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Series
Anti-slavery propaganda collection Oberlin College 1835-1863 volume fiches 50,829-50,845
Language
English
82) Straw dogs
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1941.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving...
85) Sleep furiously
Publisher
Microcinema International
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Set in a small farming community in mid-Wales, a place where the director's parents-both refugees-found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanized world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the filmmaker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world...
Series
Publisher
Typecast Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Arabic
Description
The story of young man who takes a job as a schoolteacher in a village in the Tunisian desert, and is enveloped by mysterious and sublime events. A ship found apparently washed up, mysterious drifters shrouded in clouds of dust who haunt the dunes, labyrinths of underground corridors, vivid colors backdropped by bleak landscapes and ancient architectures, all combined with the unusual disappearances of the local young men, create strange circumstances....
87) Straw dogs
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
88) Parched
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Hindi
Description
Inspirational drama women who are set in the heart of parched rural landscape of Gujarat India.
Author
Publisher
Quercus Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chipping Norton's farmer Kaleb Cooper has strong views on lots of things: sheep ('suicidal morons'), Jeremy Clarkson ('there are two types of farming, unless you count whatever it is Jeremy thinks he's doing'), goats ('they're a proper good clear-up animal, they eat everything -- no wonder they taste horrible'), New York ('if it's like London, where there are no tractors, that's no good') and more. In The World According to Kaleb, he shares his thoughts...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Oliver Douglas is a well read lawyer who has had enough of the hustle and bustle of New York, so he pulls up stakes to settle down in a more pastoral setting, much to the dismay of his glamorous wife Lisa, who's more accustomed to life in The Big Apple than on a small farm.
96) Edwardian farm
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this twelve-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists and historians go back in time to the early 1900's to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year.
97) Straw dogs
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young American mathematician moves with his English wife, Amy, to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Galloway, an ancient town in an obscure corner of Scotland, has a proud and unique heritage based on hardy cattle and wide moors. But as the twentieth century progressed, the people of Galloway deserted the land and the moors have been transformed into commercial forest. Desperate to connect with his native land, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm. Investing in the oldest and most traditional breeds of Galloway cattle, he begins...
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