Death of a Salesman: What Dreams, Part 3

The dreams become reality when we learn more about how things were back when for the Loman family.

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Viking Press. New York, 1949.

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Death of a Salesman: Father and Son Complaints, Part 2

Willy and Linda talk about his problems and Biff while Biff and Happy make plans after waking up.

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Viking Press. New York, 1949.

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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller's play examines the American Dream at its heart: the family. We talk about the author then why the play is banned and get into it a little.

Banned

• 1974 - Texas - Challenged at the Dallas Independent School District high school libraries

• 1981 - Indiana - Spring Valley Community High School English in French Lick banned the play from English classes for using the words "goddamn," "son of a bitch," and "bastard."

• 1987 - Kentucky - Pulaski County High School in Sinking Valley challenged it as "junk" from a required reading assignment

• 1997 - Illinois - Egyptian High School in Tamms challenged but retained the play as offensive because of "profanity."

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Viking Press. New York, 1949.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: House Guest, Part 4

Alice fights off animals trying to get in their house, hangs with a puppy, and converses with a caterpillar smoking a hookah

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Animal Tails, Part 3

Alice hangs out with some animals and hears a sad tail then masquerades as a housekeeper and gets stuck in a house.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Down the Hole, Part 2

Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds a room of doors and something to drink, just like we all did in college.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Part 1

We cover Lewis Carroll and Alice falls down a hole into a mysterious world filled with nonsense and math problems.

Banned

1931 - China - Banned because "Animals should not use human language, and that it was disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level."

Sources

Carroll, Lewis. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass." Bantam Classic. New York, 2006.

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Moby Dick Read-a-Long

New for the library is a read-a-long series of two classic books featuring commentary! We hope you had a great day!

Paths of Glory (1957)

Four men go on trial for cowardice in this Stanley Kubrick film that was not liked by anyone who thought the French Army was better than they were.

Banned

• 1957

  • Belgium - required a foreward saying it was one case and not indicative of the French military

  • France - banned for being "anti-military"

  • Germany - banned due to strained relationship with France at the time

  • Spain - Francisco Franco's leadership banned it for being anti-military until 1986, 11 years after Franco's death

  • Switzerland - banned as "subversive propaganda directed at France" until 1978

  • United States - banned in military establishments home and abroad for being "anti-war"

Sources

"Banned! Criterion's Forbidden Films". Criterion.com. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-01-20. Retrieved March 22, 2019 from https://web.archive.org/web/20140120212846/https://www.criterion.com/lists/170366-banned-criterion-s-forbidden-films

Kubrick, Stanley (dir.). Paths of Glory. Bryna Productions, 1957.

"Paths of Glory (1958) - Articles". TCM.com. 1957-09-18. Retrieved March 22, 2019 from http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/19285/Paths-of-Glory/articles.html

Robertson, Nan (15 March 1975). "French Delay Showing Films on Touchy Topics". New York Times, 1975. Retrived March 22, 1919 from https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/15/archives/french-delay-showing-films-on-touchy-topics.html

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No Escape (2015)

A random white family finds themselves in the middle of an Asian coup and have to get out before they are executed.

Banned

2015 - Cambodia - "negative portrayal of local culture" caused it to be banned by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts

Sources

Dowdle, John Erick (dir.) No Escape. Weinstein Company, 2015.

"Cambodia bans screening of Hollywood movie No Escape". Aa.com.tr. 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2018 March 17 from https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/cambodia-bans-screening-of-hollywood-movie-no-escape/9618

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