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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 35 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from journals, letters, poetry and prose enrich this narrative biography of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte. The program introduces the sisters' major works and illuminates their basic, recurrent themes. Samples of their own art-work, on-location photography of northern England, as well as prints, paintings and sketches portray the land and the period.
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (27 min., 42 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Beverly Cleary is internationally known for her characters Ramona Quimby, Henry and Ribsy, Ralph S. Mouse, and others. Her first book, Henry Higgins, was an immediate bestseller, and changed the course of writing for children. Today, more that 91 million copies of her books and read around the world, in 14 languages. In this original documentary, filmed as Beverly Cleary was approaching her 100th birthday, enjoy a rare interview...
3) Best sellers
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
4) Alter ego
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is a story of a reclusive paranoia genius author who spends a night in his isolated mansion waiting for his creation to come and destroy him.
5) The words
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Extended special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Sharing his home is the last thing an eccentric author like Mikazuki would do until a stray cat sparks an idea for his next novel. When he invites the little furball into his life, tons of trouble comes with it!
Publisher
Cinephobia Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thriller writer Ben, struggling for inspiration, retreats to an isolated rural cabin to start on his latest novel and to escape the growing tension with his boyfriend Jamie. Working late into the night, he wakes to find a wounded man in the cabin, claiming to be a hunter whose car had broken down nearby. Intrigued and attracted to the mysterious and handsome intruder, Ben decides to secretly use him as inspiration for the antagonist in his new book,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 91 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When Paul Bowles moved to Tangiers, Morocco in 1949, it was a sanctuary for artists, writers and the wealthy to do as they pleased without fear of prosecution. Soon, his friends from America began visiting: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and many others. The Beats and the Hippies all searched him out, lured by the mysterious, exotic world he depicted in his books, notably The Sheltering...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Following the launch of her new novel, writer Kate Conklin is asked to speak at her alma mater by her old professor. Soon Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students"--Container.
10) Storymakers
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Storymakers features internationally known Australian writers and illustrators of children's books. The series is designed to develop children's awareness of how books are conceived and created, and to encourage a love of books and reading. Each film in the series highlights different aspects of the process of creating a book. A Film Australia National Interest Program. 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Janet Bell....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) -- and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Deceptive practice traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon...
Publisher
White Pine Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film explores Atwood's 'backstory,' her early days in the Canadian wilderness and as a poet. Atwood's novels are explored, including her latest, The Testaments, the highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Personal stories are shared by friends, family, and, of course, directly by Atwood herself.
13) Sinister
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
14) Long weekend
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck struggling writer, meets an enigmatic woman who enters his life at the right time.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a series of flops, New York romance novelist Dru Cassadine gets an ultimatum from her publisher: deliver a bestseller or be dropped. So Dru heads home to a quaint southern town to see friends and family she would rather avoid at Christmas, a holiday she disdains, hoping for inspiration. She does not quite get what she came for, she gets much more.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 28 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A literary biography of a seminal figure of 20th century American literature, Margaret Walker, who established one of the first Black Studies centers in the nation, and mentored the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker gives the long-overdue recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. Margaret Walker has been described by scholar Jerry Ward as "a national treasure" and by Nikki...
18) Black butterfly
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony-winning playwright and director James Lapine befriends Rose Styron, the widow of the great American novelist William Styron (Sophie₂s Choice). Rose shares the fascinating story of her complex life as a poet, journalist, human rights activist, life partner to William, and friend of the Kennedys and Clintons.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (7 pages : color illustrations; 18 cm).
Language
Türkçe
Description
An aspiring writer returns home after university and finds his ambition at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, he grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.
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