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The Hesitant Hero
Series title:ExplorationsHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):70165Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTOAccession:1984-0286Media:VideoRelease date:1985-05-04Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:producer, Gordon Babineau; technical producer, Bob Helm; supervising producer, Bernard Trotter; production assistants, J.W. Baillie; Mary Wraggette; script, Robert Fulford; host, Robert Brustein; program organizer, Eric KochCast credit:Bruno Gerussi; Anna Reiser; Deborah TurnbullDescription:Television program with host Robert Brustein, actor and Professor of drama at Columbia University, who looks at the typical characteristics of the new North American hero, the downtrodden uneducated proleterian rebel, as he is so often portrayed in recent plays and movies. Brustein traces him back to "Yank" in O'Neill's "Hairy Ape" of 1922; later to "Joe" in Odet's "Golden Boy"; then to "Stanley Kowalski" played by Marlon Brando in Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire"; "Hal" in William Inge's "Picnic"; and "Johnny" in Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain". Scenes from these plays are recreated to illustrate Brustein's character analysis of what he calls the "hesitant hero". <30mn>Subjects:HEROES IN LITERATURE~HEROES IN MOTION PICTURES ~BRUSTEIN, ROBERT~GERUSSI, BRUNO~REISER, ANNA~TURNBULL, DEBORAHLanguage:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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