Walt Whitman [videorecording] / PBS ; written and directed by Mark Zwonitzer ; produced and co-directed by Jamila Wignot ; producer, Patrick Long ; a Patrick Long Productions film in association with HiddenHill Productions for American experience.
2008
PS3231 .W358 2008
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Title
Walt Whitman [videorecording] / PBS ; written and directed by Mark Zwonitzer ; produced and co-directed by Jamila Wignot ; producer, Patrick Long ; a Patrick Long Productions film in association with HiddenHill Productions for American experience.
Uniform Title
American experience (Television program)
ISBN
0793694361
9780793694365
9780793694365
Publication Details
[United States] : PBS Home Video [distributor], c2008.
Language
English
Language Note
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Description
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Item Number
841887009379
Call Number
PS3231 .W358 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.3 B
Distributor No.
AMX62008 PBS Home Video
Summary
One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892 at the age of 72.
Note
Broadcast as an episode of the PBS television program American experience.
Special feature: teacher's guide PDF.
Narrator, J.K. Simmons ; voice of Walt Whitman, Chris Cooper.
Special feature: teacher's guide PDF.
Narrator, J.K. Simmons ; voice of Walt Whitman, Chris Cooper.
Credits
Editor, Penny Elliott Hays ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; music, Joel Goodman.
System Details Note
DVD; Region 1; widescreen; optional 5.1 surround sound.
Added Corporate Author
Patrick Long Productions (Firm)
Hidden Hill Productions.
PBS Home Video.
Hidden Hill Productions.
PBS Home Video.
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Table of Contents
Center of everything
Captured by the city
Slavery and the coming crisis
Leaves of grass
Desperate to connect
A call for affection
The Civil War
Drum taps
His life's work.
Captured by the city
Slavery and the coming crisis
Leaves of grass
Desperate to connect
A call for affection
The Civil War
Drum taps
His life's work.