PresentationTitle
Film screenings. William Faulkner of Oxford and William Faulkner's Mississippi
Location
E. F. Yerby Center for Continuation Study, University of Mississippi
Start Date
31-7-1977 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.
- William Faulkner's Mississippi. 1965. Originally produced by Metropolitan Broadcasting Television. Examines the southern heritage of William Faulkner, and explores the underlying reasons and the results of the resistance to desegregation by the people of Mississippi and of the South, as interpreted in Faulkner's writings. Narrators: Montgomery Clift, Zachary Scott, Robert Guenette.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Ford Foundation Workshop and Metropolitan Broadcasting Television, "Film screenings. William Faulkner of Oxford and William Faulkner's Mississippi" (1977). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 3.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/1977/schedule/3
COinS
Jul 31st, 8:00 PM
Film screenings. William Faulkner of Oxford and William Faulkner's Mississippi
E. F. Yerby Center for Continuation Study, University of Mississippi
- 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.
- William Faulkner's Mississippi. 1965. Originally produced by Metropolitan Broadcasting Television. Examines the southern heritage of William Faulkner, and explores the underlying reasons and the results of the resistance to desegregation by the people of Mississippi and of the South, as interpreted in Faulkner's writings. Narrators: Montgomery Clift, Zachary Scott, Robert Guenette.