National Endowment for the Arts.

An epic analysis of the American motion picture industry that combines rare archival film, key scenes from immortal movies, interviews with leading filmmakers and commentary from noted film scholars and critics.

"A documentary on the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience."--Container.

A five-lesson multimedia curriculum unit on the history of jazz in the context of American social, economic, and political developments. Each lesson includes an opening essay, a major artists section, lesson objectives, suggested steps for teaching the lesson, video, music, photographs, discussion questions, student activities, student assessment, glossary, and additional resources.

Discusses the theme and characters in Fitzgerald's novel and includes excerpts from the book and background information on the author.

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) is arguably the most widely admired American fantasy novel of the past fifty years. The book's elegant diction, geographical sweep, and mounting suspense are quite irresistible. Earthsea, composed of an archipelago of many islands, is a land of the imagination, like Oz, Faerie,...