Masterpieces of the imaginative mind.  literature's most fantastic works /  [videorecording] : 
 Literature's most fantastic works 
Eric S. Rabkin. 
 - Library ed. 
 - Chantilly, VA :  Teaching Co.,  c2007. 
 - 4 videodiscs :  sd., col. ;  4 3/4 in. +  2 course guidebooks. 
 - Great courses .
 - Great courses. .
<br/><br/> "Literature & English language"--Container insert. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-71) in accompanying guidebook. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: Disc 1. lecture 1. The Brothers Grimm & fairy tale psychology -- lecture 2. Propp, structure, and cultural identity -- lecture 3. Hoffman and the theory of the fantastic -- lecture 4. Poe : genres and degrees of the fantastic -- lecture 5. Lewis Carroll : puzzles, language, & audience -- lecture 6. H.G. Wells : we are all talking animals ; Disc 2. lecture 7. Franz Kafka : dashed fantasies -- lecture 8. Woolf : fantastic feminism & periods of art -- lecture 9. Robbe-Grillet : experimental fiction & myth -- lecture 10. Tolkien & mass production of the fantastic -- lecture 11. Children's literature and the fantastic -- lecture 12. Postmodernism and the fantastic ; Part 2: Disc 3. lecture 13. Defining science fiction -- lecture 14. Mary Shelley : grandmother of science fiction -- lecture 15. Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden complex -- lecture 16. Jules Verne and the Robinsonade -- lecture 17. Wells : industrialization of the fantastic -- lecture 18. The history of utopia ; Disc 4. lecture 19. Science fiction and religion -- lecture 20. Pulp fiction, Bradbury, & the American myth -- lecture 21. Robert A. Heinlein : he mapped the future -- lecture 22. Asimov and Clarke : cousins in utopia -- lecture 23. Ursula K. Le Guin : transhuman anthropologist -- lecture 24. Cyberpunk, postmodernism, and beyond. 
<br/><br/>Lecturer: Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan. 
<br/><br/> University of Michigan professor Eric S. Rabkin discusses the fantastic in its most important modern variety, science fiction, as part of the entire course on fantasy literature. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1598032909 (set) 9781598032901 (set) 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>2997  Teaching Co. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Fantasy literature--History and criticism.<br/>Science fiction--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fantasy fiction--History and criticism --Videorecordings.<br/>Fantasy literature--History and criticism --Videorecordings.<br/>Science fiction--History and criticism --Videorecordings.<br/>DVD videodiscs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DVD PN 3435 .M37 2007