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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We live in the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, it's practical, and it's everywhere - from the highest mountains to the hottest deserts, from the North Pole to the South Pole. It's even part of us - inside our blood. Should we be worried? In Plastic Planet, director Werner Boote takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps - to reveal the...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The engineering trends of the 20th century - economy of scale, mechanization, and scientific experimentation - were based on new materials. Dive into the world of steel, glass, and plastics and find out how these materials transformed our daily lives and our expectation of what the world should look like.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An outrageous jolt of British exploitation, Primitive London (1965) is an exposé of the hidden desires and bizarre vices that percolate behind the exterior of English life. Beginning with the graphic birth of a baby, director Arnold Miller sketches out the options for a child in the new England. So he profiles the stylistic garishness of the mods, the anti-establishment posturing of the rockers, and the lonely lives of pinball addicts. The youth...
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
‘OUR NECK OF THE WOODS’ explores the world of Bob Underwood, a disenchanted line foreman at Pilgrimtown’s Mold-O-Form factory. Day after day, he produces plastic lawn-ornament deer, secretly longing for more out of life. But his family obligations and inability to assert himself keep him in the same position year after year. One day Elsa, a Georgian refugee, is relocated to work at the factory. Enchanted by her quiet thoughtfulness and haunting...
5) We Home
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WE HOME is the story of Ben and Javan, two urban kids living in South Central. When they storm out of their home one day, the boys decide not to turn back. Homeless, they roam the cold and empty streets, until they arrive at a lavish private college campus. They find shelter in the college library and pass time until they are kicked out at close. As Ben and Javan walk through the college residences, Javan notices a college student walking up ahead....
6) Mean girls
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
She is her own worst nightmare. When you meet Sue, she does not make eye contact. She does not offer to shake your hand. She may fixate on the buttons of your shirt, but cannot say your name. Sue Rubin has autism, a complicated disorder that causes her to act in many strange ways. For researchers, doctors, and psychologists, autism is mysterious and complex, its causes and cures still unknown. But this is not a film about experts or theories. In Autism...
Series
Publisher
Eagle Vision
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A look at the creation of this groundbreaking album, the first after the break-up of The Beatles, through interviews, archive footage, and detailed analysis of the original multi-track masters. Includes material not seen in the original broadcast.
Language
中文
Formats
Description
1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. During the three-year-and -eight-month occupation, the Japanese military pillages homes and arrests cultural figures living in Hong Kong. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing these cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city. Primary school teacher Fang Lan (Zhou Xun) and her mother (Deanie Ip) are trying to live out this difficult period in a small run-down...
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