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The royal road

Call Number

  • DVD 979.4 R8888 (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Voiceover by Jenni Olson ; voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner.

Publication Information

New Almaden, CA : Wolfe Video, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A cinematic essay, The Royal Road offers up a primer on Junipero Serra's Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo--all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as a documentary in 2015.

Special features: Four short films by Jenni Olson: 575 Castro Street, Meep meep!, Blue diary, and Sometimes ; interview with Jenni Olson ; the Royal Road trailer.

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