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Title The botany of desire [videorecording] / produced by Kikem Media ; produced & directed by Michael Schwarz.

Imprint [Arlington, Va.?] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  306.45 B657 2009    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, Region 1, NTSC, widescreen; Dolby 2.0 stereo.
Language Closed-captioned.
Performer Michael Pollan.
Credits Directors of photography, John Chater, Vicente Franco; editors, Don Bernier, Gail Huddleson; original score, Martin Bresnick ; narrator, Frances McDormand.
Note Based on the book by Michael Pollan.
Originally produced for television in 2009.
Audience Rating: TV-PG.
Contents Introduction -- Apples: the desire for sweetness -- Apples as a commodity -- Tulips: the desire for beauty -- Breeding tulips -- Marijuana: the desire for intoxication -- The science behind marijuana -- Potatoes: the desire for control -- Today's potato monoculture -- The web of life.
Summary Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip markets of Amsterdam.
Note Bonus features: deleted scenes; panel discussion on the interdisciplinary importance of The Botany of desire (19 min.); additional interview with Michael Pollan (29 min.)
Subject Pollan, Michael -- Television adaptations.
Human-plant relationships.
Apples.
Tulips.
Cannabis.
Marijuana.
Potatoes.
Nature.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television adaptations.
Nature television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Pollan, Michael.
McDormand, Frances, 1957-
Schwarz, Michael, producer.
Pollan, Michael. Botany of desire.
Kikim Media (Firm)
PBS Distribution (Firm)
ISBN 0793670845
9780793670840
Standard No. 841887010856
Music No. TBOD601 PBS

 
    
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