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    • 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.
    • Links:Streaming video

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    • 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:Visual Material
    • 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)
    • Subjects:American literature--20th century.
      Literature, modern.
    • Genre/Form:Internet videos.
    • Also listed under:California Newsreel (Firm)
      Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
      Infobase.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14150588