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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

N. Scott Momaday : words from a bear / a co-production of Rainy Mountain Media LLC, Independent Television Service Inc., Vision Maker Media, and Thirteen Productions LLC's American Masters for WNET ; directed and produced by Jeffrey Palmer.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2019]

[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.

Target Audience Note:

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-14.

Subjects:

Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

American literature -- Indian authors -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographical television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Other Author:

Palmer, Jeffrey (Filmmaker), television director, television producer, editor of moving image work.

Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024 interviewee (expression)

Redford, Robert, interviewee (expression)

Bridges, Jeff, 1949- interviewee (expression)

Bridges, Beau, interviewee (expression)

Jones, James Earl, interviewee (expression)

Harjo, Joy, interviewee (expression)

Rainy Mountain Media production company

Independent Television Service, production company.

Vision Maker Media, production company.

American Masters Pictures, production company.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), broadcaster.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.

PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributror.

Other Title:

Words from a bear

Contained in (work): American masters (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on television in 2019 as an episode of American masters.

Special features: A reading from N. Scott Momaday's novel, In the bear's house, by James Earl Jones and Flynn Jones; dialogues with N. Scott Momaday and Robert Redford in Santa Fe, NM; an interview with M. Scott Momaday's former editor, Francis McCullough.

Editor, Nancy Novack ; music, Aska Matsumiya ; cinematographers, Jeffrey Palmer, Youngsun Palmer.

Interviewees, N. Scott Momaday, Robert Redford, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, James Earl Jones, Joy Harjo.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround or stereo.

English dialogue; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH); audio-described.

ISBN:

9781531711276

1531711278

9781531711276 : DVD

1531711278 : DVD

Publisher Number:

AM61901

Other Number:

1122629644

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

817551

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 813 Momaday