Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

12/1/1984 - 11/30/1986

Funding Totals

$248,127.00 (approved)
$248,127.00 (awarded)


The Great American Language: A Documentary on US Dialects (Production: TV Documentary)

FAIN: GN-22212-85

Center for New American Media, Inc. (New York, NY 10018-3005)
Louis Alvarez (Project Director: February 1984 to March 1987)

To support production of a 60-minute documentary on the subject of regional differences in American English and their relationships to social and cultural values in the United States.





Associated Products

American Tongues (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: American Tongues
Writer: Louis Alvarez
Abstract: Peabody Award
Year: 1986

Prizes

Peabody Award
Date: 1/1/1986
Organization: University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication