Bowman, Martin W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.544 BOWSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Contents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPISummary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALASummary: This episode interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It explores why Darwin's "dangerous idea" might matter even more today than it did in his own time, and reveals how science might be used to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DARSummary: The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ThreeBordman, Gerald Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 792 BORBordman, Gerald Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.14 BORMarlin, Robert W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Land Yacht Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 MARSummary: Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Broadcasting Service 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Our Town 2003Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OURMartin, Bogan & the Armstrongs
Contents: Yes pappy yes (3:08) -- In the bottom (4:15) -- Marie (4:01) -- Ice cream freezer blues (3:56) -- That old gang of mine (4:05) -- Jamaica farewell (2:36) -- I'd do most anything for you (2:13) -- Nagging woman blues (4:37) -- Sheik of Araby (2:45) -- Streets of old Chicago (3:56) -- Let's give a party (3:32) -- Chinatown (3:36) -- Do you call that a buddy (4:42) -- They cut down the old pine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MARHunt, Marvin W.
Summary: Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. This book investigates the many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 HUNMeyer, Marvin W.
Summary: In 1945 an Egyptian peasant discovered a jar filled with ancient manuscripts. Painstakingly restored and translated, these fragments came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library. Included are gospels of Jesus's life that never made it into the modern Christian Bible as well as a treasury of lost, esoteric wisdom that portrays a side of Christianity suppressed by the institutionalized church....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.932 MEYMeyer, Marvin W.
Contents: Albert Schweitzer and the image of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas -- The beginning of the Gospel of Thomas -- Seeing or coming to the child of the living one? : more on Gospel of Thomas saying 37 -- Be passersby : Gospel of Thomas saying 42 and Islamic literature -- Making Mary male : the categories "male" and "female" in the Gospel of Thomas -- Gospel of Thomas saying 114 revisited -- The youth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Press International 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 229.8 MEYSummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTBiale, David
Summary: This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 BIAFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Summary: Travel with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from John O'Groats to Cape Town descending through Western Europe and Africa before arriving at the southern most tip of the continent. On their journey their endurance, biking skills and friendship are tested to the limit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LONPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PhilbPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for hislife, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011