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Gore Vidal : the United States of amnesia / a film by Nicholas Wrathall ; produced & directed by Nicholas Wrathall ; produced by Burr Steers, Theodore James ; written by Nicholas Wrathall ; Amnesia Productions in association with SuperFilms! & Audax Films present.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012--Political and social views.
- Vidal, Gore.
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012--Criticism and interpretation.
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Political and social views.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (89 min.) : digital, sound, color and black and white
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by Bullfrog Films], [2016]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal's acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore's political views and his concern at the present state of American democracy using interviews and historical footage of his famous appearances on television and talk shows over the last fifty years. In the recently filmed interviews Gore examines the course of American history and policy making and draws dramatic conclusions on the fate of the nation in the modern age.
- Participant:
- Featuring Gore Vidal, with commentary by Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley, Tim Robbins, Sting, Christopher Hitchens and others.
- Credits:
- Edited by Suresh Ayyar, Robert Bralver, William Haugse ; composer, Ian Honeyman ; cinematographers, Derek Wiesehahn, Joel Schwartzberg, Armando De'ath.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Amnesia Productions, ©2013; previously released in 2014.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed February 18, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-gore Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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