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2024.
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viii, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of...
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"This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through. The...
Pub. Date
2005.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation within reach for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a shimmering glass dome, Ofili plunged visitors into disorienting spaces of dense colour and enveloping light. Shot in London, Germany and Venice, this film relates the creation of within reach. Chris Ofili's reflections on the process are complemented...
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[2018]
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xx, 330 pages ; 24 cm
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This oral biography presents Conroy the man, as if speaking in person, in the colloquial voice familiar to family and friends. This voice is quite different from the authorial style found in his books, which are famous for their lyricism and poetic descriptions. Here Conroy is blunt, plainspoken, and uncommonly candid. While his novels are known for their tragic elements, this volume is suffused with Conroy's sense of humor, which he credits with...
26) The Aggressives
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2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A favorite of the film festival circuit, The Aggressives is an insightful look at the little explored, yet highly dramatic subculture of lesbian women who identify as men. This fascinating documentary features intimate and revealing interviews with six aggressive women. The Aggressives range in masculinity but do not aspire to be men. Nor are they "drag kings." They have found an unexplored loophole in society's gender tapestry and this film seeks...
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 73 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
28) Meet the singer!
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Madison and Billy interview mega singing sensation Poppy Starr"--
29) Kissinger
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on exclusive interviews with Henry Kissinger himself, this documentary provides unique insight into one of the 20th century's most powerful figures and his impact.
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Imagine the Sound brings together interviews and performances with the prime innovators of the once controversial free jazz movement of the 60s. The first feature documentary by Ron Mann (Grass, Comicbook Confidential) is an eloquent tribute to a group of highly celebrated artists that helped forge the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. Critic and film historian Jonathan Rosenbaum has said Imagine the Sound “may be the best documentary on free jazz...
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Ã2003
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1 videodisc (220 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gates travels to the east coast, the deep South, inner city Chicago, and Hollywood to investigate modern black America and interview influential Americans including Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou, Willie Herenton and others.
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"A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who...
33) Allies
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 95 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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Allies is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity in the Labor Party; and the determination of Sir Robert Menzies to follow the US into Vietnam. It’s the story also of the “covert wars” in South-East...
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Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, few know him beyond his contentious confirmation battle. But beyond the headlines, Thomas' life is a classic American tale; born poor in the segregated South, only to become one of the most influential justices in the highest court in the land. In the follow-up to the wildly successful documentary by the same name, Created Equal builds on dozens of hours of groundbreaking, one-on-one interviews...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 49 min. 32 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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"[A] passionate and astonishing speech, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail... This was a man delivering an attack on American foreign policy, and Britain's subscription to it, with a controlled anger and a deadly irony. And, paradoxically, it reminded us why Pinter is such a formidable dramatist. He used every weapon in his theatrical technique to reinforce his message. And, by the end, it was as if Pinter himself had been physically recharged...
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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One of the country's preminent and prolific serious writers, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 100 novels, including Them, We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. In this candid and revealing documentary, she provides insight into her life, creative process, and the events that have shaped her writings, including the 1967 Detroit Riot, the Chappaquiddick incident, and the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe. Featuring readings by Oscar winner Laura...
39) All eyes
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A recently fired podcast host comes across a story that he feels could revitalize his career. The story: a recently widowed farmer claims there is a monster living in the woods behind his farm. The plan: trap and kill the beast.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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xvi, 474 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The definitive oral history of the hit television franchise The Real Housewives, from its unlikely start in the gated communities of Orange County to the pop culture behemoth it has become-spanning eight cities, hundreds of cast members, and millions of fans"--
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