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Publication Date
2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life—moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS beautifully bares the artist’s process—and it’s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves. Nominated for a Documentary...
Publication Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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INTELLIGENT LIVES stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah, Naieer, and Naomie – who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce. Academy Award-winning actor and narrator Chris Cooper contextualizes the lives of these central characters through the emotional personal story of his son Jesse, as the film unpacks the shameful and ongoing track record of...
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (36 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don McPherson examines how narrow definitions of masculinity adversely affect women and create "blind spots" that hinder the healthy development of men. Dissecting the strict set of beliefs and behaviors that underpin our understanding of masculinity, he contends that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women, and argues that viewing violence against women as a "women's issue"...
5) Blackfish
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Killer whales – beloved, yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously – lie at the heart of BLACKFISH, which expands on the discussion of keeping such intelligent creatures in captivity. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In an era of U.S. expansion, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Eventually barred by anti-Asian laws, they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants.”
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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At the turn of the millennium, Asian Americans have become the fastest growing population in the U.S. It is a time of tremendous change, as the country tackles urgent debates over immigration, race and economic disparity.
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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During a time of war and social tumult, a young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claim a new identity: Asian Americans. The aftermath of the Vietnam War brings new immigrants and refugees.
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (277 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation.
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority, and suspected as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office.
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An American-born generation straddles their birth country and their familial homelands in Asia. Family loyalties are tested during WWII, when Japanese Americans are held in detention camps and brothers are on opposite sides of the battle.
Publication Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (39 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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From dungeon-like basements to worldwide phenomenon, ADVENTURE NEVER ENDS: A TABLETOP SAGA explores how tabletop roleplaying games have fought their way through decades of trial by fire to emerge at the height of pop culture— now shaping and bringing together millions of lives through storytelling. The film takes a behind the curtain look at an open community of fans, as well as youth programs who use tabletop roleplaying games to...
Publication Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Mass studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
14) Paris Is Burning
Publication Date
1990.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS,...
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Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Since buying her work by chance at auction, amateur historian John Maloof has crusaded to put this prolific photographer in the history books. Maier's strange and riveting life are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews...
Publication Date
[2009]
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2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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An exploration of the complex creative process that goes into making documentary films. Features interviews with 38 directors and 163 clips of scenes from classic films plus a bonus disc with over four hours of additional filmmaker interviews.
Publication Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, and ground-breaking photography, this epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin's personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
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Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations
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This volume reintroduces Peircean ideas within documentary studies. Through the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - this book attempts to reassert human agency within a global age dominated by skepticism and subservience to a mechanistic military techno-culture.
19) Rising Voices
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (149 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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From Emmy® Award-winner Lena Waithe, RISING VOICES is a collection of short films about the future of work from the next generation of Hollywood’s storytellers, in partnership with Indeed, Hillman Grad and 271 Films.
Author
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (XI, 351 pages) : 17 illustrations
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The theme of this book is the documentarian--what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept. Working from the premise that the documentarian is a special--extended--sign, the book develops a model of a quadruple sign structure for-and-of the documentarian, growing out of enduring traditions in philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and documentary theory. Dan Geva investigates the intellectual premise that allows the documentarian...





