The Shield - Season 3 (DVD)
Transgressing the seemingly rock-solid boundaries of regular television programming, THE SHIELD refuses the strictures of black and white depictions of clear-cut moral dilemmas in favor of an ambiguity that will challenge even the most jaded viewers. Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis, THE COMMISH) leads the elite Strike Team in the fictional LA district of Farmington. He employs dubious but effective crime fighting methods as a tough, effective, but corrupt cop. The other detectives and cops on the force disapprove of the Team's methods, to say the least, while the precinct head, Captain David Aceveda (Benito Martinez, ) is just as corrupt as Mackey, but his political aspirations lead him into a campaign to end the detective's career. The stoic, upright Detective Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder ER, BOYCOTT), who understands both sides of the game, provides a much needed balance and rationality to the mix. The charismatic Mackey strikes just the right pitch so as to be the least sympathetic antihero television has yet seen, while retaining his audience, who refuses to write him off quite yet. Meanwhile, the controversial themes and violent nature of the content manages the effect--inconsistent at best in TV programming--of making audiences really think about what they're watching.
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Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
4 Disc Set
Reality TV
What is the purpose of reality television? Does it provide information and education to the audience, or are the program makers simply exploiting real people's lives for the purposes of entertainment? Can we rely on documentaries to follow the ethics of programme making in terms of truth and accuracy?
Real TV offers a wide-ranging, international, contemporary investigation into the field of factual entertainment, combining historical, theoretical, economic, aesthetic and empirical approaches. The book also provides a sustained investigation into ethical issues and public interest in order to show that such concepts are integral to an understanding of the development of factual entertainment.
The current growth rate for real TV in factual and fictional television programs, film and websites on both sides of the Atlantic, has given rise to international debate about the function and influence of factual entertainment on audiences and mass media. Real TV presents a timely...
Reality TV 
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Acting in Film
Academy Award-winning actor MICHAEL CAINE, internationally acclaimed for his talented performances in movies for over twenty-five years, reveals secrets for success on screen.
Acting in Film
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Vaughan Williams, Tausky, Moody, Jacob / Reilly, Marriner
Track Listing:
Pieces (5) for Harmonica and Orchestra
Little Suite
Concertino for Harmonica
Romance for Harmonica, Strings and Piano in D flat major
Vaughan Williams, Tausky, Moody, Jacob / Reilly, Marriner
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Out of Order (DVD)
OUT OF ORDER is the pilot episode for the original Showtime television series of the same name. Eric Stoltz stars as Mark Colm, a Hollywood screenwriter floundering in his marriage to clinically depressed Lorna (Felicity Huffman), who is also a screenwriter. As Lorna masks her depression with drugs and alcohol, Mark contemplates a series of affairs with sexy suburban housewives Danni (Kim Dickens) and Annie (Justine Bateman). Helmed by real-life husband-and-wife screenwriting team Wayne and Donna Powers (THE ITALIAN JOB, DEEP BLUE SEA), OUT OF ORDER is a semi-autobiographical exploration of the pressures of couplehood in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Employing a witty meta style--Mark believes his life is being filmed for an audience and frequently addresses the camera or explains his thoughts via voiceover--and featuring cameos by William H. Macy and Peter Bogdanovich as industry-types, OUT OF ORDER offers a fanciful, yet realistic, insider's view of love and life in Tinseltown.
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