Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

5/1/1985 - 8/31/1986

Funding Totals

$1,200,000.00 (approved)
$1,200,000.00 (awarded)


Masterworks of American Fiction (Production, TV, Drama)

FAIN: GN-22321-85

Learning in Focus, Inc. (New York, NY 10017)
Robert Geller (Project Director: September 1984 to May 1987)

To support the production of three feature-length television films adapted fromHenry James's THE AMERICAN, Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING, and Saul Bellow's SEIZE THE DAY. These films will be the first three programs in a series of adaptations of major American novels.