PresentationTitle
Film Screenings: William Faulkner of Oxford and The Reivers
Location
University of Mississippi. Center for Continuation Study
Start Date
1-8-1976 8:00 PM
Description
- William Faulkner of Oxford. 1952. Produced for the Ford Foundation Workshop. William Faulkner, among his lifetime neighbors in his home town of Oxford, Miss., speaks of the power and the will of man to choose right from wrong and his responsibility to see that "justice and truth and pity and compassion are done." Includes footage from the Nobel Prize award ceremony in 1950.
- The Reivers. 1969. Directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen. Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Ford Foundation Workshop; Faulkner, William; Rydell, Mark; and McQueen, Steve, "Film Screenings: William Faulkner of Oxford and The Reivers" (1976). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 3.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/1976/schedule/3
COinS
Aug 1st, 8:00 PM
Film Screenings: William Faulkner of Oxford and The Reivers
University of Mississippi. Center for Continuation Study
- William Faulkner of Oxford. 1952. Produced for the Ford Foundation Workshop. William Faulkner, among his lifetime neighbors in his home town of Oxford, Miss., speaks of the power and the will of man to choose right from wrong and his responsibility to see that "justice and truth and pity and compassion are done." Includes footage from the Nobel Prize award ceremony in 1950.
- The Reivers. 1969. Directed by Mark Rydell, starring Steve McQueen. Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.