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.

Zwonitzer, Mark.; Wignot, Jamila.; Long, Patrick.; Simmons, J. K.; Cooper, Chris,; Patrick Long Productions (Firm); Hidden Hill Productions.; PBS Home Video.

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.

Zwonitzer, Mark.; Wignot, Jamila.; Long, Patrick.; Simmons, J. K.; Cooper, Chris, 1951-; Patrick Long Productions (Firm); Hidden Hill Productions.; PBS Home Video.

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

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.

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 Author

Zwonitzer, Mark.
Wignot, Jamila.
Long, Patrick.
Simmons, J. K.
Cooper, Chris, 1951-

Added Corporate Author

Patrick Long Productions (Firm)
Hidden Hill Productions.
PBS Home Video.

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