Richard Ford
45) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
IFC Films, The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....
49) Canada
Author
Publisher
Éditions de l'Olivier
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
Français
Description
In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discriminaƯtion and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice--including conditions that aren't directly caused by bigotry? How do they stand up to segregation, for instance--a legacy of racism, but not the direct result of ongoing discriminaƯtion? It's tempting to believe that civil...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ford (The Race Card), a professor at Stanford Law School, seeks to apply a rationalist analysis of the efficacy of a multitude of antidiscrimination laws. Ford builds cogent although not unassailable arguments to conclude that such laws often undermine the rights they were designed to protect and can have unintended consequences that defeat larger social goals. Ford argues, for instance, that laws designed to ensure an adequate education for disabled...
Publisher
SNI/SI Networks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This documentary recounts the role of the Federal Writers Project as the largest cultural experiment in the nation's history. Program focuses on the role played by writers who recorded local and oral histories all over the nation, many finding national acclaim as a result.
59) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
IFC Films, The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....