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Walt Whitman / a New York Center for Visual History production ; director, Jack Smithie.
LIBRA VHS PS3231 .W323 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Television series.
- Biographical films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Mystic Fire Video, [1995]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Explores the life and work of American poet Walt Whitman. Examines his heroic vision of America, his frank call for sexual freedom, and his rejection of traditional constraints of form and subject matter. Incorporates numerous period photographs and paintings, with narrations by Galway Kinnell and commentary by Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Justin Kaplan and Harold Bloom.
- Credits:
- Editors, Peter Hammer, Mark Rappaport ; directors of photography, Lloyd Freidus, Robert Fulton ; narrator, Paul MacNicol ; the voice of the poet, Galway Kinnel.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 1988.
- Videocassette release of an episode from the PBS television series: Voices & visions, as presented by South Carolina Educational Television.
- OCLC:
- 35322898
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