Film showing of:
Call number: ZVC 7031
Title: Le Morte d'Arthur [videorecording] : the legend of the
king
Discovery Communications, Inc. ; written and directed by Dale Minor ;
producers, Dale Minor, Linda Duvoisin.
Edition Discovery Channel collector's ed.
Imprint: Bethesda, Md. : Distributed by Discovery Program
Enterprises, 1993.
Physical Description: 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2
in.
Series: (Great books)
Notes: Donald Sutherland. Cinematographer, Ian Salvage ; music, Frank
Ferrucci ; editor, Loye Miller. Based on the book: Le Morte d'Arthur,
by Sir Thomas Malory.
VHS.
Contents notes: Explore the story of King Arthur and the knights of
the Round Table, with the evidence of the history underlying the
legend and a trip to the possible site of Camelot.
For discussion:
1. Leslie Alcot (David Dumville), Geoffrey Asche, Norris Lacy,
George Lucas.
2. "Historic Arthur and Camelot, " Malory's Morte, Tennyson's
Idylls, Lucas'Star Wars
3. Satire and Parody: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Twain's
Connecticut Yankee, Monty Python, Las Vegas.
4. Restructuring Morte: Books 1-V (Arthur & Round Table),
Chivalry, Death and tragedy of Arthur, Grail (reason for last
disdplacement).