Summary: Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. In An Editor's Burial, celebrated director Wes Anderson gathers together the wonderful writing on the expatriate experience in Paris that inspired his latest film The French Dispatch, about an American who sets up a magazine in Paris....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EDICamus, Albert
Summary: Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of his Notebooks began as simple instruments of his work; this final volume, recorded over the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 848.91403 CAMSummary: Characterized by expressions of individuality, popularismo, criticism, stoicism, humor, piety, and dignity, the literature of Spain spans ten centuries, includes some of history's most significant writers, and contains landmark works of every major literary genre. This program provides an overview of Iberian history as it relates to Spanish literature. The formation of regional tongues and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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French Kicks
Contents: One more time -- Don't thank me -- The trial of the century -- Oh fine -- The falls -- Was it a crime -- Following waves -- You could not decide -- Yes, I guess -- Only so long -- Better time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Startime International 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FrencJudt, Tony
Summary: Offers a narrative of the United States' intellectual history of the past one hundred years by discussing the ideas and thinkers that helped shape the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.092 JUDSummary: Russia had its intelligentsia, the U.S. its cultural elite (a pejorative term), but "intellectuals" emerged in France with the Dreyfus affair. When 30,000 people reverently accompanied Jean-Paul Sartre's funeral cortege in 1980, the event marked the demise of the breed of intellectuals. This documentary series by Bernard-Henri Levy retraces the concepts and ideals that motivated France's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEAJentleson, Bruce W.
Summary: "Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 JENMauceri, John
Summary: "This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 MAUSummary: Despite the political and economic chaos of the 19th century-or perhaps because of it-this period produced brilliant literature while setting the stage for the Generation of '98. In this program, respected authorities elaborate on the lives and works of the masters of Romanticism and Realism. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Jose Espronceda's Cancion del Pirata, Jose Zorrilla's Romances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Brill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: Presents the social, political, economical and technological changes in the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century, including labor unions, the invention of the airplane and popularization of the automobile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.911 BRIGaneri, Anita
Summary: Introduces French, discussing who speaks it and where, describing the similarities and differences between it and English, and offering some basic vocabulary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH 448.2 GANLindop, Edmund.
Summary: Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the fifth decade of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.0441 FRESummary: Unified by the Portuguese language, the literature of Brazil represents the cultural synthesis of three distinct influences: indigenous peoples, European emigres, and Africans brought to the New World as slaves. This program reflects on those influences as it examines the first five centuries of recorded Brazilian writing. With an overview of ancient folklore and verse, the program highlights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Brill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: Explores the political, social, cultural and economic developments that shaped America during the 1980s and highlights the people, inventions, innovations and landmark events that defined the decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.927 BRILindop, Edmund.
Summary: Looks at life in the United States in the 1930s, discussing notable people, events and developments in politics, society, the economy, culture and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Unified by the Portuguese language, the literature of Brazil represents the cultural synthesis of three distinct influences: indigenous peoples, European emigres, and Africans brought to the New World as slaves. This program reflects on those influences as it examines the first five centuries of recorded Brazilian writing. With an overview of ancient folklore and verse, the program highlights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Stevens, Dana
Summary: "As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022