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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Spike Lee's adaptation of the Broadway show "Passing Strange" presents the portrait of a musician as a young man. In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his talents blossom, but at the expense of those who care for him. The film is based on the life of musician Stew, who appears as narrator and commentator...
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Get the Summary of Kyle Scheele's How to Host a Viking Funeral in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Host a Viking Funeral" by Kyle Scheele is a narrative about the author's personal journey of self-discovery and letting go of the past. Scheele decides to mark the end of his twenties with a Viking funeral, constructing a massive cardboard ship to symbolize the transition. Despite initial skepticism from his...
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy, bawdy and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of customers every night of the week. And yet the legacy of burlesque is often vilified, misunderstood, and left out of history. By telling intimate, surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, BEHIND THE BURLY Q reveals the true story of burlesque,...
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What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital...
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Get the Summary of Tom Segura's Id Like to Play Alone Please in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Tom Segura's book "I'd Like to Play Alone, Please" offers a candid look into his life, family, and career as a comedian. His father, a retired Marine Corps Captain, is known for his abrupt social exits and explicit discussions about his digestive health, while his mother, a Peruvian immigrant, is polite yet direct. Tom's...
8) Dad's Army
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The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring appeal.
When we laugh at Dad's Army we laugh at ourselves, and nearly fifty years after it was first broadcast, millions of us are still laughing - whenever and wherever it is repeated. With contributions from the people who planned, produced and performed the program, and material drawn from the BBC archives, acclaimed author Graham McCann has written the definitive story of a very British...
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Get the Summary of Jerry Seinfeld's Is This Anything in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Jerry Seinfeld's book "Is This Anything?" chronicles his journey from a child enamored with comedy to a stand-up comedian performing weekly and refining his craft. He reminisces about his early fascination with comedy, inspired by watching "The Ed Sullivan Show" and later by the stand-up scene in New York City. Seinfeld's philosophy...
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¿Qué relación hay entre voluntad y fe? ¿Qué hace que algo sea verosímil? ¿Qué papel ocupa la voluntad en la sugestión? El dramaturgo y director de escena Pablo Messiez escribe y dirige La voluntad de creer, una obra que toma como punto de partida Ordet, la película de Dreyer, para aproximarse a la muerte y la resurrección. Como protagonista encontramos al menor de una familia de hermanos que sostiene ser Jesús de Nazaret. Sus hermanas...
11) Up Against It
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The official tag.An account of my publicity tour to advertise a book and musical workshop by Chris Henson recorded in words and pictures, as we travelled and promoted. The unofficial tag. Up Against It is the book that possibly, finally puts a writer under the microscope following the launch of a book. A creative analysis of promotion, it examines topics such as what it takes for a book to get read, the encouragement it entails and what lays behind...
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Always put the listener first" has been NPR's mantra, since its inception in 1970. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, NPR's programming attracts over 27 million listeners every week. This beautifully designed volume chronicles NPR's storied history, featuring dozens of behind-the-scenes photos, essays and original reporting by a who's who of NPR staff and correspondents, and transcripts of memorable interviews. Beyond an entertaining and inspiring...
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Get the Summary of Joey Coco Diaz's Tremendous in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Tremendous" chronicles the tumultuous life of Joey Coco Diaz, from his troubled youth in New Jersey to his rise as a stand-up comedian. Orphaned at sixteen, Diaz's early life was steeped in drug abuse, crime, and violence, influenced by his Cuban immigrant mother's illegal gambling operations and his stepfather's criminal background....
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Get the Summary of Richard Ayoade's Ayoade on Top in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Ayoade on Top" by Richard Ayoade is a detailed critique of the 2003 film "View from the Top," starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Ayoade humorously likens reading his book to an airplane journey, as he delves into the film's narrative and its personal impact on him. He describes his meticulous preparation for watching the film and defends...
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50%-FRAUENQUOTE IN DER THEATERREGIE: DAS ENDE DER KUNST? Als die Leiterin des renommierten Berliner Theatertreffens Yvonne Büdenhölzer im Jahr 2019 die 50%-Frauenquote einführte, wurde sie scharf kritisiert. Schließlich verleitet die Quote geradezu reflexhaft zum Widerspruch: Trifft die eingeladenen Regisseurinnen nicht der Generalverdacht, dass sie es nur aufgrund der Frauenquote ins Rampenlicht geschafft haben? Ist bei so einer Vorgabe sogar...
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A visual compilation of all 88 trading cards for Star Trek fans and collectors of TV memorabilia! Since Star Trek first aired on television in 1966, the series has had an incredible influence on pop culture. In 1976, with the show's rising popularity in syndication, the Topps Company released a series of collectible trading cards featuring full-color images from the classic television series created by Gene Roddenberry, as well as synopses and stats...
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Get the Summary of Dave Itzkoff's Robin in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Robin" by Dave Itzkoff is a comprehensive biography of Robin Williams, tracing his life from a lonely childhood in Michigan to his rise as a comedic genius and his tragic death. Williams grew up in a wealthy family, with a practical father and a whimsical mother, both of whom influenced his complex character. Despite frequent relocations...
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Get the Summary of Keenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Kenan Thompson's memoir, "When I Was Your Age," chronicles his journey from a child growing up in Georgia to a celebrated comedian on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL). Thompson shares anecdotes from his unconventional childhood, his early admiration for Nickelodeon, and his breakthrough in show business with "All That." He recounts...
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Los montes son tuyos reúne dos piezas del director de escena, dramaturgo y performer Alberto Cortés: El Ardor (2021) y One night at the golden bar (2022).
En palabras de Rodrigo García Marina, autor del epílogo: «En el teatro de Alberto Cortés no aparecen animales drogados o muertos, nadie se hiere gratuitamente, los efectos especiales de la sangre y los fluidos son innecesarios. No está pensado para un presupuesto millonario, ni participan...
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This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina Daly Thompson shows how viewers interpret these media and how they impact everyday life, language use, and thinking about community. She offers a unique understanding of how media reflect...
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