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Publisher
Films Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It's raining as a man walks into a bar in the French Quarter and tells the story of a lady who wears a purple hat. The lady has taken a seat at the bar every evening for 30 years, always with an enthralled young man, never aging, and never dying, despite the fact that the man has seen her murdered by her companion - twice. Is the lady a ghost? What is the purpose of the syringe and vial concealed in her hat? And why does the young man now listening...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A family returns to life on a farm and finds some answers to the paradox of living. The son, a young man, is having a crisis of faith when he begins to question the meaning of death. In searching through the questions of life and death, he discovers the wonder of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations.
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...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2000, 2004]
Language
English
Description
Poe's eerie tale of murder and revenge, as a young man is gradually driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man he cares for. After murdering the old man, and burying the body beneath the floor of his room, he thinks he hears the heartbeat of his victim. When police come to investigate, he offers a confession, convinced that they can also hear the heartbeat.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th Century Italy, this is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl. Beatrice 's strange and unearthly beauty masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni tragically discovers. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the effect she has on him, he unwittingly...
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them - and caught three sly creatures to get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ab Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his...
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered to be one of the world's great writers, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. Provides an insight to "The metamorphosis," Kafka's perplexing story about a man who wakes one morning to discover that he has turned into a beetle. One of the most widely read and studied short stories of all time, Kafka's greatest work is humorously and intensely brought to life.