RECENT LIBRARY VIDEO ACQUISITIONS by classification number-- November 2012
A - general
B - philosophy, psychology, religion
C - biography
D - history
E - history - United States
F - history - individual states, other North American countries
G - anthropology and geography
H - business and economics
J - political science
K - law
L - education
M - music
N - art
P - literature and film
Q - sciences
R - medicine
S - agriculture
T - engineering and technology
U - military science
V - naval science
W - medicine (NLM classification)
Z - library science
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Slim hopes [videorecording] : advertising and the obsession with thinness / written & presented by Jean Kilbourne ; a production of the Media Education Foundation.
Northampton, Mass. : Media Education Foundation, c2002.
"Slim Hopes offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, the program offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well -documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising."-- Container.
BF697.5.B63 S642.
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The living dead [videorecording] : three films about the power of the past / an Adam Curtis film.
[S.l.] : [s.n.], [201-?].
On the desperate edge of now: Examines how various national memories of World War II were effectively rewritten and manipulated during the Cold War period, focusing on Germany and the course of the Nurenburg Trials and denying the brutal memories of Allied soldiers in order to recast the war as a crusade of pure good against pure evil. NOTE = You have used me as a fish long enough: Looks at the history of brainwashing and mind control, and how psychiatry's effort to present the mond as a tabula rasa evolved from a way to set people free from traumatic memories to a way to develop an instrument of social control. Concludes that control over the past is more effectively exercised by the manipulation of history than by medical intervention. NOTE = The attic: Examines the imperial asperations of Margaret Thatcher, and how she used public relations and harking back to Britain's "glorious past" to fulfil a political or national end.
BF378.S65 L588 1995B.
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The Mormons [videorecording] / PBS ; Frontline and American Experience present ; produced by Helen Whitney ; written by Helen Whitney and Jane Barnes ; directed by Helen Whitney ; a Frontline and American Experience co-production with Helen Whitney Productions.
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2007.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership, now at over 12 million and growing, sweeps the globe. Nevertheless, from the moment of its founding in 1830, the church has been controversial. Within a month, it had 40 converts and almost as many enemies. In the early years, Mormons were hated, ridiculed, persecuted, and feared. Yet in the past several decades, the Mormon church has transformed itself from a fringe sect into a thriving religion that embraces mainstream American values; its members include prominent and powerful politicians, university presidents, and corporate leaders. Mormons have always had a peculiar hold on the American imagination, but few know who the Mormons actually are or who they claim to be, and their story is one of the great neglected American narratives.
BX8611 .M67 2007.
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Our country collection [videorecording].
Great Britain : British Film Institute : Paramint Cinema [distributor], c2008.
A collection of six British documentaries originally produced between 1944 and 1956. NOTE = Our Country: The steadfastness of the British people is a source of reassurance to a sailor traveling around the country while on leave during World War II. The dim little island: Jennings' penultimate film collects some thoughts of Britain's past, present and future from four men: Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer), James Fisher (naturalist), John Ormston (industrialist), and Osbert Lancaster (cartoonist), dispelling the image of "the dim little island." NOTE = Twenty-four square miles: Based on a 1943 study by the Agricultural Economic Research Institute at Oxford, analyzes in detail the assets and present and future needs of a small area in Oxfordshire. Harting, an English village: Explores the social patterns of a typical village on the Sussex Downs. NOTE = The Cumberland story: Examines modernization and ultimate nationalization of coal mines through the experiences of management and workers at the Cumberland coal mines. Rhondda and Wye: Contrasts the effects of mining in the Rhondda valley with the pastoral life in the Wye valley.
DA566.4 .O95 2008.
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Putin's kiss [videorecording] / Danish Film Institute ; Monday Production ; in association with Made in Copenhagen ; director, Lise Birk Pedersen ; producer, Helle Faber.
New York, NY : distributed by Kino Lorber Inc., [2012].
Portrays contemporary life in Russia through the story of Masha, a 19 year-old girl who is a member of Nashi, a political youth organization connected with the Kremlin. Extremely ambitious, the young Masha quickly rises to the top of Nashi, but begins to question her involvement when a dissident journalist whom she has befriended is savagely attacked.
DK510.762 P88 2011B.
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Masai women [videorecording] / Granada Colour Production ; produced and directed by Chris Curling.
[London] : Granada Television International : [Distributed by] Shanachie Entertainment Corp., p2003.
An ethnographic view of Masai culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai girls for marriage and life in their society. Probes, through a candid interview with an older woman, the feelings of the Masai women about polygamy and their inability to own property.
DT443.3.M37 M37 1974B.
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Cracking the codes : [videorecording] the system of racial inequity / World Trust Educational Services ; directed by Shakti Butler and Rick Butler ; producer, Shakti Butler.
Oakland, CA World Trust Educational Services, Inc. c2012.
Discusses the systematic disadvantages experienced by people of color in US society.
E185 .C874 2012.
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Oren Lyons the faithkeeper [videorecording] / a production of Public Affairs Television ; produced and directed by Betsy McCarthy.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.
Bill Moyers visits with Native American Chief Oren Lyons, who shares the spiritual basis of his environmentalism - a vision of the degradation of the earth as revealed to the Onondaga nation in 1799 - plus the ancient legends, prophecies, and wisdom of his tribe.
E98.P5 L96 2006.
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People of a feather [videorecording] / the Arctic Eider Society & Sanikiluaq Running Pictures present ; an International Polar Year Canada production ; a film by Joel Heath ; created by Joel Heath & the Community of Sanikiluaq ; filmed, directed & produced by Joel Heath.
[Sanikiluaq, Nunavut] : Sanikiluaq Running Pictures, [2012].
"Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Recreations of traditional life are juxtaposed with modern life in Sanikiluaq, as both people and eiders face the challenges posed by changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering eastern North America. The eyes of a remote subsistence culture challenge the world to find energy solutions that work with the seasons of our hydrological cycle."-- Container.
E99.E7 P457 2011.
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Mississippi chicken [videorecording] / Watchmaker Films presents ; writers, Anita Grabowski, John Fiege ; producers, John Fiege, Anita Grabowski, Victor Moyers ; director, John Fiege.
London : Watchmaker Films, c2009.
A rich, intimate tapestry of lives thus far disregarded by the mainstream media. The film takes the viewer into the lives of a Latin American immigrant population in a small poultry town in the New South. It explores the ongoing difficulties they face while documenting the increasing attempts to redress the balance by community organizers.
F350.S75 M57 2007B.
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Marion Stoddart [videorecording] : the work of 1000 / a film by Susan Edwards and Dorie Clark.
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2010].
"In the 1960s, the Nashua River in New Hampshire and central Massachusetts was one of the 10 most polluted in the country, clogged with multicolored, toxic sludge from nearby paper mills. Around that time, housewife Marion Stoddart moved to the area with her family, so close to the river they could smell its noxious fumes. At a low point in her life, she decided to fight her own emptiness by taking on the biggest challenge she could find - cleaning up the Nashua. Her dramatic success in mobilizing the community showed people that change was possible, even though they'd lost hope. Marion's efforts helped get the Massachusetts Clean Rivers Act passed so that companies weren't allowed to pollute rivers like the Nashua anymore. In the process, she won a United Nations award, was profiled in National Geographic, and had a widely-read children's book written about her. Her secret? An ordinary person can do extraordinary things when they refuse to give up."--DER website.
GE56.S763 M3 2010.
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Trobriand cricket [videorecording] : an ingenious response to colonialism / director and anthropologist, Jerry W. Leach ; film-maker, Gary Kildea ; produced by Office of Information, Government of Papua New Guinea.
[Berkeley, CA] : Berkeley Media, [2004?].
Shows how the Trobriand Islanders have transformed the British game of cricket over the last seventy years into a unique Trobriand sport and a colorful ritual expressing their own cultural values.
GV928.P26 T76 1976C.
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Playing unfair [videorecording] : the media image of the female athlete / Media Education Foundation ; executive producer, Loretta Alper ; co-producer, Kenyon King ; executive director, Sut Jhally.
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2002.
It has been 30 years since Title IX legislation granted women equal playing time, but the male-dominated world of sports journalism has yet to catch up with the law. Coverage of women's sports lags far behind men's and focuses on female athletes' femininity and sexuality over their achievements on the court and field.
GV709 .P55 2002.
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Century of the self [videorecording].
United States : BigD Productions [distributor, 2006].
Four programs describing the psycho/social issues affecting 20th century consumerism against the backdrop of the development of Freudian psychology.
HC79.C6 C46 2002B.
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The Mayfair set [videorecording] / Adam Curtis.
[S.l.] : [s.n.], [20--?].
The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of London's Clermont Club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.
HC256.6 .C87 1999B.
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Smokin' [videorecording] : classic cigarette commercials.
Sherman Oaks, CA : Smore Entertainment, c2011.
There was a time when cigarette smoking was considered healthy, endorsed by doctors, an accepted social occurrence and cigarette commercials were everywhere. This compilation of classic commercials from the 50's and 60's covers all the bases ... doctor endorsements, comedy, social events and smoking in the workplace. The commercials provide cautionary insights into how people will buy into anything and how pervasive peer pressure can be.
HF6161.T6 S66 2011.
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Killing us softly 3 [videorecording] : advertising's image of women / producer [&] director, Sut Jhally.
Northampton, Mass. : Media Education Foundation, 2002.
Social theorist Jean Kilbourne lectures on the portrayal of women in advertising, arguing that the artificial & stereotypical representations therein negatively effect women's psychological health.
HF5822 .K55 2000B.
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Surviving progress [videorecording] / Cinemaginaire and Big Picture Media Corp. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada present ; director, Mathieu Roy ; co-director Harold Crooks.
[New York] : First Run Features, [2012].
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, 'Surviving Progress' is a provocative documentary that explores the concept of progress in the modern world, guiding through the major 'progress traps' facing civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.
HM891 .S87 2011B.
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The trap [videorecording] : what happened to our dream of freedom? / an Adam Curtis film.
[London : BBC, 2007].
Explores how the idea of freedom has been influenced by cold war strategy, psychiatry, political ideology, free market ideas and target strategies in public services, and responses to terrorism to result in social management, inequality, surveillance of citizens, and bloody wars.
HM1266 .T73 2007.
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Facebook follies [videorecording].
[Halifax, Nova Scotia] : Tell Tale Productions; distributed by Video Project, 2012.
Facebook Follies is a one-hour documentary that takes a look at the unexpected consequences of people sharing their personal information on social media. Viewers meet people who lost their jobs, their marriages, their dignity, or who even ended up in jail - all because of their own or someone else's Facebook posting. To give a broader context to the events, these stories are intercut with reflections from experts in the areas of social change, internet security and contemporary media.
HM743.F33 F33 2011B.
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Still doing it [videorecording] : the intimate lives of women over 65 / director, Deirdre Fishel ; producers, Deirdre Fishel, Diana Holtzberg ; produced in association with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, TV2 Denmark.
[Harriman, NY] : New Day Films, c2004.
Explores the lives of nine women aged 67-87 and their feelings about sex and love in later life and the realities of aging.
HQ29 .S75 2004B.
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Half the sky [videorecording] : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide / Show of Force, LLC ; director, Maro Chermayeff ; producer, Joshua Bennett.
[United States] : Docurama Films, 2012.
Take an unforgettable journey with six actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Kristof to meet some of the most courageous individuals of our time, who are doing extraordinary work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of heartbreaking challenge, dramatic transformation and enduring hope.
HQ1236.5.D44 K75 2012.
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The films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume 1 [videorecording] / Milestone Film & Video.
[United States] : Milestone Film & Video : Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories, [2012].
On the Bowery chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer which jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination. NOTE = Good times, Wonderful times was Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism, includes collected archive footage of war atrocities interspersed with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chat. NOTE = Out is a documentary Rogosin made for the United nations telling the plight of Hungarian refugees fleeing to Austria in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolutioon of 1956.
HV5050 .F55 2012X.
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Gerrymandering [videorecording] / Green Film Company ; produced by Dan O'Meara, Chris Romano ; written, produced and directed by Jeff Reichert.
[United States] : Passion River Films, c2012.
Every decade, the major political parties gear up for a cartographic war that determines who gets to control Congress for the next ten years, and possibly more. It is the ultimate political weapon: the ability to directly determine the outcomes of elections. This practice, gerrymandering, is perfectly legal. Gerrymandering exposes the most effective form of manipulating elections short of outright fraud.
JK1341 .G47 2012.
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Preschool in three cultures [videorecording] / Fourth Wave Productions.
Durham, N.H. : J.J. Tobin, c1989.
As the number of mothers in the workforce grows and parents feel increased pressure to give their children an educational head start, industrialized societies are turning to preschools to nurture, educate, and socialize young children. Presents a unique comparison of the practices and philosophies of Japanese, Chinese, and American preschools and discusses how changes in child care both reflect and affect larger social change. Shows a typical day in preschool in each country, and brings up such issues as freedom, conformity, creativity, coooperation, and discipline.
LB1140.25.J3 T632 1989B.
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Speaking in tongues [videorecording] = Hablando en lenguas = Yi kou shuang yu / A co-production of PatchWorks Productions & the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the Center for Asian American Media and Latino Public Broadcasting ; a film by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider ; produced and directed by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider. TITLE = Speaking in tongues [videorecording] = Hablando en lenguas = {213021}{21352c}{275f4e}{27586c} / A co-production of PatchWorks Productions & the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the Center for Asian American Media and Latino Public Broadcasting ; a film by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider ; produced and directed by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider.
[San Francisco, Calif.] : PatchWorks Productions, c2010.
"Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling. Two children are placed in immersion programs to retain their native tongues while learning English, and the other two are in the reverse situation. Their parents list both familiar and surprising reasons for enrolling their children, but each remains a strong proponent of the programs despite criticism from extended family, friends and a loud chorus of English-only activists. Even while dismissing common barbs, the families must confront unique challenges both humorous and serious"--PatchWorks Films website.
LC3733.S36 S64 2009B.
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Downside up [videorecording] / ITVS Independent Television Service presents ; written, produced, and directed by Nancy Kelly ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary ; produced in association with ITVS ; co-produced by WMHT Schenectady and the Banff Centre for the Arts ; produced by TPOG Inc.
[Mill Valley, CA] : TPOG, Inc. ; Harriman, NY : Distributed by New Day Films, c2002.
This film is about America's largest museum of contemporary art, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), which opened in 1999 in an enormous abandoned factory in the film maker's hometown, North Adams, Massachusetts. This first person documentary captures the struggle of the people of North Adams in their redefinition of their community and puzzling with their role in an alien form of expression: contemporary art. Told primarily through the eyes of the filmmaker and her family, most of whom worked in the factory before it closed, the film charts the subtle changes in the spirit of a region from the intimate view of the kitchen table. It is about hope--the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a town that was widely viewed as hopeless.
N627.85 .D69 2002B.
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Moonrise kingdom [videorecording] / Focus Features and Indian Paintbrush present ; an American Empirical picture ; produced by Wes Anderson ... [et al.] ; written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola ; directed by Wes Anderson.
Culver City, CA : Focus Features, c2012.
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
PN1997.2 .M667 2012.
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The forgiveness of blood [videorecording] / director, Joshua Marston ; producer Paul Mezey ; written by Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2012.
In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.
PN1997.2 .F6735 2011.
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Elena [videorecording] / a film by Andrey Zvyagintsev. [Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov, producers ; screenplay by Oleg Negin and Andrey Zvyagintsev ; featured music by Philip Glass]. TITLE = .
[United States] : Zeitgeist Films, p2011, c2012.
The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time together strengthens their usually distant relationship. Upon leaving the hospital, Vladimir declares that he's decided to change his will so that his daughter will receive all his money, leaving Elena with only a meager annuity. This will make it impossible for Elena to help her son financially. Humble and obedient, Elena then resorts to a desperate step. NOTE = A gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment. He's a still- virile, wealthy businessman, and she's his dowdy former nurse who has clearly 'married up.' When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten the dutiful housewife's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan.
PN1997.2 .E43 2011B.
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The man in grey [videorecording] / produced by Edward Black ; screenplay by Margaret Kennedy, Leslie Arliss ; directed by Leslie Arliss.
[United States] : Criterion Collection, c2012.
This tail of treachery put both the Gainsborough melodrama and actor James Mason on the map. The star-to-be plays Lord Rohan, a cruel nobleman who marries the naive and sweet-natured Clarissa for the sole purpose of producing an heir; meanwhile, Clarissa's conniving best friend, Hesther, plots against her for her own nefarious ends.
PN1997 .M355 1943B.
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Berlin express [videorecording] / an RKO Radio picture ; RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play by Harold Medford ; story by Curt Siodmak ; produced by Bert Granet ; directed by Jacques Tourneur.
[Calif.] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2010.
Filmed amid the actual bombed out ruins of Frankfurt and Berlin after World War II, this film recounts the dangerous attempts to unify Germany as four post-war heroes from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. battle die-hard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman.
PN1997 .B47 2009.
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The good girl [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Myriad Pictures present in association with In-Motion AG, WMF V, and Hungry Eye Lowland Pictures, a Flan de Coco film ; producer, Matthew Greenfield ; writer, Mike White ; director, Miguel Arteta.
[United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.
Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job. But when a passionate young co- worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
PN1997.2 .G6625 2002.
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Beloved [videorecording] / directed by Jonathan Demme ; screenplay by Akosua Busia ... [et al.] ; produced by Edward Saxon ... [et al.] ; Touchstone Pictures ; a Harpo Films/Clinica Estetico production.
Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video, [1999?].
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
PN1997 .B45 1999.
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The devil, probably [videorecording] = Le diable probablement / Gaumont presents a Stephane Tchalgadijief production ; producer Stephanie Tchalgadjief, Daniel Tuscon du Plantier ; writer/director Robert Bresson ; Sunchild Productions.
[United States] : Olive Films, 2012.
Charles is a womanizing ringleader of the group, haunted by an overwhelming sense of nihilism that finally envelops him. He drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realizes the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option.
PN1997 .D495 2012.
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Mad men. Season 4. TITLE = Mad men. Season five [videorecording] / Lions Gate Television ; directors, Phil Abraham ... [et al.] ; producers, Matthew Weiner ... [et al.].
[United States] : Lionsgate, [2012].
The people associated with the advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce adapt to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world.
PN1992.77 .M33 2012.
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Shichinin no samurai [videorecording] = Seven samurai / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa. TITLE = {213023}{213064}{69244e}{213148}.
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006.
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
PN1997 .S533 1954D.
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Crooked arrows [videorecording].
[United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2012.
Former star lacrosse player Joe Logan agrees to coach a rag-tag team of Native American lacrosse players who are long-time losers, despite lacrosse being a part of their tribal heritage for centuries.
PN1997.2 .C76 2012.
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Lumumba [videorecording] / Jacques Bidou présente ; une production, JBA Production ... [et al.] ; scénario, Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer ; produit par Jacques Bidou ; un film de Raoul Peck.
[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, 2002.
Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated.
PN1997 .L848 2002.
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Game (Motion picture : 1997). TITLE = The game [videorecording] / PolyGram Films ; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents a Propaganda Films production ; directed by David Fincher ; written by John Brancato & Michael Ferris ; produced by Steve Golin and Ceán Chaffin.
New York, NY : Universal : Focus, Criterion Collection, c2012, 1997.
"In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in "The Game"--"a profound life experience" with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life.
PN1997 .G36 2012.
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Small island [videorecording] / a Ruby Television production in association with AL Films for BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston ; screenplay by Paula Milne and Sarah Williams ; produced by Joanna Anderson, Vicky Licorish, and Grainne Marmion ; directed by John Alexander.
[United States] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2010.
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
PN1997.2 .S53 2010.
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Trishna [videorecording] / IFC Films ; director, Michael Winterbottom.
[United States] : MPI Home Video, [2012].
Based on the classic novel Tess of the D'Ubervilles. Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan and works in a resort to help pay the family bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When Jay takes up managing resorts, he meets Trishna and wins her affection. They move to Mumbai, but problems arise when his deep family bond threatens their bliss.
PN1997.2 .T75 2012.
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Edward II [videorecording] / 2 entertain ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; directed by Richard Marquand and Toby Robertson ; written by Christopher Marlowe ; produced by Mark Shivas.
[London?] : BBC Video : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, [2009].
Edward II is a flawed ruler, his reign marred by civil strife and rebellion, but it is his love life, and not his inept leadership, that ultimately turns the nobles against the king.
PN1992.77 .E39 2009.
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Ruby Sparks [videorecording] : she's out of his mind / directors, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris ; writer, Zoe Kazan.
[United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2012].
Struggling with writer's block and a lackluster love life, once-famous novelist Calvin creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby who inspires him. But not only does this bring his work to life, it also brings Ruby to life, literally. Face-to-face with an actual relationship with his once virtual girlfriend, Calvin must now decide whether to pen this love story or let it write itself.
PN1997.2 .R83 2012.
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Spider-Man 3 (Motion picture). TITLE = Spider-Man 3 [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Marvel Studios/Laura Ziskin production ; produced by Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, Grant Curtis ; screen story by Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi ; screenplay by Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent ; directed by Sam Raimi.
Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures Industries : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.
Peter Parker is finally happy: he is doing well at the school, girlfriend MJ Watson loves him, and the whole city loves Spider-Man, finally bestowing upon him the praise he so rightly deserves. But peace may not be possible for a superhero. Harry Osborn has taken up his late father's mantle--becoming The New Goblin, bent on revenge. Uncle Ben's real killer, Flint Marko, has been transformed into the Sandman. An alien symbiote has attached itself to the Spider suit, turning it black, enhancing its powers, and warping Peter's personality. When Peter finally overcomes the contaminated suit, it infects rival Bugle photographer Eddie Brock, who becomes villain Venom. In this battle, Peter must conquer his personal darkness as well as Spider-Mans foes, free the compassionate hero within, and trade teenage self-absorption for adulthood.
PN1995.9.S76 S65347636 2007.
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Birdsong [videorecording] / a WTTV Working Title Television/Masterpiece co-production with NBC Universal for the BBC ; producer, Lynn Horsford ; screenplay by Abi Morgan ; director, Philip Martin.
[United States] : PBS, 2012.
Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all- consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings for Isabelle.
PN1992.77 .B54 2012.
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Rosemary's baby [videorecording] / director, Roman Polanski.
[United States] : Image Entertainment, [2012].
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays a young mother- to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby.
PN1997 .R67 2012.
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Spider-Man 2 (Motion picture). TITLE = Spider-man 2 [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Marvel Enterprises/Laura Ziskin production ; produced by Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad ; screen story by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and Michael Chabon ; screenplay by Alvin Sargent ; directed by Sam Raimi.
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2004.
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent, or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry and his beloved Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever. Peter begins to notice that he's losing some of his powers and wonders if the cost of being a superhero isn't too high. Meanwhile Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, has turned into a maniacal cyborg after a failed science experiment. Peter realizes he must decide between the ordinary life he so desires and the responsibilities of retaining his secret identity to stop "Doc Ock" and save New York City from destruction.
PN1997.2 .S65347 2004.
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The amazing Spider-man [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Industries ; Marvel Entertainment ; producers, Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach ; writers, James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, Steve Kloves ; director, Marc Webb.
[United States] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012].
Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.
PN1997.2 .A43 2012.
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Something's gonna live [videorecording] / Adama Films ; written and directed by Daniel Raim ; produced by Jennifer Raim, Daniel Raim, Gerald Chamales.
[New York] : Docuramafilms : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, [2012].
An intimate portrait of life, death, friendship and the movies, as recalled by some of Hollywood's greatest cinema artists: renowned art directors (and pals) Robert Boyle (North by Northwest, The Birds), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting) and Albert Nozaki (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), storyboard artist Harold Michelson (The Graduate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and master cinematographers Haskell Wexler (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medium Cool) and Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).
PN1993.5.U65 S66 2012.
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Philippe Garrel x 2 [videorecording] : I can no longer hear the guitar ; Emergency kisses.
[New York, N.Y.] : Zeitgeist Films, [2009].
I can no longer hear the guitar "is Garrel's haunting tribute to his ten- year relationship with the iconic German chanteuse Nico. Johanna ter Steege plays Marianne, the doomed lover of Gérard (Benoît Régent). Caught in a self-destructive heroin haze, they drift together and apart as Gérard struggles with his simultaneous desire for and repulsion towards a stable life"--Container. NOTE = In Emergency kisses "the entire Garrel clan steps in front of the camera as versions of themselves. When a philandering film director refuses to cast his stage actress wife in a role largely based on her, the couple begins to wrestle with their conflicting philosophies on art and life"--Container.
PN1997.A1 G375 2009.
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Even the rain [videorecording] / director, Iciar Bollain ; writer, Paul Laverty.
[United States] : Image Entertainment, 2012.
Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian and his cynical producer Costa arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the year 2000.
PN1997.2 .E94 2012.
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La Princesse de Clèves [videorecording] / un film de Jean Delannoy ; adaptation, Jean Cocteau ; une co-production franco-italienne, Cinetel, Silver Films, Produzioni Cinematografiche "Mediterranee", Enalpa Film.
[France] : Studio Canal, c2010.
Married to a man much older than she, the young Princess of Clèves tries to resist the passion of the Duke of Nemours.
PQ1805.L5 A73 1960B.
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Madonna of the seven moons [videorecording] / produced by R.J. Minney ; screenplay by Roland Pertwee ; director, Arthur Crabtree.
[United States] : Criterion Collection, c2012.
A lurid tale of sex and psychosis is among the wildest of the Gainsborough melodramas. Set in Italy, it begins as a comparatively sedate tale about a respectable, convent-raises woman who is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager. But when her grown daughter returns from school, her life begins to unravel in monumentally surprising ways.
PR6023.A935 M372 1945.
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Doctor Faustus [videorecording] / by Christopher Marlowe.
London : Stage on Screen, c2009.
A scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power, knowledge, and the freedom to do as he wishes.
PR2664 .A3 2009C.
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Turn of the screw [videorecording] / United Productions and WGBH/Boston co-production in association with Martin Pope Productions ; Meridian Broadcasting Ltd. ; produced by Martin Pope ; screenplay by Nick Dear ; directed by Ben Bolt.
[United States] : WGBH Boston Video, 2004.
Henry James' chilling ghost tale about a governess hired by a charming bachelor to look after two young children in a grand mansion in rural England where sinister events place their lives in jeopardy.
PS2116 .T8 2004.
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The wicked lady [videorecording] / produced by R.J. Minney ; screenplay by Leslie Arliss ; director, Leslie Arliss.
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2012.
Margaret Lockwood devours the screen as a tightly wound seventeenth- century beauty with loose morals, who steals her best friend's wealthy fiance on the eve of their wedding. And that's only the beginning; there are no depths to which this sinful woman won't sink. James Mason costars as a highwayman with whom our anti-heroine becomes entangled.
PZ3.K5927 LI2 1945B.
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All watched over by machines of loving grace [videorecording] / BBC Productions ; producer, Lucy Kelsall ; written and directed by Adam Curtis.
[S.l. : s.n.], 2011.
Love and power: Traces the influence of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets and the technology industry. NOTE = The abuse of vegetational concepts: Investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, leading to the false idea that there is a balance of nature, and to human beings, in attempts to build societies without central control. NOTE = The monkey in the machine and the machine in the monkey: Looks at the selfish gene theory and ideas of social evolution and how they may have influenced ideas of racism and colonialism, especially in the Belgian Congo.
QA76.9.C66 A45 2011B.
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The Great Barrier Reef [videorecording] / an official UK/Australian co- production, a BBC/Discovery Channel/Digital Dimensions co-production in association with the Nine Network Australia.
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After Darwin [videorecording] / Galafilm/PTV presents a film by Martin Lavut ; producer, Arnie Gelbart ; writer/director, Martin Lavut ; produced by Galafilms Inc. and PTV Productions Inc.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003.
Traces the history of genomic research and its dark offspring: behavioral genetics, eugenics, and the commodification of children. Spotlighting topics including the Human Genome Project, gene patenting, cloning, fertility clinics, genetic testing, and the discriminatory practices of insurance companies.
QH431 .A35 1999B.
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Flight school [videorecording] / a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and the BBC ; produced by Jo Sarsby ; directors, Tom Hugh-Jones and Emma Rolfe.
[New York, NY] : Thirteen/WNET, c2004.
Follows the ten whooping crane chicks of Operation Migration. Hatched in an artificial breeding program and raised by humans disguised as cranes, they are trained to follow an ultra-light aircraft as they would a flock leader and set off on their first migration to Florida.
QL696.G84 F58 2003B.
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Pink Ribbons, Inc. [videorecording] / The National Film Board of Canada ; produced by Ravida Din ; directed by Léa Pool ; written by Patricia Kearns & Nancy Guerin and Léa Pool.
[United States] : First Run Features, [2012].
Based on the book by Samantha King, makes connections between the symbol of breast cancer awareness and the corporate entities that sustain and engineer the priorities and cross-marketing of the cause.
RC280.B8 P56 2011B.
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The truth about cancer [videorecording] / a Carousel Films LLC production for WGBH Boston ; writer/producer/director, Linda Garmon.
[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, c2008.
This documentary seeks to answer the question, why does anyone still die of cancer? Filmmaker Linda Garmon shares the personal story of her own husband's battle with cancer and seeks to tell us where we stand in fighting this decades- old war. Following the film is the panel discussion, Take one step : a conversation about cancer with Linda Ellerbee, featuring cancer survivors Dr. Ernie Bodai, Dr. Bernadine Healy, Dr. Paul Brenner, and Dr. Richard Payne. Features bonus footage of panel discussion, printable resources, and Web site link.
RC261 .T78 2008.
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