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1) Main Street
Author
Language
English
Description
Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism.
2) Animal farm
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia...
3) Babbitt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dissects the character of a middle-class businessman whose search for material wealth and social status leave him spiritually sterile and doomed to destruction in pre-Depression America.
4) Numero zero
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know...
7) Schizopolis
Series
Criterion collection volume 199
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A satire, featuring a downtrodden everyman, poking fun at cults, gurus, marriage and dentistry.
8) Cat's cradle
Author
Language
English
Description
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Finally back in print -- Gore Vidal's outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece. "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she...
10) Gung Ho
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their...
11) Reality
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder stars in this wonderfully weird and hilarious Hollywood satire, featuring a mysterious VHS tape, killer TVs and a giant rat.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogath and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.
15) The Yes Men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed--hook, line and sinker--the Yes Men must up the satirical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" offers his opinions, untarnished by facts or research, on important issues in modern American society, including higher education, pets, religion, sports, sex, and the Hollywood agenda.
19) The Lobster
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A darkly comic fable from Yorgos Lanthimos (*Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite*), this acclaimed film centers on recently-divorced David (Colin Farrell) as he searches for a new love within 45 days—at which point, if he’s still single, he will be turned into a lobster. Nominated for an **Oscar** for Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for a **Golden Globe** for Best Actor. Winner of three prizes at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*The Lobster...
20) The Comedy
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tim Heidecker stars as an aging hipster testing the limits of acceptable behavior with his like-minded friends in this provocative character study. Nominated for prizes at the **Sundance Film Festival** and the **SXSW Film Festival**. "*Transgressively brilliant... an itchy critique of entitlement starring avant-garde comedian Tim Heidecker as one of Williamsburg's overprivileged.*" - Aaron Hillis, ***Village Voice***
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