Biography - John Steinbeck: An American Writer (A&E DVD Archives)
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Actor: Biography, John SteinbeckDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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Summary: 3 Stars
I've never read any of the author's work. Still, I found this informative. Honestly, his life wasn't as interesting as the ones lead by Hemingway or Faulkner. I imagine that this documentary would be great viewing for a high school English course or introductory English course at the college level.
Like Robert Redford, Steinbeck grew up around many Mexican Americans and included them in his work. Southern gothics and imminent Bostonians to the side, Steinbeck was a West Coaster, like Gertrude Stein. Instead of having cheesy reenactments, this documentary often used Californian landscapes as a backdrop. Like most of the Biography series, the interviewees consisted of men and women, biographers and descendants.
This work said that his detractors called him a Communist. Many artists in the mid-20th Century faced this accusation. They either were falsely accused or were punished for past membership in the Party. Here, this work never answers whether Steinbeck was a Communist. Yes, maybe he wasn't fazed by such an allegation. However, the Biography series often waters down its subject's leftism and I wonder if they purposely omitted this information in order to make apolitical or conservative viewers comfortable.
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