Mark Harris
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English
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In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified. In Five Came Back, he achieves something larger and even more remarkable, giving us the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film...
3) The southpaw
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English
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Coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond, left-hander Henry Wiggen grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings, to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, the sports page and himself-all at once. The first installation of a series that includes Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw is a comic and poignant look at Henry Wiggen's first season in the majors. Based on...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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An account of how the revolution hit Hollywood, told through the stories of the five films nominated for the 1967 Academy Awards. Tracks five movies--the milestones : Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, on their five-year journey to Oscar night in 1968.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back. Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind without parallel: while still in his 20's, he was half of a lucrative hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country....
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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All but closed to outside visitors and influence, its public posture guarded and combative, we see almost nothing from inside North Korea. Award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has had rare access to this reclusive country, traveling within its borders as well as documenting life along its northern border with China and the highly militarized DMZ dividing North and South Korea. His images are amazing: the monumental architecture and empty...
9) Foster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winning filmmakers Deborah Oppenheimer and Mark Jonathan Harris reunite for a revealing first-hand look at the foster care system as seen through the eyes of those who know it best. With extraordinary access to the inner workings of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Oppenheimer and Harris go beyond the sensational headlines and stereotypes.
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
Description
This documentary examines the conditions for Jewish refugees after World War II, from their aspirations to emigrate to the reality of continued antisemitism. Academy Awards: Best Documentary, Features - Winner (Marvin Hier, Richard Trank); Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Price - Documentary Nominee (Mark Jonathan Harris); Awards Circuit Community Awards: ACCA - Best Documentary Feature Nominee; Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Hugo - Winner...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed Night of the living dead, a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day. Birth of the living dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers - policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad-men, housewives and a roller-rink owner - to shoot a revolutionary...
14) Breaking Point
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This documentary looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians. Nominated for a Social Justice Award at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**. *"An impeccably made story-of-a-siege documentary that shows you how a revolution evolves, step by step, into a collective writhing being."* - Owen Gleiberman,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press trade paperback edition.
Language
English
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"The Black Guy Dies First explores the Black journey in modern horror cinema, from the fodder epitomized by Spider Baby to the Oscar-winning cinematic heights of Get Out and beyond. This eye-opening book delves into the themes, tropes, and traits that have come to characterize Black roles in horror since 1968, a year in which race made national headlines in iconic moments from the enactment of the 1968 Civil Rights Act and Martin Luther King Jr.'s...
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Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in this superbly crafted film about the unlikely friendship between two baseball players. Moriarty plays the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; De Niro is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks all of Moriarty's sophistication. He is also dying. During their last season together on a team fraught with bickering and infighting, the two men grow into manhood and respect for themselves and each other....
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged demonstrations as spelled out in declassified government...
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