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ASU English Home > ASU Watches a Literary Classic Hit the Small Screen ASU Watches a Literary Classic Hit the Small Screen James Hathaway, 480-965-6375 March 3, 2005 Oprah’s Presentation of Hurston Literary Classic a Teaching Moment for ASU Generally, college students are not encouraged to watch television – professors would prefer that they keep their noses inside books instead – but a movie that is airing this Sunday is an exception. Arizona State University’s Department of English, along with ASU Film & Media Studies, the Department of History, the Women’s Studies Program, Harper Collins Publishers, Bedford, Freeman, & Worth Publishers, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, ASU African & African American Studies, Allyn & Bacon/Longman Publishers, and the Co-Curricular Program, are encouraging students to play hooky for while on the evening of Sunday, March 6 and watch the “Oprah Winfrey Presents” telefilm of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the ASU Memorial Union TV Lounge, and will include a pre-and post-program discussion by English Department Chair Professor Neal A. Lester, an authority on African American literature. Airing on the ABC network and starring Halle Berry, Michael Ealy, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Ruby Dee, the film is based on the 1937 classic novel by Hurston, a star of the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. The film depicts the timeless, lyrical and passionate story of a woman's quest for love and spiritual fulfillment, despite society's expectations and prescriptions for African Americans and women in 1920’s America. Though the film is clearly intended to entertain a TV audience, ASU scholars see the broadcast as a teaching moment because it marks the first time this literary classic has been produced for the broad public. The event is free and open to the public and students of literature of all ages are invited to attend. For more info call 965-9600 or visit www.asu.edu/partnerships.
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