Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1985) (excerpt)
Title
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1985) (excerpt)
Subject
Novelists, American--19th century--Biography
URL
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Description
Content description from Worldcat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/herman-melville-damned-in-paradise/oclc/220940727):
In his lifetime, Herman Melville (1819-1891) was known as "the man who lived among cannibals." His best-selling tales about the South Seas, Typee and Omoo, earned Melville a place in the literary world of the 1840's, but his later works were failures in the 19th-century marketplace. Today Melville's fame extends far beyond his early Polynesian adventure stories. Better known for writing Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, his prose and poetry are now considered among the most beautiful in the English language. From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this program documents the personal and intellectual adventures of this extraordinary American author and man. Herman Melville, Damned in Paradise is a critical biography that blends location photography, interviews with critics and biographers, rare family and archival photographs, and selections from Melville's writing in a dramatic and visually sophisticated documentary.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Page from TV guide with program noted and handwritten notes.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
In his lifetime, Herman Melville (1819-1891) was known as "the man who lived among cannibals." His best-selling tales about the South Seas, Typee and Omoo, earned Melville a place in the literary world of the 1840's, but his later works were failures in the 19th-century marketplace. Today Melville's fame extends far beyond his early Polynesian adventure stories. Better known for writing Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, his prose and poetry are now considered among the most beautiful in the English language. From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this program documents the personal and intellectual adventures of this extraordinary American author and man. Herman Melville, Damned in Paradise is a critical biography that blends location photography, interviews with critics and biographers, rare family and archival photographs, and selections from Melville's writing in a dramatic and visually sophisticated documentary.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Page from TV guide with program noted and handwritten notes.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
F. Murray Abraham (performer)
John Huston (narrator)
Karen Thomas (producer)
Publisher
Pyramid Film and Video
Date
1985 May 15
Citation
“Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1985) (excerpt),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed May 4, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/492.