Willa Cather Program
Video Clip List
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| Clip # |
Start Time
| End Time
| Description
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| 1 |
1:44.6 |
2:28.6 |
The themes that Willa Cather dealt with in her works
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| 2 |
2:27.0 |
3:54.0 |
Description of her family and brief timeline of their time in Red Cloud |
| 3 |
3:54.0 |
4:22.1 |
Her relationship with Red Cloud and her sense of different-ness |
| 4 |
5:18.9 |
5:54.5 |
How many works did she write- novels, short stories- with a discussion of her greatest novels
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| 5 |
6:38.2 |
7:25.7 |
Historical background of Red Cloud during her time and how she weaves this history into her works |
| 6 |
8:20.0 |
9:17.1 |
Discussion of Cather living in New York with her companion |
| 7 |
11:30.1 |
12:26.7 |
Cather's respect for the capability of women
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| 8 |
15:04.0 |
15:40.0 |
How important was Red Cloud in Cather's novels? Discussion of the real people that became characters in her novels |
| 9 |
16:16.1 |
16:34.1 |
Who was Antonia? |
| 10 |
17:35.5 |
18:29.1 |
What year was she born? Brief history of her life and Nebraska during her time there |
| 11 |
22:28.1 |
23:29.8 |
Cather writes for college newspaper- how this launches her writing career and eventually editing career
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| 12 |
24:20 |
25:14 |
Initial impressions of Red Cloud
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| 13 |
26:36.9 |
27:22.9 |
Discussion of the interesting places she did her writing
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| 14 |
28:30.1 |
30:46.4 |
What were her politics? How did her place in the pioneer generation influence her? |
| 15 |
30:46.4 |
31:31.5 |
Cather's childhood home and discussion of it- an outside view of it |
| 16 |
33:00.1 |
34:10.2 |
Did Cather feel accepted as an artist in her own community? Success and explanation of "mind over Nebraska"
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| 17 |
34:44.0 |
35:14.9 |
Political atmosphere of the US in 1913. The Progressive Era and Reformist impulses |
| 18 |
37:57.5 |
38:40.8 |
Who was Edith Lewis? |
| 19 |
39:07.5 |
39:42.1 |
Did Cather bring new thought to our country through her writing? Did she matter politically? |
| 20 |
42:14.8 |
43:31.0 |
Steve Ryan in the parlor of her childhood home. This house appears in many of her stories |
| 21 |
45:28.0 |
45:55.7 |
Discussion of her personality. She was strong, determined and brave |
| 22 |
49:21.9 |
49:56.8 |
Where does the name Red Cloud come from? |
| 23 |
51:36.0 |
53:14.1 |
Who was Isabel McClum? |
| 24 |
53:14.2 |
54:07.1 |
Steve Ryan explains the Cather's dining room and how it relates to Willa's life |
| 25 |
55:29.6 |
55:56.8 |
Walt Whitman's relationship to O Pioneers! and discussion of the number of works Willa wrote |
| 26 |
1:03:16 |
1:03:48 |
How Cather uses foils in her novels with a focus on the foils in Death Comes to the Archbishop |
| 27 |
1:03:48 |
1:04:39 |
Who is Grandma Boek? |
| 28 |
1:05:48 |
1:06:01 |
Who lived in the house with the Cathers? |
| 29 |
1:08:22 |
1:09:07 |
Did Cather travel to Europe? Her relationship with Kipling |
| 30 |
1:12:39 |
1:13:18 |
The "Nebraska Character" as created by Cather |
| 31 |
1:15:00 |
1:15:37 |
Discussion of her poetry |
| 32 |
1:16:43 |
1:17:20 |
Cather as a storyteller; her attention to details, people, time and her view of life through the eyes of the common people |
| 33 |
1:22:11 |
1:23:05 |
Willa's own room with an interesting story behind the wallpaper in her room |
| 34 |
1:24:00 |
1:25:02 |
Photo of Cather at the time she was calling herself William Cather, MD. The story behind her boy-like haircut |
| 35 |
1:26:48 |
1:28:37 |
Cather and spirituality; land and nature as divine. Discussion of her own life with religion
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| 36 |
1:32:00 |
1:33:15 |
Stills with biographical information about Willa Cather |
| 37 |
1:33:15 |
1:34:05 |
Stills with historical information about the time period |
| 38 |
1:34:17 |
1:34:26 |
Chart with facts about O Pioneers! |
| 39 |
1:35:32 |
1:36:06 |
How Cather helps people today understand the pioneer period |
| 40 |
1:36:21 |
1:37:06 |
How did Cather fit in during the late 1890s and early 1900s?
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| 41 |
1:37:37 |
1:39:36 |
Was Cather a lesbian? Discussion of her sexuality |
| 42 |
1:39:37 |
1:40:43 |
Why is the population in Nebraska declining? |
| 43 |
1:41:11 |
1:42:00 |
Reading from Lucy Gayheart; a reflection on small towns
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| 44 |
1:45:44 |
1:45:53 |
Did she write an autobiography? |
| 45 |
1:47:31 |
1:48:28 |
Discussion of her influence on other writers |
| 46 |
1:49:12 |
1:50:04 |
The impact of her books on readers |
| 47 |
1:50:46 |
1:51:50 |
Description of Willa at her high school graduation with a reading of her speech |
| 48 |
1:57:32 |
1:28:23 |
How old was Willa when she wrote My Antonia and general comments about it |
| 49 |
1:58:40 |
1:59:21 |
Cather and her siblings and the involvement of her family in her foundation |
| 50 |
1:59:56 |
2:00:39 |
Reading of "the heart" of O Pioneers! |
| 51 |
2:02:37 |
2:03:13 |
Did she get reviewed in the newspapers and magazines of her time? |
| 52 |
2:03:35 |
2:05:03 |
The influence of Sarah Orne Jewett on Willa and her role as an advisor to Willa |
| 53 |
2:07:27 |
2:08:31 |
Willa Cather's gravesite |
| 54 |
2:10:00 |
2:10:54 |
It is difficult to label Cather and a mistake to see her only as a lesbian |
| 55 |
2:19:16 |
2:20:03 |
What is the Memorial Prairie? |
| 56 |
2:21:07 |
2:21:36 |
How does the male voice in Antonionia tie in with her elusiveness in all her works? |
| 57 |
2:24:04 |
2:24:08 |
Discussion of her experience with the Native Americans and how they are portrayed in her later works |
| 58 |
2:29:09 |
2:29:38 |
Brief summary of her life in Red Cloud |
| 59 |
2:30:00 |
2:30:30 |
Discussion of her position on politics in the 1930s and how people misrepresented her politics
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