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Cervantes and the legend of Don Quijote spirit of a book
Title
Cervantes and the legend of Don Quijote [electronic resource (video)] : spirit of a book / Radiotelevisión Española.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c2004.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (56 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Nov. 11, 2006.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Featuring film clips, reenactments, and dramatizations, this program examines the imperishable spirit of Don Quijote through the life of Cervantes and the literary masterpiece that bears Quijote's name. Topics range from the place of Don Quijote in world literature and its influence on later writers, to autobiographical parallels between Quijote and Cervantes, to the universal qualities of Quijote and Sancho Panza, to the eternal search for utopia. Commentary by Gunter Grass, Jose Saramago, Mario Vargas Llosa, and other authors and professors adds academic authority.
Variant and related titles
Spirit of a book
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Radiotelevisión Española, 2006
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
11 & up.
Contents
Don Quixote: A Literary Masterpiece (3:39)
Cervantes' Tirade Against Books of Chivalry (5:44)
Life of Cervantes: Early Years (4:17)
Character Study: Don Quixote (1:42)
Opposite and Complementary Characters: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (4:56)
Comedy in "Don Quixote" (2:57)
Life of Cervantes: A Series of Disappointments (6:20)
Reality and Fiction in "Don Quixote" (3:04)
Don Quixote, the Naive (2:55)
Don Quixote, the Mad Lucid (4:25)
Don Quixote, the Idealist (3:48)
Life and Death of Don Quixote (6:50)
Universal Themes: "Don Quixote" (1:41)
Videorecording number
36210 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Radiotelevisión Española.
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