Summary: The deluxe two-disc DVD set includes a new 2K restoration of Ghost Town (1935) an astonishing and haunting amateur documentary about post-cinema Fort Lee. Disc One also features five films made at Champion Studios, recovered thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress and the Fort Lee Film Commission. Disc Two includes exciting NJ film rediscoveries, a slapstick comedy from director Mack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHAMattern, Joanne
Summary: Describes the early lives of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, explains how they built their business, and discusses their later life and the causes they support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 MATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MATDray, Philip
Summary: "A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 DRAGross, Edward (Edward A.)
Summary: "There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films. In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action, bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross take you behind the scenes of a franchise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GROSummary: A biography of the Hollywood power broker who spent over 60 years at MCA and Universal Studios. Includes interviews with Jimmy Carter, Robert Evans, Larry King, and Michael Ovitz among others..
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Video 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASHarris, Duchess
Summary: Motown music emerged in the United States in the 1960s. It launched the careers of many African American musicians. Motown music shaped culture and society during the American civil rights movement. The Making of Motown explores the history and legacy of Motown. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J338.761 HARSummary: In his unique fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark is expanded 35 years later by its unconventional follow-up, Take 2 1/2. The sequel sees the actors reunited in a more personal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SYMSummary: Narrated by Tony-and Academy Award-winner Joel Grey, this entertaining documentary mingles cultural history with illuminating perspectives on the origins and meanings of some of Broadway's most beloved songs, stories, and shows. With performances by Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Barbra Streisand, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and many more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BROBasinger, Jeanine
Summary: "The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4309 BASSalisbury, Katie Gee
Summary: "Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, Iranian style! A personal journey through the history of Iranian popular cinema before the revolution and the world of "filmfarsi", a term referring to the rowdy and melodramatic genre films made from the early 1950s to 1979. This documentary uncovers a cinema of titillation, action and big emotions, which presented a troubling mirror for the country, as Iran...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.72 BAISummary: Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Inspired by a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2009Wong, Phyllis Michael
Summary: "Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESSummary: The documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou moves from the 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PROSummary: "Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack--the Warner brothers--turned a storefront that used a sheet for a screen into a dream factory rooted in the credo of educate, entertain and enlighten. In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker (and Harry's granddaughter) Cass Warner Sperling tells a story of sibling rivalry, social conscience, and the silver screen."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROSalazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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Summary: Young line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Contents: Hitler's obsession with film -- Enter Hollywood -- "Good" -- "Bad" -- "Switched off" -- Switched on -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 URWKurutz, Steven
Summary: "The little-engine-that-could story of how a band of scrappy entrepreneurs are reviving the enterprise of manufacturing clothing in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023