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Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Christy Mahon, a cloddish shy young farmer, appears at the local pub in a village on the wild coast of Mayo, bearing the news that he has recently murdered his father with one blow of a spade while they were out digging potatoes. To his delighted astonishment, he is hailed as a hero in the town where he is a stranger and begins to bask in unexpected adulation.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003, c1994]
Language
English
Description
Each night since he attempted suicide, the old man has come to the cafe -- a clean, well-lighted place -- to get drunk, staying until closing time at 2:30 a.m. But on this night, the younger of the two waiters turns the old man out an hour early, anxious to go home to his wife. How might this confident young man feel if he knew that his somewhat older coworker is also looking for a clean, well-lighted place?
This 1994 dramatization of Hemingway's...
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This program explores the many similarities among tribal nations, including a profound respect for nature, myth, and tradition; matriarchal governance; a communal lifestyle; a belief in an afterlife; and the use of pictographs, symbols, and patterns rather than an alphabet-based language. Also featured are brief scenes of re-created warfare.
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Presents the second of the three Theban plays by Sophocles in a contemporary translation that remains true to the text, setting the plays in the past yet not the distant past and dispensing with the masks. This second segment of the trilogy recounts the final days of the blind Oedipus in which he rails against the indignities of old age.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
A presentation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, performed in the authentic setting of a fifth-century Greek theater, with the use of masks made after ancient models. Discusses how drama developed from sacrificial ceremonies to Dionysius.
8) Antigone
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A unique adaptation of the play by Sophocles.
10) Medea
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Kennedy Center production of Euripides' great classic about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality. Medea is abandoned by her husband Jason so he can marry the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, and is exiled by Creon as a dangerous foreigner. She exacts revenge by causing the deaths of Creon and his daughter and by murdering her own and Jason's two children before escaping into exile in Athens.
