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Topic Film : 25 results | page 1 of 3 pages
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First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture - David Sheen (Director)
A manifesto filmed over four years and four continents, this proposal contends that earthen homes—those made from cob, straw, clay, adobe bricks, and rammed earth—are the healthiest and best houses in the world. Also posing that suburban sprawl should be transformed into eco-villages, this discussion provides evidence of the benefits of this lifestyle in every cultural and socioeconomic context, ...
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City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema - Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover
The world first took notice of Hong Kong cinema in the 1970s, when Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon brought a new level of psychological realism movies being made up until that point. But it wasn't until the 1980s that a new generation of directors and stars—a moviemaking system, in fact—reached its boiling point, and American audiences began to hear about John Woo's "...
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FLOW - Irena Salina (Director)
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st century: The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with ...
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Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War - Sticks and Stones (Director)
On March 20, 2003—the day after the war started—San Francisco was brought to a grinding halt by thousands of activists who occupied the streets to oppose the war. It was a mass uprising that forced the police to declare the financial district "shut down." The planning and outreach coordinated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW), filled downtown San Francisco with approximately 15,000 people c...
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Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema
This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and practice between the eighties and the nineties. Readers, whether engaged in the making of films, the study of them, or simply the pleasure of viewing them, will appreciate the way in which the author discusses and demystifies the current methods of analysis, incl...
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Mostly True: The Story Of Bozo Texino - Bill Daniel
It's possible Bill Daniel is the most inspiring filmmaker of our day. With
an impressive filmography that includes work on Craig Baldwin's Sonic Outlaws and Spectres Of The Spectrum and as Vanessa Renwick's long-time collaborator, Daniel has crafted a remarkable first feature with his twenty-years-in-the-making Who Is Bozo Texino? a documentary about modern day hoboes, rail workers an...
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The Cineaste Interviews 2: Filmakers On The Art And Politics Of The Cinema - Gary Crowdus (Editor) and Dan Georgakas (Editor)
Cineaste, America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema, has been acclaimed worldwide for its interviews with filmmakers and film critics. In the early 1980s, a collection of some of the best of these was published as The Cineaste Interviews. Now, Cineaste Interviews 2 takes on the aesthetic and political issues that have dominated the film scene over the last twenty y...
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Film And Video: Alternative Views - Richard Kostelanetz
Having already published collections of critical essays on fiction, poetry, performance, politics and visual art, Richard Kostelanetz for the first time selects here from his writings on film and video. As in earlier volumes, these essays emphasize the primacy of possibilities intrinsic in each medium. Always representing radical alternatives, he writes with uncommon perception not only about familiar issues...
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What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library - Elizabeth Fink (Included), Beverly Axelrod (Included), Marilyn Buck (Included), Donald Cox (Included), Roz Payne (Editor), Bobby Seale (Included), and Kathleen Neal Cleaver (Included)
"The invaluable Movement documentaries Newsreel produced furthered the work of the Black Panther Party and now provide the esdentail visual record of the Party's early days. This new dvd collection offers an extraordinary compilation that includes historic behind the scenes details taken from a wide range of interviews and contemporary events as well as the classic Newsreel films."—Kathleen Cleaver, C...
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Anarchism in America DVD - Jello Biafra (Interviewed), Murray Bookchin (Interviewed), Ursula Le Guin (Contributor), Paul Avrich (Contributor), Kenneth Rexroth (Contributor), Steven Fischler, and Joel Sucher
Two fascinating documentaries on one DVD. Both are the work of Emmy and Guggenheim Award-winning filmmakers, Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher. In the first, Anarchism in America, the two take a road trip to map anarchism as a distinctly American tradition, interviewing a diverse cast of characters: from "ordinary" truckers and farmers to famous anarchists like Kenneth Rexroth, Ursula LeGuin, and Murray...
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