Thomas Mann's The magic mountain
By: produced & directed by David Thomas ; written & adapted by David Thomas and Gillian Greenwood ; a LWT production for Channel 4 in association with RM Arts and Radio Telefis Eireann
Contributors: Shrapnel, John; Daniels, Ben, 1964-; Grillo, John, 1942-; Hamilton, Nigel; Films for the Humanities (Firm); RM Arts (Firm); Reiner Moritz Associates; London Weekend Television, ltd; Channel Four (Great Britain); Radio Telefis Eireann
Series: Films for the Humanities & Sciences DVD collection; Ten great writers of the modern world; Modern world, ten great writers
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Thomas Mann :; Magic mountain
Description: "A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a bird's-eye view of the political, philosophical, and social landscapes of pre-World War I Europe. This vintage program uses provocative dramatizations of key scenes from Thomas Mann's grotesque bildungsroman and employs the character of Mann himself, in a re-creation of a 1939 lecture, as a guide to the story's heights and depths. In addition, Mann's biographer, Nigel Hamilton, inquires into the story's manipulation of time and the effects of environment on identity."--Container.
Notes: Originally relased as a videocassette in 1987.

Rostrum camera, Ken Morse ; film editor, Tim Pearce ; series editor, Melvyn Bragg ; series consultant, Malcolm Bradbury.

Commentator: Nigel Hamilton, Mann's biographer.

John Shrapnel, Ben Daniels, John Grillo, Tim McInnerny, Iain Cuthbertson, Paul Brooke, Haydn Gwynne, Pippa Vickers.

DVD-R, Region 1.