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Publisher
Great Musical Treasures
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1920s, including Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer, Eddie Cantor, The Marx Brothers, Rudy Vallee, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Florenz Ziegfeld, The Desert Song, Rio Rita, Broadway Melody, and more.
Publisher
Great Musical Treasures
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1940s, when more than 550 movie musicals were produced. Highlighted stars include Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Betty Hutton, June Haver, the Andrews Sisters, the Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Lena Horne.
43) A rebours
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents this transgressive short film compilation. Conceived by the underground film society Cinema Abattoir, the A Rebours short film anthology convey the spectator side of experimental and avant-garde cinema.
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Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines how slavery and the civil rights movement helped lead to the birth of hip-hop and how the genre extends far beyond the music.
45) Concrete poetry
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1996.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses the music and lyrics of thirteen African-American songs as a focal point for relating the history of the African-American experience and for telling American musical history.
48) Punk: attitude
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary about punk music and culture, where they came from, how they exist today. Directed by Don Letts who was a member of Big Audio Dynamite. Features music from the New York Dolls, MC5, the Dictators, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Black Flag, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, James White and the Blacks, Blondie, and more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father at the age of five, Bobby saw the radio as his way out--a dream that came true in college when he went on air at the Henderson State University campus station broadcasting as Bobby Bones, while simultaneously starting The Bobby Bones Show at 105.9 KLAZ. Bobby's passions were pop, country music, and comedy, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the 80s and the 90s, its slow decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre"--
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the history of the spaghetti Western, the genre of cinema classics of the 1960s created by Italian filmmakers who carried on the tradition of the Wild West horse opera in hundreds of productions over subsequent decades, including A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.
53) Punk
Author
Series
Publisher
Collector's Guide Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
159 p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
54) Bodas de sangre
Author
Series
Letras hispanicas volume 231
Publisher
Catedra
Pub. Date
c1990.
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
Español
Description
An annotated and criticial version of the play.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The History of Sketch Comedy will appeal to all kinds of comedy fans as well as fans of Keegan-Michael Key. With epic personal tangents and hilarious asides, their story takes you on an illuminating look at all facets of comedy from the stock characters of commedia del arte in the 16th century, to the rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the golden age of television comedy, the influence of the most well-known comedy schools, and ascension of comedy...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From her creation of the first 'Approval Matrix' in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including several substantive, never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television beginning with Buffy--as she writes, a show that was so much more than its critical assessment--the evolution of female...
Author
Publisher
Collins Crime Club
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
724 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world's most popular form of fiction.
"The Life of Crime is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of crime fiction, old and new, from around the world. In what will surely be regarded...
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