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Great Courses volume 3
Language
English
Description
Continue your exploration of the early history of utopia by examining notable works produced during the two centuries following More's initial work. Compare and contrast the ideas of "classical utopia" and "critical utopia" and understand how laughter was an integral part of 18th-century utopian storytelling, focusing on Voltaire's Candide and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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English
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In a mockumentary that satirizes the pilot season of the television industry, a documentary team follows the adventures of a young NYC comedienne as she attempts to get a TV pilot made in LA. While she goes largely unnoticed, her ex-boyfriend is discovered and becomes a hot new icon.
3) Visioneers
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English
Description
When people begin exploding from stress, George Washington Winsterhammerman tries to ignore the epidemic and live his usual life, but then he suffers his first symptom.
4) Hamlet 2
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When his Tucson, AZ school's theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything. He decides to write a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now, the drama department will stage one of the most politically incorrect musical extravaganzas ever seen. Dana and his class will put it all on the line for a night of conflict and controversial.
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Fox vs. Franken: In an absurd convergence of circumstances, Fox News filed a lawsuit against liberal imp Al Franken (they objected to his parody of their slogan "fair and balanced") in order to coddle star pundit Bill O'Reilly. The real joke is how badly Fox's efforts to muscle Franken backfired, putting them in the middle of a story so crazy, it reads like something Franken could have invented for one of his own books.
Poetic license: Explores...
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
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2 videodiscs (333 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Old-school stop-motion animation and fast-paced satire are the hallmarks of this eclectic show created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich. Action figures find new life as players in frenetic sketch-comedy vignettes that skewer TV, movies, and music.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
10) Putney Swope
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A comical satire which charts the rise and fall of a Madison Avenue ad agency previously controlled by Whites and is taken over by Blacks who are dedicated to the downfall of the White Establishment. The picture is mostly a parade of vignettes, dealing with people and campaigns of the advertising world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Swedish
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
12) Darling
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs -- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising...
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Coined impersonator extraordinaire, Hartman is responsible for some of SNL's favorite characters and sketches: Admiral James Stockdale (Ross Perot's running mate), the Sinatra Group, President Clinton at McDonald's. Other memorable impersonations and characters include Phil Donahue, Barbara Bush, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Jim Baker, Jesus, Frankenstein, and, of course, the Anal Retentive Chef. Enjoy the satire and hilarious character studies brought...
14) Lost in America
Series
Criterion collection volume 887
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
"In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and follow their Easy Rider fantasies of freedom and the open road"--Container.
15) Jojo Rabbit
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
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1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.
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1 videodisc (approximately 124 min., approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
Description
Por Mis Pistolas: Fidencio Barrenillo is on his way to Arizona in order to claim his late great-grandfather's deed for a silver mine. However, he finds himself caught up in a series of dangerous and comedic adventures while battling Apaches and vicious gunmen who have their eyes on Fidencio's silver. A clever satire of the "Spaghetti Westerns" of the 1960s, POR MIS PISTOLAS is an entertaining film filled with action and comedy. -- Fidencio Barrenillo...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1125
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm).
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日本語
Description
"It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly...
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