Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
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
Summary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AIRUnited Methodist Church of Manton (Manton, Mich.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Church 1900
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377467 UnitedSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Relativity 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BiContents: Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MITVarious Artists
Contents: Are you gonna be my girl / Jet -- Harder to breath / Maroon 5 -- You and I both / Jason Mraz -- Milkshake / Kelis -- I'm still in love with you / Sean Paul (feat. Sasha) -- Salt Shaker / Ying Yang Twins (feat. Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz) -- Tipsy / J-Kwon -- Rubber band man / T.I. -- You don't know my name / Alicia Keys -- The voice within / Christina Aguilera -- Sorry 2004 / Ruben Studdard...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG & Warner Music Group 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TOTSummary: An American Air Force major on leave in Japan during the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese dancer. When they declare their love openly, they find themselves scorned equally by both the Japanese and Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAYSummary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCRSummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISMikel
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light IN The Attic 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ZELSummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINContents: Rock is dead (Marilyn Manson) (3:10) -- Spybreak! (short one) (Propellerheads) (4:01) -- Bad blood (Ministry) (4:59) -- Clubbed to death (Kurayamino mix) (Rob D) (7:26) -- Prime audio soup (Meat Beat Manifesto) (6:17) -- Leave you far behind (Lunatic Calm) (3:12) -- Mindfields (Prodigy) (5:41) -- Dragula (Hot Rod Herman remix) (Rob Zombie) (4:37) -- My own summer (shove it) (Deftones) (3:35) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MATMika
Summary: Singer-songwriter Mika is back with his fifth studio album. It includes the singles Tiny Love, which was featured on Billboard.com, and Ice Cream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIKContents: Indhold: Music Box: Songs Of Sunshine(4:16 min) -- Hennessy, Christie: High In The Trees(2:44 min) -- Raven, Michael: Death And The Lady(4:29 min) -- Penny Wager: Marcie(4:05 min) -- Folkal Point: Sweet Sir Galahad(3:37 min) -- Donald, Mike: Visions Of Cumbria(2:48 min) -- Blue Horizon: Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye(3:36 min) -- Cunningham, Porter: Photographs(2:27 min) -- Peregrine: Lazy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BEFDo Make Say Think (Musical group)
Contents: Classic noodlanding. -- End of music. -- White light of Chinatown. -- Reitschule. -- Soul and onward. -- Anything for now.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Constellation 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DOSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHEKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KERSummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNIStaples, Vince
Contents: Ramona Park legend, pt. 1 -- Lift me up -- Norf norf -- Birds & bees (featuring Daley) -- Loca -- Lemme know (Jhené Aiko and DJ Dahi) -- Dopeman (featuring Joey Fatts and Kilo Kish) -- Jump off the roof (featuring Snoh Aalegra) -- Señorita -- Summertime -- Ramona Park legend, pt. 2 -- 3230 -- Surf (featuring Kilo Kish) -- Might be wrong (featuring Haneef Talib, aka GeNNo and eeeeeeee) -- Get...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2015