Television Criticism
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A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Children’s TV
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How Theatre Began: An Introduction to the History of Drama [VHS] $29.95 … |
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John Ehrlichman: In the Eye of the Storm, hosted by Tom Clancy [VHS] $39.95 In this two-volume video America’s best selling author, Tom Clancy, takes us inside the Nixon White House with longtime senior Nixon aide John Ehrlichman to explore the inner workings of the Nixon Administration and how its organization allowed the abuses of Watergate. In the documentary, which includes never-before-seen film from his personal archives, Ehrlichman, along with numerous othe… |
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Top Girls [VHS] $150.00 This video presents the complete two-hour BBC production of Caryl Churchill’s influential play, directed for television, by Max Stafford-Clark. Both Caryl Churchill and Max Stafford-Clark are interviewed, as well as several eminent drama academics, discussing the issue of gender and performance and the play’s structure, style and importance in modern drama study. Top Girls focuses the study of the… |
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Bjork: There’s More to Life Than This (Stories Behind Every Song) $5.55 Bjork is the most successful radical rock experimentalist of her generation. Contrary, inimitable, and gloriously her own, she has awed her famously dedicated fans for more than a decade with a swooping, querulous voice that has been likened to a glass not quite breaking. Bursting onto the Icelandic musical scene with a precocious album at the age of 11 and a series of releases in the 1980s that n… |
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Television’s Marquee Moon (33 1/3) $12.95 Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs a sign with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB which, he tells them, stands for “Country Bluegrass and Blues.” That’s exactly the sort of stuff they play, they lie, somehow managing to get a gig out of him. After the first show their band, Tel… |
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Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs $16.95 “Lexicon Devil is, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print. (Yes, folks: that includes Please Kill Me.) Great book!”—Richard Meltzer Production has started on the documentary feature based on the book…. |
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North & South $21.93 This acclaimed British miniseries takes place in 19th-century England and follows the story of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a privileged young woman who is uprooted from her comfortable Southern lifestyle when her family moves north to a mill town. Finding the conditions of the workers deplorable, Margaret is contemptuous of the mill’s charismatic owner, John Thornton (Richard Armitage), ev… |
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Weeds: Season One $4.96 All 10 first-season episodes–including “You Can’t Miss the Bear,” “Fashion of the Christ,” “Lude Awakening,” “The Punishment Light,” and “The Godmother”–are featured in a two-disc set. 4 3/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo; audio commentary on selected episodes; featurettes; music video. **10 episodes on 2 discs. 4 3/4 hrs.**… |
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The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1 $22.94 The first 12 episodes from season six–including “Members Only,” “Live Free or Die,” “Johnny Cakes,” “Moe and Joe,” and “Kaisha”–are collected in a four-disc set. 12 hrs. total. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; audio commentary on selected episodes. **12 episodes on 4 discs. 12 hrs.**… |
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1Q84 $30.50 Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: The year is 1984, but not for long. Aomame, on her way to meet a client–the gravid implications of which only come clear later–sits in a taxi, stuck in traffic. On a lark, she takes the driver’s advice, bolts from the cab, walks onto the elevated Tokyo expressway, descends an emergency ladder to the street below, and enters a strange new world. I… |
