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Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts Conversations with comic artists Criterion collection ; 495 Drugs, uses & abuses Gerontology (New York, N.Y.) Glories of Spanish literature Golden age of American rock 'n' roll Great courses Great courses (DVD) Sex, censorship, and the silver screenDetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AmeSummary: In this program, Joan M. Erikson describes her search for a better living situation for her frail husband, Erik H. Erikson, and then presents a poignant recounting of his subsequent death. She uses these experiences to suggest strategies to meet the physical and emotional needs of the fragile elderly and to support those who work with them. With a personal understanding of the challenges of old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1995
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Summary: Presents a collection of mid-twentieth century essays on a wide range of subjects, written by some of America's best writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 GOLArt Institute of Chicago
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Institute 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 748.84 CASSummary: “Wisdom and integrity are something that other people may see in an old person, but it’s not what that old person is feeling.” In this program, Joan M. Erikson offers a frank and personal reexamination of the last stage of the life cycle—a stage she believes that she and her husband, Erik H. Erikson, tended to romanticize when they formulated their eight-stage life cycle theory decades earlier....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1995
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSummary: "Comics have a pipeline to something very basic about the way people think." When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic book was capable of exploring complex aesthetic, moral, and cultural themes. Maus's creator Art Spiegelman (b. 1948)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.597 SPIQueens of the Stone Age
Contents: Regular John -- Avon -- If only -- Walkin on the sidewalks -- You would know -- The bronze -- How to handle a rope (a lesson in the lariat) -- Mexicola -- Hispanic impressions -- You can't quit me baby -- These aren't the droids you're looking for -- Give the mule what he wants -- Spiders and vinegaroons -- I was a teenage hand model.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings/Rekords Rekords 2010
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK QUERobot Ate Me
Contents: Our bones were chalk -- Tied to the car -- They ate themselves -- Sugar & my rotted teeth -- You smile -- A harp (and how you cut my strings) -- After the war -- Kept our hands warm -- What it felt like to fall -- Everyone was still -- We ate each other -- In the fire -- What we thought was fog -- Goodnight: I almost died -- They killed you -- So we stopped -- You died...an afterthought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swims Slowly Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROBGolden, Daniel
Summary: Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 327 GOLDetroit Institute of Arts
Summary: Full of colorful photos to satisfy any art enthusiast
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 ONEEakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONDetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.09 AFRSummary: During the 17th century, Spain witnessed a flowering of letters that was nourished by religious zeal, epic adventures, and a new sense of realism. In this program, leading scholars provide insights into the writings and personalities of Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and other giants of Spanish literature. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Cervantes' Don Quijote and Los Trabajos de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLManson, Marilyn.
Contents: Thaeter -- This is the new s**t -- mOBSCENE -- Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag -- Use your fist and not your mouth -- The golden age of grotesque -- (s)AINT -- Ka-boom Ka-boom -- Slutgarden -- [Spade] -- Para-noir -- The bright young things -- Better of two evils -- Vodevil -- Obsequey (The death of art).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nothing/Interscope 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MANSummary: The story of film: an odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STOSummary: This video examines THC and the cannabinoids marijuana, hashish, and hash oil. Expert commentary is presented by former NFL player Charles Hunt, a pharmacist, a police officer, addiction counselors, a historian, a pastor, recovering addicts, and others. Together, they explain the history and biological effects of THC, investigating its use, abuse, and hazards, and its reputation as a gateway drug.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In what many see as Hollywood's Golden Age, the offices of William Hays and Joseph Breen worked overtime to combat sexuality and subversion in American movies. This program examines the products of that era-films that danced around the standards of the Production Code and paved the way for increasingly daring storytelling and images. From the modesty of It Happened One Night to the shocking and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Mott the Hoople (Musical group)
Contents: Side 1 All the young dudes -- Jerkin' crocus -- One of the boys -- Sweet Jane -- Sea diver
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony 2019
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK MOTSONS OF THE PIONEERS
Contents: When pay day rolls around -- Sagebrush symphony -- Song of the bandit -- Ne-ha-nee -- The howlin' pup -- Rocky Mountain Express -- One more ride -- So long to the Red River Valley -- Coyote serenade -- South in my soul -- Cool water -- Rainbow over the range -- Happy cowboy -- The Texas crapshooter -- At the old barn dance -- Move along you lazy cattle -- Swingin' the bow -- Whoopee ti yi yo --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soundies/Bloodshot 1988