLIC MEDIA VIDEO | In Program 1, Joseph Campbell delves into our evolutionary development and discusses how we confront the existence of forces greater than ourselves. In the second program, he tells an archetypal Navajo Indian myth in which all aspects of... | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAMS 11-12 | 118 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT11-12 VCV | PUBLIC MEDIA VIDEO | In Program 11, Joseph Campbell traces the cultural transformations of the Arthurian legends as they swept across medieval and Renaissance Europe. In Program 12, he discusses the idea that behind many great stories of courtly love lies the... | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAMS 3-4 | 118 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.3-4 VCV | PUBLIC MEDIA VIDEO | In Program 3, Joseph Campbell traces the establishment of god-centered religions from the Neolithic period on. In program 4, he presents the myths of Isis and Osiris and explores the mythological and historical roots of the Exodus. | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAMS 6-7 | 118 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.6-7 VCV | WILLIAM FREE PRODUCTIONS | In Program 6, Joseph Campbell explores Indian religious history and its rites of sacrifice in the Vedic period (1500 B.C. to 500 B.C.) of early Indus Valley civilization. In Program 7, he probes how mysticism and identification with the ultimate... | |
| TRANSFORMATIONS OF MYTH THROUGH TIME. PROGRAMS 8-9 | 118 | 1989 | MEDIA BL311.T72 1989 PT.8-9 VCV | WILLIAM FREE PRODUCTIONS | In Program 8, Joseph Campbell looks at the roots of Tantra in the Hindu-Buddhist tradition, and at the predominant role of the feminine principle in this spiritual path. In program 9, he reveals how Kundalini yoga teaches the rituals and... | |
| TU WEI-MING: A CONFUCIAN LIFE IN AMERICA | 28 | 1994 | MEDIA B127.C65T8 1994 VCV | PUBLIC AFFAIRS TELEVISION, INC. | Bill Moyers interviews Tu Wei-Ming who discusses the relevance of Confucian philosophy to our times and the recent student movement in China. Tue Wei-Ming suggests that the humanism of Confucius can help us sort out some of the ethical | |
| VIGIL, ANGEL. THE CORN WOMAN | 1hr30 | 1995 | MEDIA GR111.H57V54 1995 CASS | LIBRARIES UNLIMITED | Presents stories and legends from the Hispanic Southwest in both English and Spanish; the stories are recorded in only one language on each cassette tape. | |
| Buried Mirror, The | Virgin and the Bull, The | 59 | 1991 | MEDIA DP48.9.B87 1991 PT.1 VCV | Films, Inc. | Carlos Fuents looks for his forebears in the mix of people that created Latin America: Spanish, Arab, Jewish, Indian and African. He asks what is unique in their culture that is cause for celebration in the 500th anniversary year of Columbus. His quest takes him from the quayside at Vera Cruz back to Spain. |
| VONNEGUT, KURT READS CAT'S CRADLE | 68 | 1973 | MEDIA PS3572.O5C3 1973 CASS | CAEDMON | ||
| VOYAGES OF ULYSSES AND AENEAS | 36 | 1989 | MEDIA PA4167.V69 1989 VCV | EDUCATIONAL AUDIO VISUAL INC. | Acquaints students with the adventures of Homer's Ulysses and Vergil's Aeneas. | |
| WALKER, ALICE, 1944- A CELEBRATION OF BLACK WOMEN IN LITERAT | 29 | 1980 | MEDIA PS3573.A425M48 CASS | NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | Presents a dramatization of selected passages from Alice Walker's novel entitled Meridian, the story of a woman's pilgrimage to free herself from the guilt of the past by working with the poor. Ms. Walker provides brief insights and commentary | |
| WATER IS WIDE, THE | 660 | 1996 | MEDIA LC2852.Y3.C6 1996 | |||
| WATERSHIP DOWN | 240 | 1984 | MEDIA PR6051.D345W3 1984 CASS | Australian Broadcasting Corp | Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. A full-cast dramatization with sound effects and music. | |
| WELTY, EUDORA,1909-ON STORY TELLING | 53 | 1961 | MEDIA PN3355.W45 CASS | JEFFREY NORTON PUBLISHERS | ||
| WHARTON, EDITH, 1862-1937. THE BUCCANEERS | 180 | 1993 | MEDIA PS3545.H16B83 1993 CASS | PENGUIN-HIGHBRIDGE AUDIO | Read by Dana Ivey. | |
| WHY AMERICA HATES THE PRESS | 60 | 1996 | MEDIA PN4888.O25W49 1996 VCV | STEPHEN TALBOT PBS | A tough, insider's examination of the culture and tactics of the national press corps. With public respect for the press at an all-time low-- on a par with public regard for politicians--journalists have begun to break ranks to probe what... | |
| WHY THE SUN AND THE MOON LIVE IN THE SKY | 11 | 198- | MEDIA PZ8.1.W49 1980Z VCV | EMILY S. JONES | A legend originally told by the Efik-Ibibio peoples of southeastern Nigeria about the Sun and Moon who lived on land until the sea came to visit them and the inundation forced them up into the sky. Animated. | |
| Wide Sargasso Sea |
98 | 1993 | Media PN1997.W53 2003 DVD |
On a plantation in the lush Blue Mountains of Jamaica, young lovers are swept into a menage of black magic and erotic obsession that spirals into a climax of seduction, betrayal, and ultimately revenge. | ||
| WILD WORLD OF "OBSCURO COMIX", THE | 49 | 1993 | MEDIA PN6710.W54 1993 VCV | SPSCC MEDIA CTR - STEVE WHALEN | Cartoonist, librarian & iconoclastic super-hero Steve Willis presents a lecture on the history & development of underground, new wave and "obscuro" comix. | |
| WILL ROGERS' U.S.A. | 100 | 198- | MEDIA PN1991.77.A1W8 CASS | NEWMAN COMMUNICATIONS CORP. | Selections from well-known radio programs originally done by Will Rogers. | |
| WILLIAM KENNEDY INTERVIEW WITH KAY BONETTI | 77 | 1984 | MEDIA PS3561.E428Z4 1984 CASS | AMERICAN AUDIO PROSE LIBRARY | Author William Kennedy is interviewed by Kay Bonetti and talks about his writing career and contemporary fiction in general. | |
| WINDWALKER | 108 | 1980 | MEDIA PN1997.W55 1983 VCV | WINDWALKER PROD/CBSFOX VIDEO | Native American w/ English Subtitles. Windwalker, an old Cheyenne chief, is dying and in the process he shares the memories of his life with his grandchildren. | |
| WRITING THE BASIC ARTICLE | 25 | 1975 | MEDIA PN440-CASS | THE WRITER'S VOICE | ||
| WRITING THE BASIC SHORT STORY | 30 | 1974 | MEDIA PN439-CASS | THE WRITER'S VOICE | ||
| ZORBA THE GREEK | 142 | 1964 | MEDIA PN1997.Z67 1993 VCV | 20TH CENTURY FOX | Set on the Greek island of Crete, this is the story of an inhibited English writer who is befriended by a boisterous peasant named Zorba and in the process the young man moves from an observer of the world to a participant. |