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- It must be beautiful to be finished : a memoir of my body / by Gies, Kate,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When Kate Gies was four years old, a plastic surgeon pressed a synthetic ear to the right side of her head and pulled out a mirror. He told her he could make her "whole" -- could make her "right" -- and she believed him. From the age of four to thirteen, she underwent fourteen surgeries, including skin and bone grafts, to craft the appearance of an outer ear. Many of the surgeries failed, leaving permanent damage to her body. In short, lyrical vignettes, Kate writes about how her "disfigured" body was scrutinized, pathologized, and even weaponized. She describes the physical and psychic trauma of medical intervention, and its effects on her sense of self, first as a child needing to be fixed, and later, as a teenager and adult, navigating the complex expectations and dangers of being a woman. It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished is the story of a girl desperately trying to have a body that makes her acceptable and of a woman learning to own a body she never felt was hers to define. In an age of speaking out about the abuse of marginalized bodies, this memoir takes a hard look at the medical system's role in body oppression and trauma"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gies, Kate.; Gies, Kate; Gies, Kate; Aesthetics; Body image; Ear, External; Body image;
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- Lenny. by Fosse, Bob,film director.; Hoffman, Dustin,actor.; Miner, Jan,actor.; Perrine, Valerie,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dustin Hoffman, Jan Miner, Valerie PerrineOriginally produced by MGM in 1974.Dustin Hoffman brings controversial comedian Lenny Bruce to life in this powerful portrait of an artist who turns comedy and America on its ear with his often offensive humor. But life in the on the comedy circuit begins to take its toll on Bruce. The drugs and arrests for his subject matter wear heavily on him but don't stop him from pushing the envelope right to his tragic and myth-making end.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
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- Blue Velvet. by Lynch, David,film director.; Hopper, Dennis,actor.; Rossellini, Isabella,actor.; MacLachlan, Kyle,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlanOriginally produced by MGM in 1986.Clean-cut college boy Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) finds his Mayberry-like hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field. His investigation catapults him into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a drug-addicted sadist (Dennis Hopper). Soon Jeffrey's led deeper into their depraved existence, finding himself obsessed with this dark, enigmatic underworld...to the point of no return. Directed by David Lynch.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Crime.; Detective and mystery films.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
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- Going to Mars. by Brewster, Joe,film director.; Stephenson, Michèle,film director.; Giovanni, Nikki,actor.; Kino Lorber (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Nikki GiovanniOriginally produced by Kino Lorber in 2023.Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, this beguiling documentary portrait follows poet and activist Nikki Giovanni as she approaches 80. The film explores Giovanni’s Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject’s own aesthetic verve. Looking back at a personal life and history cast in the long shadow of American racism, and forward to hopeful, possible futures, Giovanni acts as our guide and narrator, with refreshingly unorthodox filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson refraining from traditional chronologies or talking-head conventions. GOING TO MARS is fueled by constant intellectual engagement and radical imagination in the search for emotional and political fulfillment in a world of disenfranchisement.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Literature.; Arts.; History, Modern.; Human rights.; Sociology.; Homosexuality.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; LGBTQ.; Artists.; Current affairs.; History.; Poetry.; African Americans.; Biography.;
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