COMM 460
Fall 2014

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.
  • "A New Adam," Program 1 of God in America. Written, Produced and Directed by David Belton.  PBS.  56 minutes. available online.

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)
  • The Appalachians [videorecording] / written & produced by Phylis Geller ; a production of Evening Star Productions ; Nashville Public Television. published Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2006. Part 1. Available in Hornbake Non-print media room. (approx. 60 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." Available in Hornbake Non-print Media room. 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.  Available online through Research Port on the "American History in Video" database.(180 min.)
  • Patrick Henry: Voice of Liberty, in Biography (A&E Television Networks), 46:04 mins.  Available online through Research Port on the "American History in Video" database.
  • Jefferson. The History Channel. 2010. (120 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.
  • Declaring Independence, in The Revolution (A&E Television Networks), 45:45 mins.  Available online through Research Port on the "American History in Video" database.

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

  • Boone and Crockett: The Hunter Heroes. A&E Video Library. (100 minutes) Available through Amazon.com
  • A New Eden. Second episode in PBS' series "God in America." (appox. 60 min.) available online.

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.
  • 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)
  • A Nation Reborn. Episode 3 of PBS' series, "God in America." (approx. 60 min.) available online.

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. Remember the portrayal is shaped by the rhetoric of the Cavalier community.
  • A Nation Reborn. Episode 3 of PBS' series, "God in America." (approx. 60 min.) available online.

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.
  • "Lincoln's Legend and Legacy." Episode of Bill Moyer's Journal. Public Broadcasting System. Available online. Watch all three parts.
  • A Nation Reborn. Episode 3 of PBS' series, "God in America." (approx. 60 min.) available online.

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