La Salle Professor Bill Wine to Participate in New Television Project

Bill Wine, La Salle University communication professor and KYW Newsradio film critic, has been tapped to participate in a new public television project called Humanities Live.

Each Humanities Live program will feature a different member of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. For his program “Based on the Book: Best-Seller Cinema,” Wine will discuss the differences between reading a literary work and viewing its cinematic counterpart, and analyze how classic and modern novels have been translated into films. He will feature movies such as Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, The Da Vinci Code, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and the Harry Potter series.

“Never judge a book by its movie,” says Wine. “But it’s not a matter of one being better than the other.  We experience them differently, so we’re comparing literary apples and cinematic oranges.”
 
Humanities Live is a new venture jointly produced by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) and WHYY public television.  Hosted by WHYY’s Tracey Matisak, and filmed in front of a studio audience, Humanities Live will be broadcast on WHYY’s recently launched Y Arts digital channel (Comcast Channel 241). Wine will tape his program on May 4, 2007 for a later broadcast.

“Humanities Live is an exciting way to showcase the gifted individuals we are blessed to have in our region and state—people ready to share their lives of learning through dance, poetry, film, sports, music, and drama” said Joseph J. Kelly, Executive Director of PHC.

“Through Humanities Live, a broader public will discover, or rediscover, the pleasures of humanities learning.”