ALICE - THE COMPANION SET (2 DVD)

RUNTIME: 155 MINS

CAT: AWA226
UPC: 881482322695
RRP: $29.95

Two programs that set out to elucidate Lewis Carroll's marvellously witty and logically convoluted works, and their sources of inspiration.

ALICE
‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ was published in 1865, and revolutionized children's writing. This program explores the tragic and impossible love affair that underlay the creation of this work of comic and verbal genius. It also investigates the influences that helped form the attitudes of the brilliant Oxford don who gave birth to a unique world whose influence on every form of creative media can hardly be overestimated.

THE LIFE OF LEWIS CARROLL
Lewis Carroll was a truly gifted man, an accomplished writer and photographer, as well as a mathematician, logician and an Anglican deacon. But the real man, Charles Dodgson, did his best to distance himself from his nom-de-plume, being of a shy disposition and afflicted with a stutter. Despite these disabilities and his conservative viewpoints, he lived a very different life from what might be expected of a bachelor don.