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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Twain Legacy offers students and teachers an insight into the life and writings of Mark Twain, a significant 19th century American literary icon. ‘The Twain Legacy’ is divided into five chapters intended for class and individual learning and discussion. Knowledgeable scholars explore themes, ideas and narrative style in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By examining and exploring why his historical and moral concerns were important, the...
Publisher
Moving Train Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Transgender-dyke. Reluctant-Polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering-Scientologist. Pioneering Gender Outlaw. - Meet Auntie Kate. Trailblazing performance artist-theorist-activist, Kate Bornstein, takes us on a mind-bending quest through her world dismantling gender and seeking answers to the age-old question: What makes life worth living? Kate Bornstein is... captures rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations bearing witness to...
3) Beat hotel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 82 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 31 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Both heartfelt and entertaining, My Depression uniquely illuminates the symptoms, emotions and side effects of depression using animation, comedy and music.The film helps to make a difficult and sometimes taboo topic more understandable, both for those who may be suffering from depression as well as family and friends of people with the disorder.My Depression takes viewers through an individual's journey from the early symptoms through the darkest...
5) American Oz
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
When L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, he was 44 years old and had spent much of his life in restless pursuit of his American dream. He continued to reinvent himself, reflecting a uniquely American brand of confidence, imagination and innovation. AMERICAN OZ tells the remarkable story of the man behind one of the most enduring and classic American tales.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A three-part, six-hour documentary film that examines visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography, a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity, with carefully selected excerpts from his luminous short stories, novels, and non-fiction, viewers will see beyond the faȧde of the public man, becoming...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Wes Wilson's self-help book about honesty has saved millions of relationships. But when his fiancé is abducted and declared dead, Wes suddenly finds himself a man hunted by hired killers, beautiful spies, and a ruthless criminal mastermind with a taste for both violence and style. Now Wes needs to discover what he has that an international smuggling ring wants. He discovers a secret room full of weapons and is having trouble trusting...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Wes Wilson's self-help book about honesty has saved millions of relationships. But when his fiancé is abducted and declared dead, Wes suddenly finds himself a man hunted by hired killers, beautiful spies, and a ruthless criminal mastermind with a taste for both violence and style. Now Wes needs to discover what he has that an international smuggling ring wants. He discovers a secret room full of weapons and is having trouble trusting...
10) Mark Twain
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 220 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences, double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
11) Capote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 84 minutes) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location at many places actually frequented by the real persons portrayed and featuring a script written from primary sources, this documentary tells the life story of American author Louisa May Alcott, chronicling her efforts to rescue her family from poverty and find wealth, fame, and happiness for herself. Includes animations and commentary from Alcott scholars, novelist Geraldine Brooks, and the "literary sleuths" who uncovered Alcott's...
14) John Steinbeck
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (30 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and literary career of John Steinbeck, using photographs and views of places associated with his life. The subjects of Steinbeck's writing and fascination included the sea, traveling and common people. Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Novel Prize for literature in 1962. His works include Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, Cannery Row and more.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
2005, c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of American novelist Truman Capote, who made his name by writing classics such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood."
16) Adam
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.
17) A perfect day
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For writer Robert Harlan, life is a dream come true. His first novel has just hit the best-seller lists and he is suddenly thrust into the limelight. But as success consumes him, Robert's family life crumbles. It takes the sobering prophecy of a mysterious stranger for Robert to realize what is most important. Now he must find his way back to the wife and daughter he left behind.
18) Martian child
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and literary career of Ernest Hemingway, using photographs and views of places associated with his life. Enigmatic and intriguing, Hemingway is one of America's favorite authors. His dramatic understatement, dialogue and use of heroes made for great human interest. His works include The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and many more.
20) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
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