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The brightest star : a novel / by Tsukiyama, Gail,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies, including young Wong Liu Tsong. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry, Wong Liu and her older sister Lew Ying (Lulu) are taunted and bullied for their Chinese heritage. But while Lulu diligently obeys her parents and learns to speak Chinese, Wong Liu sneaks away to the local nickelodeons, buying a ticket with her lunch money and tips saved from laundry deliveries. By eleven Wong Liu is determined to become an actress and has already chosen a stage name: Anna May Wong. At sixteen, Anna May leaves high school to pursue her Hollywood dreams, defying her disapproving father and her Chinese traditional upbringing, a choice that will hold emotional and physical consequences"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961; Chinese American women; Cultural appropriation; Motion picture actors and actresses; Racism in motion pictures;
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60 Days In. by A&E® (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by A&E® in 2016.60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Criminal law.; Social sciences.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Racism.;
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Paris Blues. by Ritt, Martin,film director.; Woodward, Joanne,actor.; Newman, Paul,actor.; Poitier, Sidney,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sidney PoitierOriginally produced by MGM in 1961.Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls (Joanne Woodward, Diahann Carroll) vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Director Martin Ritt creates a love letter to both jazz and the city of Paris.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Racism.; Foreign films.; Motion Pictures.; Drama.; Motion pictures.; Romance.;
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Resistance in a Hostile Environment: Uprising. by Rogan, James,film director.; McQueen, Steve,film director.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by BBC Studios in 2021.This visceral series explores how three seminal events during 1981 – a racist arson attack, the Black People’s Action Day protest, and riots in Brixton – intertwined. And how, in the process, race relations were defined for a generation.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; History, Modern.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; Racism.; African diaspora.; Race relations.; Police brutality.; Documentary television programs.; British Isles.;
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Empire of light [videorecording] / by Colman, Olivia,actor.; Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Harris, Pippa,film producer.; Jones, Toby,1966-actor.; Mendes, Sam,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Ward, Micheal,1995-actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Searchlight Pictures,production company.;
Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke, Tanya Moodie.A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, language and brief violence.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Coastal settlements; Interracial friendship; Man-woman relationships; People with bipolar disorder; Motion picture theaters; Racism;
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Green book [videorecording] / by Ali, Mahershala,1974-actor.; Cardellini, Linda,1975-actor.; Farrelly, Peter,film director.; Hatton, Mike,actor.; Lewis, Von,actor.; Maniscalco, Sebastian,actor.; Marinov, Dimiter D.,actor.; Mortensen, Viggo,1958-actor.; Stark, Don,1954-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton, Von Lewis, Don Stark.When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Comedy films.; Biographical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Shirley, Don, 1927-2013; Lip, Tony; African American entertainers; Motor vehicle drivers; Pianists; Concert tours; Racism; Italian Americans; Interracial friendship;
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The Chicano Squad. by Diaz, Mario,film director.; A&E® (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by A&E® in 2024.THE CHICANO SQUAD chronicles the US's first all-Latin police unit devoted to tackling Houston's soaring Latino murder rate. With no prior homicide experience, six former patrolmen fight racism and community mistrust to bring justice to their community.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Criminal law.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; Police.; Hispanic Americans.; Current events.; Documentary television programs.;
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Green book [videorecording] / by Ali, Mahershala,1974-actor.; Cardellini, Linda,1975-actor.; Farrelly, Peter,film director.; Hatton, Mike,actor.; Lewis, Von,actor.; Maniscalco, Sebastian,actor.; Marinov, Dimiter D.,actor.; Mortensen, Viggo,1958-actor.; Stark, Don,1954-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton, Von Lewis, Don Stark.When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.00:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Comedy films.; Biographical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Shirley, Don, 1927-2013; Lip, Tony; African American entertainers; Motor vehicle drivers; Pianists; Concert tours; Racism; Italian Americans; Interracial friendship;
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My Beautiful Laundrette. by Frears, Stephen,film director.; Day-Lewis, Daniel,actor.; Seth, Roshan,actor.; Jaffrey, Saeed,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth, Saeed JaffreyOriginally produced by MGM in 1986.Living with his alcoholic father in a shabby flat, Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is a teenager who wants to make something of himself. Omar is offered an opportunity by his uncle: manage a seedy laundrette. Omar hires old friend Johnny (Day-Lewis), an ex-member of a neo-fascist group, with dreams of turning the establishment into a veritable palace! But as Johnny's old friends take issue with their relationship, they must face racism, homophobia, violence and the politics of Thatcher's London head-on.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Drama.; Comedy.; Motion pictures.; Romance.;
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Clint : the man and the movies / by Levy, Shawn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."C-L-I-N-T. That single short, sharp syllable has stood as an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, on-screen and off-screen, for more than sixty years. Whether he's facing down bad guys on a Western street (Old West or new, no matter), staring through the lens of a camera, or accepting one of his movies' thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture), he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old-school stripe and one of the most accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint. To read the story of Clint Eastwood is to understand nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure has so completely and complexly stood inside the changing climates of post-World War II America. At age ninety-five, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions. We picture Clint squinting through cigarillo smoke in A Fistful of Dol-lars or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in Dirty Harry; sowing vengeance in The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider or Unforgiven; grudgingly training a woman boxer in Million Dollar Baby; and standing up for his neighbors despite his racism in Gran Torino. Or we feel him present, powerfully, behind the camera, creating complex tales of violence, morality, and humanity, such as Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, and American Sniper. But his roles and his films, however well cast and convincing, are two-dimensional in comparison to his whole life. As Shawn Levy reveals in this masterful biography -- the most com-plete portrait yet of Eastwood -- the reality is richer, knottier, and more absorbing. Clint: The Man and the Movies is a saga of cunning, determi-nation, and conquest, a story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping one foot firmly planted outside its door."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Eastwood, Clint, 1930-; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures; Motion pictures;
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