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Wild minds : the artists and rivalries that inspired the golden age of animation / by Mitenbuler, Reid,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1911, the famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted an animated version of his popular newspaper strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Loosely inspired by Sigmund Freud's research on dreams, the film was one of the very first of its kind. McCay is largely forgotten today, but his work helped unleash the creative energy of animators like Otto Messmer, Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, and Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations-from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia-which became an integral part of American culture over the next five decades. Before television, animated cartoons were often "little hand grenades of social and political satire" aimed squarely at adults. Early Betty Boop cartoons included nudity. Popeye stories slyly criticized the injustices of unchecked capitalism. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were used to explore hidden depths of the American psyche. "During its first half-century," Mitenbuler writes, "animation was an important part of the culture wars about free speech, censorship, the appropriate boundaries of humor, and the influence of art and media on society." During WWII it also played a significant role in propaganda. The golden age of animation ended with the advent of television when cartoons were sanitized to appeal to a growing demographic of children and help advertisers sell sugary breakfast cereals. Alongside these stories, Mitenbuler incorporates the surprising contributions of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), voice artist Mel Blanc, composer Leopold Stokowski, and many others whose talents influenced the world of animation. Illustrated throughout in both black-and-white and color, with rare drawings and photographs, Wild Minds is an ode to our lively past and to the creative energy that would inspire The Simpsons, South Park, and BoJack Horseman today"--
Subjects: Animated films; Animated television programs; Animated films; Animated television programs;
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Subject [videorecording] / by Agee, Arthur,on-screen participant.; Angulo, Mukunda,on-screen participant.; Friedman, Jesse,on-screen participant.; Hall, Camilla,film director.; Ratliff, Margie,on-screen participant.; Tiexiera, Jennifer,film director.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Margie Ratliff, Arthur Agee, Jesse Friedman, Mukunda Angulo, Ahmed Hassan.In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? Subject reveals the unintended consequences good, bad, and complicated of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries, The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of An Inconvenient Truth, Cameraperson, MLK/FBI, and more.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Hoop dreams (Motion picture); Staircase (Motion picture); Wolfpack (Motion picture); Capturing the Friedmans (Motion picture); Cinéma vérité.; Motion pictures; Documentary films;
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The message / by Coates, Ta-Nehisi,author.;
"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories - our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking - expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist - and named for Nubian pharaoh - Coates had never set foot on the African continent until now. He roams the "steampunk" city of "old traditions and new machinery," meeting with strangers and dining with local writers who quiz him in French about African American politics. But everywhere he goes he feels as if he's in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and a mythic kingdom in his mind, the pan-African homeland he was raised to believe was the origin and destiny for all black people. Finally he travels to the slave castles off the coast and touches the ocean that carried his ancestors away in chains - and has his own reckoning with the legacy of the Afrocentric dream. Back in the USA he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he explores a different mythology, this one enforced on its subjects by the state. He enters the world of the teacher whose job is threatened for teaching one of Coates's own books and discovers a community of mostly white supporters who were transformed and even radicalized by the stories they discovered in the "racial reckoning" of 2020. But he also explores the backlash to this reckoning and the deeper myths and stories of the community - a capital of the confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over the its public squares. In Palestine, the longest of the essays, he discovers the devastating gap between the narratives we've accepted and the clashing reality of life on the ground. He meets with activists and dissidents, Israelis and Palestinians - the old, who remember their dispossessions on two continents, and the young who have only known struggle and disillusionment. He travels into Jerusalem, the heart of Zionist mythology, and to the occupied territories, where he sees the reality the myth is meant to hide. It is this hidden story that draws him in and profoundly changes him - and makes the war that would soon come all the more devastating"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Coates, Ta-Nehisi; African American journalists; Journalists;
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The Trial of Katterfelto : A Novel. by Redhill, Michael.;
'The Trial of Katterfelto' is a novel about magic and technology set in the 18th century, where a magician makes a name for himself with all sorts of trickery with his associate - until they find a mysterious box that speaks about a horrific future. Redhill lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Bellevue Square' (a RADD pick), which won the Scotiabank Giller prize.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Literary;
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Rambo. [videorecording] / by Jaenada, Óscar,1975-actor.; Mandylor, Louis,actor.; Monreal, Yvette,actor.; Shah, Sheila,actor.; Stallone, Sylvester,actor,screenwriter.; Grunberg, Adrian,film director.; Vega, Paz,1976-actor.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Yvette Monreal, Oscar Jaenada, Louis Mandylor, Sheila Shah.In the fifth chapter in the saga of John Rambo, the grizzled former Green Beret and Vietnam veteran is living a quiet life on an Arizona horse ranch. But that won't last long, as Rambo must square off against the members of a vicious Mexican drug cartel who've abducted the granddaughter (Yvette Monreal) of an old friend (Adriana Barraza).Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:0 aspect ratio) ; Dolby TrueHD 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Rambo, John J. (Fictitious character); Cartels; Kidnapping victims; Rescues; Revenge; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Post-traumatic stress disorder;
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Rambo. [videorecording] / by Jaenada, Óscar,1975-actor.; Mandylor, Louis,actor.; Monreal, Yvette,actor.; Shah, Sheila,actor.; Stallone, Sylvester,actor,screenwriter.; Grunberg, Adrian,film director.; Vega, Paz,1976-actor.; Videoville Showtime,publisher.;
Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Yvette Monreal, Oscar Jaenada, Louis Mandylor, Sheila Shah.In the fifth chapter in the saga of John Rambo, the grizzled former Green Beret and Vietnam veteran is living a quiet life on an Arizona horse ranch. But that won't last long, as Rambo must square off against the members of a vicious Mexican drug cartel who've abducted the granddaughter (Yvette Monreal) of an old friend (Adriana Barraza).Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Rambo, John J. (Fictitious character); Cartels; Kidnapping victims; Rescues; Revenge; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Post-traumatic stress disorder;
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To wake the giant : a novel of Pearl Harbor / by Shaara, Jeff,1952-author.;
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan's ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, who wage their own war of conquest across Europe. Meanwhile, the British stand nearly alone against Hitler, and there is pressure in Washington to transfer America's powerful fleet of warships from Hawaii to the Atlantic to join the fight against German U-boats that are devastating shipping. But despite deep concerns about weakening the Pacific fleet, no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat. Told through the eyes of widely diverse characters, this story looks at all sides of the drama and puts the reader squarely in the middle. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull must balance his own concerns between President Roosevelt and the Japanese ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, who is little more than a puppet of his own government. In Japan, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto wins skeptical approval for his outrageous plans in the Pacific, yet he understands more than anyone that an attack on Pearl Harbor will start a war that Japan cannot win. In Hawaii, Commander Joseph Rochefort's job as an accomplished intelligence officer is to decode radio signals and detect the location of the Japanese fleet, but when the airwaves suddenly go silent, no one has any idea why. And from a small Depression-ravaged town, nineteen-year-old Tommy Biggs sees the Navy as his chance to escape and happily accepts his assignment, every sailor's dream: the battleship USS Arizona. With you-are-there immediacy, Shaara opens up the mysteries of just how Japan--a small, deeply militarist nation--could launch one of history's most devastating surprise attacks. In this story of innocence, heroism, sacrifice, and unfathomable blindness, Shaara's gift for storytelling uses these familiar wartime themes to shine a light on the personal, the painful, the tragic, and the thrilling--and on a crucial part of history we must never forget.
Subjects: War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; World War, 1939-1945;
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Mistress America [videorecording] / by Barrish, Seth,actor.; Baumbach, Noah,1969-film director,screenwriter.; Brett, Juliet,actor.; Chen, Kuangyi,1987-actor.; Chernus, Michael,actor.; Cheung, Cindy,1970-actor.; Gerwig, Greta,actor.; Phillips, Britta,1963-; Wareham, Dean,1963-; Fox Searchlight Pictures,presenter.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;
Camera, Sam Levy ; editor, Jennifer Lame ; music, Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips ; production designer, Sam Lisenco ; art director, Ashley Fenton.Seth Barrish, Juliet Brett, Andrea Chen, Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Kathryn Erbe, Joel Marsh Garland, Charlie Gillette.Tracy is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon to be stepsister, Brooke, a proud resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town, she is rescued from her disappointment and seduced by Brooke's alluringly mad schemes.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: College freshmen; College students; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Female friendship; Stepsisters; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Knitting modular shawls, wraps, and stoles / by Leapman, Melissa,author.;
Beginning with a simple triangular wedge, Leapman shows how multiple knit triangles can be joined together to create square, rectangular, trapezoidal, and semicircular shapes. Her easy and customizable technique offers knitters of all levels endless flexibility in design and yarn choices. Charted patterns for 185 different stitches allow readers to select their favourite embellishment for the main fabric of their shawl.
Subjects: Shawls.; Knitting;
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Shapes with little fish / by Cousins, Lucy,author.; Cousins, Lucy,illustrator.;
"Sometimes the best way to learn something new is with a hands-on approach - and in this sweet board book, the bold colors and friendly rhymes of a Little Fish story make the task go swimmingly. Little ones will love to trace the die-cut outlines of several simple shapes - a circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval, star, and heart - while immersing themselves in a bright undersea world"--Ages 0-3
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