American Grizzly: Frederick Manfred (Ins...

American Grizzly is a lively portrait of the novelist Frederick Manfred created by Mike Hazard and Jim Mulligan. Legendary author of Lord Grizzly, Manfred’s work is a 200 year mural of life in Siouxland from the Bad Lands to the North Woods.The director Mike Hazard writes, "This vivid video is about novels, pow wows, black comedy, American history, small towns, alimentary tracts, the lizard, folk memory, lyrical poetry, Chaucer, stoop talk, mystic meandering, leftie politics, tall tales, farm runes, Frisians, the frontier, Siouxland and Frederick Feikema Manfred."The video's structure can be divided into three roughly equal parts, built onrocks and stones. The first part is centered on the poem 'Boiling Rock,' the secondhas the legendary Blue Mounds equinoctial rock wall and the third section visits the cemetary where Manfred's plot is." American Grizzly was supported by grants from Minnesota Humanities Commission and South Dakota Humanities Coun

Channel: TV Guide Video Length: 29m 0s Date Found: Tue, Jul 05 2011 9:08 AM Category: Entertainment Date Produced: View Count: 0