Show A r i q i i r r I j S f 1 Y r r s i v plow t Tb K e c A Fen FOIt fie 4 Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities the AMERICAN SHORT STORIES series was aired for the first time last year over PBS affiliated television television television sion stations across the country Now a unique paperback edition called The American Short Story has been issued by De Dell Publishing Company as an outgrowth of the video films The new volume draws together under one cover nine short stories written by prominent American authors which were used as the basis of the week six-week television series American authors represented in the book are F. F Scott Fitzgerald Sherwood Anderson Ernest Hemingway Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard Wright Ambrose Bierce Henry James Stephen Crane Flannery OConnor O'Connor and John Updike Their stories are Bernice Bernice Bernice Ber- Ber nice Bobs Her Hair Im I'm a Fool Soldiers Soldier's Home Almos' Almos a aMan aMan Man Parker Parker- arker Adderson Adderson Philosopher The J Jolly Corner The B Blue ue Hotel The Displaced Person and The Music School In addition to the authors' authors texts The American Short Story c contains three complete te teleplays These are Bernice Bobs Her Hair by Joan Silver Soldiers Soldier's Home by Robert Geller and The Music School by John Korty Representative tive scenes from each of the other six stories include teleplay teleplay teleplay tele- tele play excerpts from Im I'm a Fool by Ron Cowen Almos' Almos a M Manby Man n by bv Leslie Lee Park Parker r Adderson Philosopher by Arthur Barron Barron Barron Bar- Bar ron ron- The Blue Hotel by H. H M. M The Displaced Person Person Person Per- Per son by Horton Foote and Th The Jolly Corner by Arthur Barron Barren The American Sh Short Story contains a forward a S by Robert Geller filler executive Producer of the AMERICAN T SHORT STORIES seri series s an introduction by Calvin Skaggs C Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- h hman man of the Literary ADvisory Committee which participated in script development and interpretive essays and interviews interviews interviews inter inter- views with Jan Kadar Hor Horton n Foote and Joan Mi klin Silver f writers or and-or directors of teleplays of The American Short Story presents the read- read reader reader Pr er with a happy marriage of original ori nal text and n teleplay It is fascinating for example to read John Updike's Updike s Music School as he wrote it then to reread it with th its parallel action as presented on television The rereading ading is accomplished by y printing the teleplay actions on the left of aw the the page w while e carrying the narrative on the right One benefit m in using this Cant Cont on page 6 e r I 1 V i t y v r I t 2 by Chip Lacure This week I felt discriminated discriminated discriminated against because of a parking incident I have to go goto goto goto to the University Med Center Center Center Cen Cen- ter as a part of my schooling here at The discrimination discrimination na nation tion as I saw it came when the coordinator of parking parking parking park park- ing services told me to either Cont e I HUMANITIES Cont from pg 1 format is that such a careful rereading brings a new perspective perspective perspective pers pers- to the meaning of the original words The American Short Story was developed in response to requests from individual viewers and schools and colleges throughout the country The stories which span the past century century century cen cen- tury present dramatic insights ts into the lifestyles and social issues of the American people It If is this collective examination examination examina examina- tion of American culture which led the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide funds for the first television series on the subject The National Endowment considers the AMERICAN RICAN SHORT STORIES grant to be a good example of the expanding expanding expanding ding influence of humanities on this country The Humanities Humanities Humanities ties award of just over two million dollars which was made to Learning in Focus in New York provided a television series which reached millions of Americans during its first showing and millions more during its rebroadcast That successful successful successful suc suc- series in turn led to the production of a useful and enjoyable book and to plans for combining the television reruns reruns reruns re re- re- re runs with both credit and non-credit non courses at some of the nations nation's colleges The National Endowment for the Humanities has provided a second grant of to in Focus for pre pre- production work on another short story series as well as a ama ma matching hing grant of for production The eight stories for this second series are re in the process of being selected The American Short Story is the first dramatic series seen on U US U.S. S public television to have been purchased by BBC II for presentation in the United Kingdom |