Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASSummary: The development of a child from conception to birth, using both microimagery and the story of a young couple preparing for their first child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIFSummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MusicSummary: A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATSummary: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson returns, bringing together a rare mix of potentially clashing personalities - celebrities, comedians and the worlds leading scientific experts - to explore a variety of cosmic and science topics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: In the 1970s, disco dominated American pop music. Originating in nightclubs that featured record players instead of live bands, disco was a major stylistic departure from rock, and its rise to the top of the music charts signaled a cultural shift that some found threatening. Disco's roots lay in a gay urban subculture, and the artists who created it were largely African American and Latino. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: Science, pop culture and comedy collide in National Geographic's groundbreaking new series, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasseTyson. Along with celebrity guests and comic co-hosts, Neil explores captivating topics such as space travel, extra-terrestrial life, the Big Bang, the future of our Earth and the environment, and breaking news from the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American idol-style series, Afghan star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFGSummary: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists, comedians, and more to explore a variety of cosmic topics, colliding pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life and the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: Returning for what would be the final season (1979-80) for many of the original cast and writers of SNL, the complete fifth season includes an array of comedic hosts, including Steve Martin, Eric Idle, Buck Henry, Rodney Dangerfield, Martin Sheen, Bea Arthur, Ted Knight, and more. It also features classic performances by Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Randy Newman,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SATSummary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLSummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: Follow a 10-year-old urban revolutionary, Huey, and his hip-hop obsessed little brother, Riley, as they move to the suburbs with their unwise old granddad, Robert Freeman. In this quiet neighborhood, the laughs, pop culture and pretensions, from Martin Luther King to Chicken flu, from Santa Claus to bullying, no taboo is left untouched. Includes a compilation CD "The Boondocks: Music from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nonstop laughs are in the house with season four of In living color on DVD! No celebrity was too sacred and no current event was too controversial for this Emmy-winning hit show that pushed the boundaries of sketch comedy with hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSummary: Another season's worth of award-winning frenetic fried fowl from deep in the heart of Adult Swim's late-night animation plantation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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Summary: Spanning eighteen years, traces the career of a pop star, from her rise to stardom as a teenager to her personal and familial struggles in later years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VOXSummary: Boy George was in the cloak room, admittedly stealing money from club goers' belongings. Bowie, synth beats and a new freedom of sexual identity were in the air. The Blitz Club spell was cast and a hotbed of talent emerged: Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox, Culture Club, Sade and practically everyone else you've ever heard from the era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLISummary: Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this much anticipated and highly celebrated fiesta by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the "underworld" of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, ¡Día de los Muertos! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIASummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023