to escape to crippling, to being sold and death. The one thing that shocked me the most was how the KKK was involved in that family's life. When there were funny moments, I laughed and when there were sad moments, I wept. To sum it up: Roots is a masterful miniseries that no fami...
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and comes to a very bad end with Dr. Waller (Reynolds in the miniseries) who won’t sell it to Fiddler except for double the originally agreed-upon price. The novel indicates, through Fiddler’s poignant dialogue, that this is due chiefly to the slave-price inflation of that day, spurred...
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This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's fictional novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family and additional material by him. Directed by: John Erman (eps. 1, 3, 4, 7)Charles S. Dubin (ep. 2)Georg Stanford Brown (ep. 5)Lloyd Richards (...
While some of the character names have been changed from Haley’s book and some of the extraneously added characters from the 1977 miniseries have been removed — Sorry, fans of Ed Asner’s Captain Davies, created to salve the audience’s white guilt — the plot and its essential structure...
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is anovelwritten byAlex Haleyand first published in1976. It was adapted into a hugely popular, 12-hour televisionminiseries, also calledRoots, in 1977, and a 14-hour sequel,Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979. Plot introduction Brought up on the stor...
However, even Alex Haley's monumental franchise on US slavery comes under fire. Roots , the 1977 ABC miniseries based on Haley's novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976), aired to a record number of households, ... CJ Nichole - 《American Literary History》 被引量: 1发表:...
内容提示: 1 Roots: The Saga of an American Family (First edition cover) Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It was adapted into a hugely popular, 12-hour television miniseries, also called Roots, in 1977, and a 14-hour...
1、.Roots: The Saga of an American Family(First edition cover)Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It was adapted into a hugely popular, 12-hour television miniseries, also called Roots, in 1977, and a 14-hour sequel, ...