Orwell, George
Summary: En un mundo donde la guerra es la paz, la libertad es la esclavitud y la ignorancia es la fuerza, el Hermano Mayor tiene ojos por todas partes. Las vidas de los ciudadanos están vigiladas y cada decisión se analiza al milímetro. Winston Smith, encargado de reescribir la historia para el gobierno, no puede escapar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ORWSummary: A comedy/romance about a surreal world in which terrorists scare the citizens, and where nothing can be accomplished without paperwork. All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer and new bonus features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FANTASY BRASummary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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Summary: The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 SNYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 321.9 SNYSummary: A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a totalitarian future, citizens who are labeled as deviants are sentenced to brutal behavior modification camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMIshikawa, Masaji
Summary: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ISHIKAWA, MASAJI ISHHayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August)
Summary: An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2007