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African American families History African Americans Genealogy African Americans History Blues (Music) DNA fingerprinting Mulder, Fox (Fictitious character) Drama Parapsychology Drama Scully, Dana (Fictitious character) Drama United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Drama WesternSummary: 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
Peart-Smith, Paul
Summary: "There is a growing urgency, in classrooms as well as in publishing at large, to encompass the African American experience, African American thought and culture. Much of the recent headway has been made in the superhero framework, including Black Panther, but not only there. The tremendous success-in sales and prizes-of March, the trilogy based upon the life of Congressman John Lewis, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 PEASummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUContents: 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 MITSummary: Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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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 XJohnstone, Willliam W
Summary: Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke Jensen is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But no bars of iron or bonds of rope can withstand a vengeful Mountain Man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishign Corp 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: In Utopia, Stan and Oliver travel to London so that Stan can claim an inheritance; "Mud & sand" is a slapstick parody of a Rudolph Valentino film of the same name; "Stan Laurel home movies" is a collection of footage shot during a tour; In The hobo, Oliver tries to keep his sweetheart; "West of Hot Dog" is a western parody; In Oranges and lemons, Stan works in an orange grove; In Should sailors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UTOSummary: Tarantula: an experiment to create a growth formula that could end starvation. Mole people: three scientists stumble upon a tyrannical tribe of albinos who have enslaved a mutant race of mole people. Incredible shrinking man: an ordinary business man is exposed to a radioactive mist and finds his size diminishing .Monolith Monsters: a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publ 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHJohnstone, Willliam W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: From the very start, blues guitarists forged an irresistible partnership with the slide, the sound of which epitomizes the very essence of the genre. This Rough Guide highlights the revolutionary players who pioneered this most captivating of styles during the early recorded heyday of the blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When gold is discovered in the little town of No-Name, Colorado, its initially joyful citizens are besieged by an onslaught of fortune-hunting gunslingers, and Smoke Jensen recruits a handful of legends to help protect the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books 1987
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHJohnstone, Willliam W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGJohnstone, Willliam W
Summary: Searching through the Oklahoma Panhandle for the killers who ambushed a small wagon train, notorious gunslinger Falcon MacCallister discovers that a new railway is at the root of all the bloodshed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHJohnstone, Willliam W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publ 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHJohnstone, Willliam W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KENNSINGTON PUB. 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHContents: Two of us (John Grant) -- Dig a pony (Dennis Locorriere) -- I me mine/Dig it (Beth Orton) -- Let it be (the Amorphous Androgynous) -- Maggie May (C.W. Stoneking) -- I've got a feeling (the Besnard Lakes) -- One after 909 (James Apollo) -- The long and winding road (Judy Collins) -- For you blue (Pete Molinari) -- Get back (the Jim Jones Revue) -- Bonus track : One after 909 (Wilko Johnson).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOJohnstone, Willliam W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHJohnstone, Willliam W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publ 2002