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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Consider wellness, sickness, and the finer points of the medical profession in Austen's fiction and in her day to deepen your knowledge of the genius of her books. From valetudinarians and deadly fevers, to sprained ankles and gout, look at the important role that physical health -- both good and ill -- plays in Austen's novels and how medical professionals treated patients in the Regency era.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen also had unpublished minor works that went unknown until several decades after her death. Here, dig into one of her most surprising pieces of fiction: Lady Susan, an epistolary novella that stars a charismatic and morally bankrupt widow. Lady Susan, may seem the opposite of the more famous Austen heroines, but you may find that she has a certain charm that is hard to resist.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Austen's last completed novel, Persuasion, is slower in pace and more melancholy in tone than her earlier work. Look closely at two defining features of the story: its focus on age and aging and its more direct approach to real-life political events of the time. Better appreciate the many complex dimensions of Austen's final published work.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What made for an "accomplished" woman in the Regency period? Look at the list of activities and talents expected of young women of means and how these accomplishments contrast with being well read or learned. Along the way, you'll see what Austen thought about these accomplishments and what she believed were the greater benefits of an education of knowledge and ideas for middle-class women.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mansfield Park is perhaps the most controversial of Austen's finished novels. Meet Fanny Price, the unassuming heroine at the center of this more serious entry in Austen's oeuvre, and see why Austen's third novel is the most divisive among readers. Through Fanny's travails and quiet rebellion, Austen would create a complex story that examines the dynamics of family, power, work, and gender.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Austen's stories may seem obsessed with money. But to understand the characters and relationships in her novels, it is vital to grasp her culture's economic and social structures. Learn about money, inheritance, and ownership in Regency England and see why so many characters are concerned with the financial situations of others.
5387) Haymarket
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Haymarket Tragedy (also known as the Haymarket Riot) where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers' rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist and socialist movements of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One of the two novels published after Austen's death, Northanger Abbey is Austen's love letter to the gothic novels of her youth. Look at the gothic tradition of the late 1700s and how Austen's gentle mocking of the melodramatic flourishes of the genre inform the experiences of her impressionable young heroine, Catherine Morland.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Despite the treasure trove of information that we have about Jane Austen's historical time and place, we actually have very little direct knowledge about her life. Look at what we do know from her surviving letters, and take a closer look at the facts and fictions that have persisted over time about her life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Take a tour of the finer points of Regency clothing and luxury items, and see how Austen uses descriptions of dress and accessories to make subtle (and not-so-subtle) observations on both the social status and the moral values of her characters. Better understand how "frivolous" distinctions about what one wears take on significant meanings in Austen's fiction.
5391) Fire at sea
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Samuele is twelve and lives on an island in the Mediterranean, far away from the mainland. Like all boys of his age he does not always enjoy going to school. He would much rather climb the rocks by the shore, play with his slingshot or mooch about the port. But his home is not like other islands. For years, it has been the destination of men, women and children trying to make the crossing from Africa in boats that are far too small and decrepit. The...
5392) Silent Comrade
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Accompanies three soldiers diagnosed with PTSD that are trying to find a way back to life with the help of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. It attends the therapy sessions as a silent observer and allows access to the special therapy approach of the renowned therapist Claudia Swierczek.
5394) The Investigator
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the 1990s, Vladimír Dzuro worked as an investigator for the Hague Tribunal, gathering evidence against war criminals. The film also delves into the International Criminal Court's efforts to combat impunity and prevent future atrocities.
5395) The Welles Raft
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Orson Welles was in Brazil filming his documentary It's All True about Carnival and the Jangadeiros (Brazillian fishermen). The leader of Jangadeiros, Manuel Jacaré, died during filming. This fact evokes memories of Orson Welles in Brazil – and it changed his life forever.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Renowned folklorist Helen Creighton single-handedly compiled North America's largest collection of folklore and music, much of which would have disappeared forever if not for her tenacity, collecting stories and songs from the Gaelic singers of Cape Breton, French Acadians, the Mi'kmaw, and the Black communities of Nova Scotia.
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With more school shootings in 2021 than any year on record, Code Red: Youth of the Nation exposes the fatal cost of our children's education. The documentary seeks to restore the safety of our schools by providing the tools and solutions to put an end to these tragedies.
5398) Women Composers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh realised that her repertoire almost exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers. Her research in archives, libraries, and publishing houses quickly brought to light a variety of remarkable piano pieces that have been buried in history and rarely performed.. Steckeweh sees a lot of catching up to do, which is why the focus of her piano recitals and recordings...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The people of the Bolivian highlands blend in thought and practice the traditional magic of the region and the religion of their conquerors. A fatal automobile accident, coincident with the festival of Santiago, provides occasion for unique expressions of both faith and magic in the effort to influence events.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This new documentary tells of a horrific, little-known incident of racial violence by police that became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and,...
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