Editing Walt Whitman (section)

===Film and television===
Whitman's life and verse have been referenced in a substantial number of works of film and video. In ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'' (1989) by [[Peter Weir]], teacher John Keating, portrayed by [[Robin Williams]], inspires his students with the works of Whitman, [[Henry David Thoreau|Thoreau]], [[Robert Frost|Frost]], [[Shakespeare]] and [[Lord Byron|Byron]].<ref name="Britton" /><ref name="Wilmington">{{cite news |last1=Wilmington |first1=Michael |date=June 2, 1989 |title=Movie Review: 'Poets Society': A Moving Elegy From Peter Weir |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-02-ca-1055-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416024446/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-02-ca-1055-story.html |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date=October 10, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Alex |date=18 September 2018 |title=The Book List: The poems that give 'Dead Poets Society' life |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/dead-poets-society-poems-robin-williams-walt-whitman-a8542921.html |website=independent.co.uk}}</ref>

In the movie ''[[Beautiful Dreamers]]'' (Hemdale Films, 1992) Whitman was portrayed by [[Rip Torn]]. Whitman visits an insane asylum in [[London, Ontario]], where some of his ideas are adopted as part of an [[occupational therapy]] program.<ref name="Britton">{{cite book |last1=Britton |first1=Wesley A. |editor-last1=LeMaster |editor-first1=J. R. |editor-last2=Kummings |editor-first2=Donald D. |title=Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia|chapter=Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works |date=1998 |publisher=Garland Publishing |location=New York |url=https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_537.html |access-date=October 10, 2020}}</ref>

Whitman's poem "Yonnondio" influenced both a [[Yonnondio|book]] (''Yonnondio: From the Thirties'', 1974) by [[Tillie Olsen]] and a sixteen-minute film, ''Yonnondio'' (1994) by Ali Mohamed Selim.<ref name="Britton"/>

Whitman's poem "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855) was used by [[Ray Bradbury]] as the title of a short story and a short story collection. Bradbury's story was adapted for the ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|Twilight Zone]]'' [[I Sing the Body Electric (The Twilight Zone)|episode of May 18, 1962]], in which a bereaved family buys a made-to-order robot grandmother to forever love and serve the family.<ref name="Jewell">{{cite book|author-first1=Andrew |author-last1=Jewell |author-first2=Kenneth M. |author-last2=Price|chapter=Twentieth Century Mass Media Appearances |editor-first=Donald D.|editor-last=Kummings|title=A Companion to Walt Whitman|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uTCiN347lMC&pg=PA349|access-date=August 13, 2010|year=2009|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=978-1-4051-9551-5|pages=211–}}</ref>
"I Sing the Body Electric" inspired the showcase finale in the movie ''Fame'' (1980), a diverse fusion of gospel, rock, and orchestra.<ref name="Britton"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Daniel B. |title=Singing the Body Electric: Using ePortfolios to IntegrateTeaching, Learning and Assessment |journal=Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education |date=2013 |volume=IV |issue=Fall |pages=22–48 |url=https://cnu.edu/jpalhe/pdf/jpalhe_volume4.pdf |access-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012065109/https://cnu.edu/jpalhe/pdf/jpalhe_volume4.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>