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Charles Johnson
Title
Charles Johnson / California Newsreel (Firm).
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : California Newsreel (Firm), [1994]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2012.
Copyright Notice Date
©1994
Physical Description
1streaming video file (29 min.) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 24, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This program shows how Charles Johnson, a quintessential multicultural novelist, blends black folk tales, Zen parables, 18th-century picaresque novels, and 20th-century philosophy into storytelling of remarkable vitality. Here, Johnson explains that he explores metaphysical questions against the backdrop of black American life. Oxherding Tales and Middle Passage are odysseys in search of individual identity and common values among conflicting cultures. Johnson concludes, "I am looking for the universal in particulars of black experience. We are cultural variations on one world experience.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 and up.
Contents
Multicultural Writer (2:14)
Art and Journalism (1:50)
Black Humor (2:01)
College for Charles Johnson (1:13)
Marxism (2:23)
Philosophical Questions (1:37)
Martial Arts and Writing (3:34)
Writing Regimen (2:17)
First Novel (2:44)
Character Analysis (1:31)
Categories of Literature (1:32)
Literary Theme (1:23)
Credits: Charles Johnson (1:35)
Videorecording number
4624 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
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California Newsreel (Firm)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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