The Adventures of Saul Bellow | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS

Explore the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner’s impact on American literature in the first-ever major documentary on the writer. American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow illuminates how Bellow transformed modern literature and navigated through the issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience, through rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many others.
The film traces Bellow's rise to eminence and examines his many identities: reluctant public intellectual, “serial husband,” father, Chicagoan and Jewish American. It also sheds light on his willingness to confront social issues, his criticisms of American society and materialism and his provocative political view.
American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow premieres nationwide Monday, December 12 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS Video App.
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Now in its 36th season on PBS, American Masters was recently nominated for an IDA Award, two Primetime Emmy® Awards and was awarded two News & Documentary Emmys. The series illuminates the lives and creative journeys of our nation’s most enduring artistic giants-those who have left an indelible impression on our cultural landscape-through compelling, unvarnished stories. Setting the standard for documentary film profiles, the series has earned widespread critical acclaim and 28 Emmy Awards-including 10 for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series and five for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special-14 Peabodys, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, an Oscar, and many other honors. To further explore the lives and works of more than 250 masters past and present, the American Masters website offers full episodes, film outtakes, filmmaker interviews, the podcast American Masters: Creative Spark, educational resources, digital original series and more. The series is a production of The WNET Group.

[@theotherguy5516]

Hasn't Mr Bellow's opening quotation come to pass? The writer, no matter her medium, is utterly insignificant now, and the businessmen have stepped into the void where thinking used to take place with their particular morality -- and what do we have? Endless consumerism, people turning themselves into brands, the discord of social media, as empty and poisonous a vessel as one could ever hope to find, spilling out into our homes, workplaces, institutions, and culture. And all hell has broken loose.

[@georgerafael]

please, please show this in the uk.