Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The botany of desire [videorecording] / produced and directed by Michael Schwarz ; produced by Kikim Media.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2009.

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip markets of Amsterdam.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TV-PG.

Subjects:

Human-plant relationships.

Nature.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Pollan, Michael.

McDormand, Frances.

Schwarz, Michael, producer.

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container.

Release date: Nov. 3, 2009.

Based on the book by Michael Pollan.

Originally produced for television, 2008.

Bonus features: deleted scenes; panel discussion on the interdisciplinary importance of The Botany of desire (19 min.); additional interview with Michael Pollan (29 min.)

Directors of photography, John Chater, Vicente Franco; edited by Don Bernier and Gail Huddleson; original score, Martin Bresnick.

Michael Pollan, host ; narrated by Frances McDormand.

DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen; Dolby 2.0 stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Introduction -- Apples: the desire for sweetness -- Apples as a commodity -- Tulips: the desire for beauty -- Breeding tulips -- Marijuana: the desire for intoxication -- The science behind marijuana -- Potatoes: the desire for control -- Today's potato monoculture -- The web of life.

ISBN:

0793670845

9780793670840

Publisher Number:

TBOD601

Other Number:

456457382

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

254372

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 581.4 Botany o

Medium:

[videorecording]