Black, Karen 1942-

Overview

Works:	204 works in 458 publications in 8 languages and 14,297 library holdings
Roles:	Actor, Performer, Author of screenplay
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1960 |

|2020

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Publications about Karen Black

Publications by Karen Black

Most widely held works about Karen Black

Karen Black (Karen Blanche Ziegler) by David L Smith ( Book )
Karen Black, actress ( Visual )
Parmount press book and merchandising manual : the day of the locust by Paramount Pictures Corporation ( Book )

Most widely held works by Karen Black

Nashville ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1975 and 2006 in English and held by 1,427 libraries worldwide
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.

Five easy pieces ( Visual )
23 editions published between 1970 and 2010 in English and held by 1,359 libraries worldwide
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.

The Great Gatsby ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1982 and 2004 in English and held by 1,335 libraries worldwide
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.

Family plot ( Visual )
19 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 761 libraries worldwide
A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered.

Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1973 and 2003 in English and held by 599 libraries worldwide
Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely?

Ralph S. Mouse --and more exciting animal adventure stories ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 480 libraries worldwide
In "Ralph S. Mouse," there are too many mice at the Mountain View Inn, so Ralph must leave. He persuades his friend Ryan to take him to school, where the fun and the danger begin. "Stanley and the Dinosaurs" features the adventures of Stanley, a caveman who likes to garden and paint pictures. When Mother and Father Elephant are lost at sea, their elephant son is left all alone. But not for long. Old "Uncle Elephant," who has more wrinkles than the beach has sand, makes a new home for his young nephew.

The Great Gatsby ( Visual )
14 editions published between 1974 and 2003 in English and held by 464 libraries worldwide
About a mysterious American millionaire whose efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.

The day of the locust ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in English and held by 412 libraries worldwide
A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcoholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer.

Faerie tale theatre ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 372 libraries worldwide
This award-winning series brings to life 26 of the most magical classic fairy tales of all time, now digitally remastered.

Stories about Ralph S. Mouse ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and held by 331 libraries worldwide
In "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" Ralph makes a friend. Stuck at a hotel for the weekend, Kevin lets Ralph borrow his toy motorcycle, and while out for a spin Ralph has a series of exciting adventures. Ralph returns for "Runaway Ralph" wherein he runs away from his home at the Mountain View Inn. But the Happy Acres Summer Camp is not what Ralph has in mind - lucky for him, his friend Garf is a friend indeed. In "Ralph S. Mouse," there are too many mice at the Mountain View Inn, so Ralph must leave. He persuades his friend Ryan to take him to school, where the fun and the danger begin.

Capricorn One ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1993 and 2008 in English and held by 308 libraries worldwide
Three astronauts are forced by NASA to participate in an elaborate hoax. Capricorn One makes the first 'manned' mission to Mars but the astronauts remain on Earth to be filmed in a studio made up to look like the Martian surface. When the empty capsule burns up on re-entry, the world believes the astronauts to be dead. A struggle ensues between the government and the astronauts whose very existence incriminates NASA.

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the city ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 293 libraries worldwide
In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.

Shelley Duvall's Faerie tale theatre. Princess tales ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 287 libraries worldwide
Cinderella: Cinderella is a slave to her wicked stepmother and her selfish stepsisters, until her Fairy Godmother arrives and turns her into a radiant princess ; The little mermaid: When a young mermaid falls in love with a human being, she makes a deal with the Sea Witch and sacrifices everything to be with him ; The dancing princesses: After the king discovers that his daughters' dancing shoes are worn out every night, he offers to let anyone who can solve the mystery choose any of the princesses to have as his bride ; The princess and the pea: A bored prince decides that the best way to cheer himself up is to get married, so he goes through his mother's list of eligible princesses.

The Little mermaid ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1984 and 1987 in English and held by 259 libraries worldwide
The Little Mermaid longs to join the world of the handsome prince who has stolen her heart, but for her dream to come true she must leave the mermaid kingdom and never return.

Airport terminal pack ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 240 libraries worldwide
Airport: The original airplane disaster movie in which a passenger brings an explosive device on board the aircraft.

Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco ( Recording )
3 editions published between 1973 and 1974 in English and held by 210 libraries worldwide
From the "theatre of the absurd," this is the story of a man caught by the fear of remaining a human being when his fellow citizens are achieving animalistic conformity by turning into rhinoceroses.

House of 1000 corpses ( Visual )
6 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in English and held by 203 libraries worldwide
Two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism, and satanic rituals are just a few of the horrors that await them.

The little mermaid ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 190 libraries worldwide
The Little Mermaid longs to join the world of the handsome prince who has stolen her heart, but for her dream to come true she must leave the mermaid kingdom and never return.

Conceiving Ada ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1998 and 2010 in English and held by 186 libraries worldwide
"A dramatized biography of Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron and mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers. Ada's story is told through Emmy, a contemporary computer scientist who is researching artificial life. By using her own genetic code, Emmy is able to collapse time and link her world directly to Ada's. Realizing how parallel their lives are, she embarks on the task of "saving" Ada as the lines between the past and present, virtual reality and reality blur in the process."--Container.

Burnt offerings ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1984 and 2003 in English and held by 180 libraries worldwide
Finding it hard to believe they rented a sprawling country mansion for $900, a family soon finds themselves surrounded by an evil, hypnotic, occult force that feeds on torture, fear and murder.