02119cgm a2200325 i 4500 1991023971 TxAuBib 20240304120000.0 r 150908s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 1122583 Kanopy (OCoLC)921955566 VDU eng VDU TxAuBib rda Spoon River Anthology [Kanopy]. [San Francisco, California, USA : Kanopy Streaming, 2015. 1 online resource (streaming video file.) tdi rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from title frames. In Process Record. Originally produced by The Phoenix Learning Group in 2007. A new look at a classic of the American heartland, which unraveled the myths about people who lived and died in the supposedly idyllic days of rural America. Director Thomas G. Smith has digitally remastered his original 1976 production, which captured Edgar Lee Masters' lyrical realism with dramatic readings, authentic settings, and period photography. Smith's brand-new film adds nearly half an hour of new material exploring Masters' life and works, and includes interviews with John Hallwas, a Masters expert at the University of Western Illinois, and Hilary Masters, Edgar Lee Masters' son and a professor of English and creative writing at Carnegie-Mellon University. In Spoon River Anthology, Masters probed beneath life's surfaces to reveal the very human strengths and weaknesses of the people who inhabited his semi-fictional town. Smith's production, subtitled Heartland Poetry for a New Age, shows why Spoon River was a major milestone in American literature - a book of poetry that was a national best-seller, and that still resonates nearly a century after its publication. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Literature. North American Studies. Smith, Thomas, filmmaker. Kanopy (Firm). https://USERNAME.kanopy.com/node/122584 https://www.kanopy.com/node/122584/external-image