Great African American Authors - Program 6: 1968 - 1982
About this title: African American Literature expands and diversifies into a wide array of styles and genres, but still takes on the growing cultural and economic divide between Whites and Blacks.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas...
Great African American Authors - Program 5: 1954 - 1967
About this title: With the Civil Rights Movement in full swing, racial tensions escalate in America. In response African American writers give rise to a new literary expression - Black Power.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas is ...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 3: The Theater Turns Inward
About this title: As the Age of Industrialization reached its zenith in Europe and America, playwrights responded by delving into the depths of the human mind. Program three shows how European and American playwrights turned to psychology for inspir...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 4: The Theater Responds to Modernism
About this title: Program four examines how the epicenter of the theater and playwriting shifted to the United States, and how the musical became a major part of the theater.
About the Series: From the beginnings of western democracy in ancient Gre...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 1: Antiquity to the Renaissance
About this title: Program one examines the origins of plays and the earliest playwrights in Ancient Greece to the influences from Greek and Roman theater and the Renaissance writers of the Elizabethan Age.
About the Series: From the beginnings of w...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 5: The Great Resurgence of the Theater
About this title: At the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st, change engulfed the world from social issues to the transmission of information. In Program five we'll see how playwrights dealt with the psychological and social change...
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 2: The Theater Responds to Industrialization
About this title: Program two investigates how playwrights all over Europe reacted to social change in the Age of Industrialization.
About the Series: From the beginnings of western democracy in ancient Greece, plays have been a part of the human e...
Great African American Authors - Program 1: 1761 - 1901
About this title: Born out of slavery and the African oral tradition, African American Authors gave voice to the struggles of black people in the early days of this nation.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas is the history of Afric...
Great African American Authors - Program 2: 1902 - 1924
About this title: The onset of the 20th Century gave rise to a new cadre of African American Authors, embodied in the great literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas is the history of Af...
Great African American Authors - Program 3: 1925 - 1937
About this title: The Harlem Renaissance ended as America entered the Great Depression, but new black authors came to the forefront to contribute to the ever-growing body of African American Literature.
About the Series: One of the amazing America...