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Our Town and Ourselves

Discusses Wilder's use of music, theme and variation, and condensed line or word, using scenes from the play as examples. Points out that Wilder is attempting to make viewers "aware of life" and "reconcile them to life," and scenes giving evidence of this are dramatically read by Clifton Fadiman. Concludes by again defining the humanities as the study of basic human questions that are unchanging and which bring increasing meaning to our lives., Detailed analysis of Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town, with emphasis on what the play offers the student in increased self-understanding and cultural enrichment. Narrated by Clifton Fadiman.
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Man talking to camera. Men talking, classical musician playing, the heads of different sculptors

More in Humanities Series (Ebec)

  1. Hamlet: The Readiness Is All
  2. Huckleberry Finn: What Does Huckleberry Finn Say?,
  3. Oedipus Rex: The Character Of Oedipus
  4. "Our Town" and Our Universe 1959
  5. Hamlet: What Happens in Hamlet 1959
  6. Oedipus Rex: Age of Sophocles 1959
  7. Oedipus Rex: Man and God 1959
  8. Oedipus Rex: The Recovery of Oedipus 1959
  9. Our Town and Ourselves 1959
  10. The Theatre: One of the Humanities 1959
  11. Aristotle's Ethics -- Book I: The theory of happiness. 1962
  12. Art: What Is It? Why Is It? 1962
  13. Plato's apology : the life and teachings of Socrates 1962
  14. The Novel: Early Victorian England and Charles Dickens 1962
  15. The Novel: What It Is, What It's About, What It Does 1962
  16. Emperor and Slave--The Philosophy of Roman Stoicism 1964
  17. Macbeth, Part 1: Politics of Power 1964
  18. Macbeth, Part 2: The Themes of Macbeth 1964
  19. Macbeth, Part 3: The Secret'st Man 1964
  20. Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn and the American Experience 1965
  21. Huckleberry Finn: The Art of Huckleberry Finn 1965
  22. The Odyssey, Part 1: Structure of the Epic 1965
  23. The Odyssey, Part 3: The Central Themes 1965
  24. The Louvre: A Golden Prison 1966
  25. A doll's house by Henrik Ibsen : part 2, Ibsen's themes 1967

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