COMM 460
Fall 2007

Some Video Resources

The Puritan Community

  • The Scarlett Letter. Film. 135 minutes. Be careful with this one. Remember that the author of the the book was doing a number on his Puritan ancestors, and Hollywood sexes it up and sprinkles in a little violence. Given this, it still gives you a flavor of the Puritan culture. Just make certain you apply your knowledge of that culture to it.
  • "Massacre at Mystic." DVD. Program 1 of the 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America series. History Channel, A&E Home Video. Available in Hornbake Non-print Media room. 60 minutes
  • Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower. DVD. 143 min. History Channel.

Republican Virginia

  • A midwife's tale [videorecording] / Blueberry Hill Productions ; Filmmakers Collaborative ; directed by Richard P. Rogers ; written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt.  Available in Hornbake Non-print media room. (88 min)

Rhetoric of the Revolution

  • Benjamin Franklin [videorecording] / produced & directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer/co-producer, Ronald Blumer ; a production of Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul/Minneapolis in association with Middlemarch Films, Inc.  Episode 2: "The Making of a Revolutionary." 66 min.
  • Thomas Jefferson [videorecording] / a production of Florentine Films ; a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns, Camilla Rockwell ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced in association with WETA-TV.  (180 min.)
  • The reluctant revolutionaries [videorecording] / produced and directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer, Ronald Blumer ; a production of KTCA-TV in association with Middlemarch Films ; Twin Cities Public TV. Available in Hornbake Non-print Media room. 60 min.
  • Blows must decide [videorecording] / produced and directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer, Ronald Blumer ; a production of KTCA-TV in association with Middlemarch Films ; Twin Cities Public TV. Available in Hornbake Non-print Media room. 60 min.

Creating the National Community

  • Are we to be a nation? [videorecording] / produced and directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer, Ronald Blumer ; a production of KTCA-TV in association with Middlemarch Films ; Twin Cities Public TV. Available in Hornbake Non-Print Media room. 60 min.

The Silver Orators and the National Public Sphere

The Rhetoric of the American Frontier

The Rhetoric of the Reform Community

  • John Brown’s holy war [videorecording] / produced and directed by Robert Kenner. PBS video. Available at Hornbake Library. 85 min.

Rhetoric in the Slave Community

  • Frederick Douglass :when the lion wrote history. [videorecording]. Produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell. ROJA Productions and WETA-TV. Available at Hornbake Library. 90 min.
  • "Brotherly love." Produced and directed by Jacquie Jones. Part 3 of Africans in America : America’s journey through slavery [videorecording]. Written by Steve Fayer ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH Boston. 90 min.

Rhetoric of the Cavalier Community

  • Gone with the wind [videorecording] / a Selznick International Picture in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by David O. Selznick ; screen play by Sidney Howard ; directed by Victor Fleming. Available at Hornbake Non-print media room. 233 min. Watch part I. Reasonable portrayal of cavalier life. Hollywood has, of course, done its thing.

Lincoln's Rhetoric

  • "1863:the universe of battle" [videorecording]. Aa Florentine Films production ; a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken and Ric Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ric Burns with Ken Burns. Program 10 of The Civil War. Available in Hornbake Non-print media room. 95 min.
  • Abraham Lincoln:a new birth of freedom. [videorecording]. producers, Bill Jersey & Judith Leonard ; writers, Bill Jersey ... [et al.] ; produced by Quest Productions, Inc., Judith Leonard Productions. Available in Hornbake Non-Print Media room. 60 min.

The Rhetoric of the Entrepreneurial Community

  • Mr. Sears' catalogue [videorecording] / written and produced by Edward Gray and Mark Obenhaus ; directed by Edward Gray and Ken Levis ; an Obenhaus Films, Inc. production.  (58 min)
  • The richest man in the world  [videorecording] / written, produced, and directed by Austin Hoyt ; a production of WGBH/Boston.  (129 min)

The Rhetoric of American Labor

  • "The Homestead Strike." DVD. Program 4 of the 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America series. History Channel, A&E Home Video. Available in Hornbake Non-print Media room. 60 minutes
  • Mill times [videorecording] / produced and directed by Larry Klein. PBS video. Available in Hornbake Non-print Media room. 60 min.
  • Journey to America [videorecording]. Presented by WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York, and KCET/Los Angeles ; a film by Charles Guggenheim ; a production of Guggenheim Productions, Inc. Available in Hornbake Non-print media room. 60 min.

Women's Search for Public Life

  • One woman, one vote [videorecording] / an Educational Film Center production ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and produced by Ruth Pollak ; written by Felicia M. Widmann.  (114 min)
  • Not for ourselves alone:the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony [videorecording]. A Florentine Films production ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Paul Barnes, Ken Burns ; produced in association with WETA-TV, Washington.  (210 min)

The Farmers Movement