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1) The river
Series
Criterion collection volume 276
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
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"Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and dangers of majority rule?which he thought could be as tyrannical as the rule of a monarchy. He analyzes the influence of political parties and the press on the government and the effect of equality on the social, political, and economic life...
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"At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon?s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes--conflict...
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In this hard-hitting novel, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While Adela never actually claims...
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Charles Dickens was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serial form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and...
7) Red Beard
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002, c1965
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
8) Stray dog
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004, c1949
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminal's lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side.
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Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
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1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
11) Boat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 1113
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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After the communist takeover of Vietnam, a Japanese journalist revisits Vietnam to report on the life of its people after the war.
12) Gangs
Publisher
Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
288 pages
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"With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from...
14) Mamma Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 p. : ill.)
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A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
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"1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman--and journeying...
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it...
19) Rage becomes her
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 23 cm
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"A new, conversation-shifting book that encourages women to own their anger and use it as a tool for positive change, written by one of today's most influential feminist thinkers"--
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Publisher
IG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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230 pages ; 21 cm
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Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. However, the reality is far different for those who live there--a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule, and where love and revenge often go hand in hand. Written in a combination of English and Trinidad Creole, Pleasantview reveals the dark side of the Caribbean dream. In this...
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