{"product_id":"the-forgotten-village-life-in-a-mexican-village-9780143117186","title":"The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village","description":"The novelist who wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e and the director who produced \u003ci\u003eCrisis \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLights Out in Europe\u003c\/i\u003e combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/i\u003e is unique among them in that Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/i\u003e was made have a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in typical documentary films of the time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From this wealth of pictures, 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck's text. This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master storytellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-464318\"\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143117186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143117181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004000\"\u003eFilm | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC026020\"\u003eSociology | Rural\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC002010\"\u003eAnthropology | Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, \u003ci\u003eCup of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, \u003ci\u003eThe Pastures of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) and \u003ci\u003eTo a God Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Long Valley \u003c\/i\u003e(1938). Popular success and financial security came only with \u003ci\u003eTortilla Flat\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), stories about Monterey's paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: \u003ci\u003eIn Dubious Battle \u003c\/i\u003e(1936), \u003ci\u003eOf Mice and Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than 30 years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosa Harvan Kline\u003c\/b\u003e was a film producer and photographer. She produced the documentary films \u003ci\u003eCrisis \u003c\/i\u003e(1939) and \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Village \u003c\/i\u003e(1941)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Hackensmid \u003c\/b\u003e(1907-2004) was a film director and cinematographer best known for \u003ci\u003eCrisis \u003c\/i\u003e(1939)\u003ci\u003e, The Forgotten Village \u003c\/i\u003e(1941), and \u003ci\u003eMeshes in the Afternoon \u003c\/i\u003e(1946).","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48459889541357,"sku":"9780143117186","price":21.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_0907fc91-9c28-4b4a-8554-057fc83bd59c.jpg?v=1753652403","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-forgotten-village-life-in-a-mexican-village-9780143117186","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}