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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography explores this talented singer and actress' life, and struggles with bipolar disorder. Readers find out about her early acting days on Barney and Friends with Selena Gomez to being "discovered" by Disney to her Stay Strong special on MTV.
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Act out the story of Lucky, a firehouse dog, and learn about the role of firefighters while practicing fluency! Lucky takes a cat, Pumpkin, on a tour of the firehouse, teaching Pumpkin all about how firefighters prepare for an emergency and help the community. This charming script has been translated into Spanish. The roles in this leveled script are written at different reading levels, allowing teachers to use differentiation strategies to assign...
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A dramatic, true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best. For six weeks in the Spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter around war-torn South Sudan talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and...
6844) Stars Fell on Stockton: The story of The Denvers: A memoir of life in a rock band in the 1960s
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It is May 1962. The 'phone rings. Brian, 15 year-old grammar-schoolboy and bass player in the Denvers, picks up the receiver. It is Sam Curtis, ex Road Manager of the Shadows, "How would you like to go to France?" Four days later the Denvers leave Stockton for London and France. Roy (16 years old) and Brian have both left school, Roy days before his O-levels! Louis and Johnny, both 21 and painters and decorators, have packed in their jobs. Thus begins...
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Une fiche de référence sur Gran Torino, un chef-d'oeuvre de Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood a assigné une place particulière à Gran Torino (2008). Il a annoncé que ce serait, irrévocablement, sa dernière prestation en tant qu'acteur. Par ailleurs, le film paraît reprendre la thématique de la justice expéditive telle qu'elle s'exprimait dans L'Inspecteur Harry.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur...
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Une fiche de référence sur L'ge des possibles, un chef-d'oeuvre de Pascale Ferran.
La nouveauté de L'ge des possibles est d'autant plus surprenante qu'elle n'a pas été recherchée. Le film est né d'une commande: écrire un scénario pour dix comédiens.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'Encyclopaedia Universalis associent une analyse du film et un...
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Une fiche de référence sur Manhattan, un chef-d'oeuvre de Woody Allen.
À la fin des années 1970, Woody Allen semble se décider à aborder de front les problèmes existentiels qu'avaient traités en leur temps les cinéastes auxquels il voue une admiration sans bornes, Renoir, Fellini et Bergman.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'Encyclopaedia Universalis...
6848) Andy Griffith Show Book
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The Andy Griffith Show was one of the most successful series in television history. It ranked among the top ten shows in the nation during each of its eight prime-time seasons, from 1960 to 1968. Over forty years later, the 249 episodes still remain some of the most frequently watched syndicated shows on television. In this book, Richard Kelly makes clear to everyone, from the occasional fan to the serious student of television, why The Andy Griffith...
6849) Japanese Theatre
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Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song dance skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama all fully described by the author. In the modem era the Japanese...
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Une fiche de référence sur Esther Kahn, un chef-d'oeuvre d'Arnaud Desplechin.
Comment ne pas penser ici à François Truffaut et à sa Chambre verte ? Impossible, également, en voyant Esther Kahn, de ne pas se souvenir de L'Enfant sauvage et des Deux Anglaises et le continent.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'Encyclopaedia Universalis associent une...
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Among the topics explored in David Bowie and Philosophy are the nature of Bowie as an institution; Bowie's work in many platforms, including movies and TV; Bowie's spanning of low and high art, and his relation to Warhol; the influence of Buddhism and Kabuki theater; the recurring theme of Bowie as a space alien, including 'Space Oddity' and The Man Who Fell to Earth; the dystopian element in Bowie's thinking, displayed in '1984' and the album Outside;...
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In his speech following the 2011nationwide riots in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke out against people "being too unwilling for too long to talk about what is right and what is wrong" and proclaimed "this relativism – it's not going to cut it anymore". He was, then, presumably laying the foundation for one-size-fits-all absolutist authoritarianism and, worryingly, the moral outrage induced by the riots means a large proportion of the...
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Une fiche de référence sur La Terre, un chef-d'oeuvre de Youssef Chahine.
Tourné au Fayoum, dans le delta du Nil, La Terre retrace une légende et se fait également chronique au quotidien d'un village égyptien des années 1930. Venu du Caire, un enfant retourne chez son père passer des vacances au village. Symbole de l'innocence, cet enfant sera le témoin des injustices et de la violence.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que...
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Une fiche de référence sur Be happy, un chef-d'oeuvre de Mike Leigh.
Intitulé dans la version originale Happy-go-lucky (« Insouciant/e »), le nouveau film de Mike Leigh aurait pu être sous-titré La mélancolie du bonheur, plutt que Be Happy — une injonction qui réduit quelque peu le propos de l'auteur.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Be happy de Mike Leigh.
A PROPOS DES FICHES CINEMA D'UNIVERSALIS
Les...
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Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two channels together engage audio-vision, a special mode of perception that transforms both seeing and hearing. We don't see images and hear...
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Life often glares at us as an unanswered question. When we are frozen in some problems, the question of what's next is one of the most frightening to many. Some will quickly get out of that stalemate. Some will shut themselves up in it. Certain diseases try to paralyze a person mentally and physically. When it tries to destroy us, then we bravely defeat it head-on, and our success there will be achieved. Similarly, the unexpected departure of loved...
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In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so thoroughly, or provided as broad a view of the state of the art in the 1990s.
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With2014 marking the 60th anniversary of the release of Elvis Presleys first record, Thats All Right, this book makes the perfect companion for celebrating the life and music of one of the worlds most popular entertainers. Packed with history, trivia, lists, little-known facts, and must-do adventures, legions of Elvis fans around the globe who still adore him more than three decades after his death will delight in this ode to The King. Ranked from...
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Shock! Theater
For the decades between 1930 and 1950, the undisputed masters of horror were Universal Pictures. From their early success with Dracula and Frankenstein to the later additions, such as the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Universal has created and popularized more memorable creature flicks than any other studio.
By the time the 1950s had come around, filmgoers' tastes had changed from the supernatural monsters that Universal excelled...
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Most of the world remembers Ronald Reagan and Nancy (Davis) Reagan as geriatric figures in the White House in the 1980s. And, it remembers Jane Wyman as the fierce empress, Angela Channing, in the decade's hit TV series, Falcon Crest. But, long before that, two young wannabee stars, Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, had arrived as untested hopefuls in Hollywood. Each of them separately stormed Warner Brothers, looking for movie stardom and love-and finding...
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