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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zombies have become the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest human survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise building that is barricaded within a safe zone. The wealthy ignore the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Riley and Cholo are mercenaries-for-hire; Kaufman is their nefarious...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 259 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
The story of a girl who becomes obsessed with picking through the enormous Deonar garbage mountains in Mumbai in an effort to exploit urban overconsumption to find treasure that could lift her family's fortunes.
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger...
Publisher
TurningTime LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"DOGTOWN REDEMPTION is the intimate story of recyclers in West Oaklanda journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addiction, prejudice and poverty. A surprising number of Americans make their living off America's vast rivers of trash. They are America's unseen. Dismissed as scavengers and pests, these "pirates of trash" come to life in DOGTOWN REDEMPTION, the story of an underclass of shopping cart recyclers, poor entrepreneurs who...
5) Trashlands
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
Sang Ly struggles to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journey to save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82, 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Varda's most recent effort-- the first filmed with a digital videocamera-- focuses on gleaners, those who gather the spoils left after a harvest, as well as those who mine the trash. Some completely exist on the leavings; others turn them into art, exercise their ethics, or simply have fun. The director likens gleaning to her own profession-that of collecting images, stories, fragments of sound, light, and color."--Www.imdb.com.
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Flushed away: Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an...
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