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Life on the Mississippi
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippi River.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28 min.)
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco Canyon Cinema 2018
- Summary:
- An essay film about a river and the limits of knowing it. Using Mark Twain's Life On The Mississippi as a road map, Brown travels along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans and considers ways that river pilots, paddlers, historical re-enactors, and civil engineers attempt to know the river through modeling, measurement, and simulation
- Credits:
- Bill Brown, filmmaker
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen
- OCLC:
- 1343068605
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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