Arthur Miller
Author
Pub. Date
[1949]
Description
The powerful drama of Willy Loman & his tragic end. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 163
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
774 p. ; 21 cm.
4) The crucible
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
6) The misfits
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
7) Mark Twain
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 220 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences, double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.