Title Work: Huckleberry Finn and the American experience

Title No: 5509

Title: Huckleberry Finn and the American experience

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Date: 1968  (Release)

"Relates 'Huckleberry Finn' to contemporary experience to account for its durability. Discusses the book as a possible national epic. Clifton Fadiman narrates. From the Humanity series."--Audiovisual Materials Catalog 2002-2007 by Audiovisual Services of St. Louis Public Schools.

"Conflicts in American society, freedom and conformity, culture and hardy virtues, security and violence, are illustrated in the novel."--WorldCat.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 26 min 

Genres: Educational

Subjects: Adventure stories, American--History and criticism ; National characteristics, American, in literature ; Fugitive slaves in literature ; Race relations in literature ; African Americans in literature ; Whites in literature ; Literature and society--United States--History--19th century

Name As Subjects: Twain, Mark