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New Acquisitions - January 2006
- Ammo for the info-warrior 2002
- A collection of nine news videos created by Guerilla News Network (GNN), an independent news organization devoted to exposing young people to global news and information. The videos cover a range of stories, from the diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the public relations industry practices to spoken word poetry about the business of hip-hop.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7198
- The apartment 2001
- An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
- 1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.)
- MEDIA 10-503
- Barfly 1987
- Henry and Wanda are wedded to their bar stools, not each other, but they like each other and attempt to make a go of life on the skids.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7192
- Before the rain a tale in three parts 1995
- Hi-fi Dolby surround stereo., digitally mastered. In a monastery in Macedonia, a young man must abandon his vows of silence to save a girl from a hate-filled mob. In London, a woman torn between a loveless marriage and a passionate affair with a war photographer finds fate dictates a choice she couldn't make on her own. And in Yugoslavia, the photographer returns to a nation divided by religious hatred and violence. His efforts to salvage some small portion of peace will have and impact no one could foresee, and bring all three stories full circle.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 112 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7200
- Beyond good & evil children, media and violent times 2003
- "This video examines how the "good and evil" rhetoric, in both the entertainment and the news media, has helped children to dehumanize the enemies, justify their killing and treat the suffering of innocent civilians as necessary sacrifice"--Container.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 37 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7194
- Beyond the frame alternative perspectives on the war on terrorism 2004
- In twenty-three interviews, using a question and answ er format, experts from academia, the media, government, and non-governmental organizations, place the causes leading to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in historical context. Issues surrounding the War on Terrorism are also discussed.
- 1 videodisc (146 min.)
- MEDIA 10-502
- Class dismissed how TV frames the working class 2005
- From television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas and daytime talk shows, this video explores the way race, gender and sexuality play a part in the negative cultural attitudes and public policies that affect the lives of working class people.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 62 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7193
- Constructing public opinion how politicians and the media misrepresent the public 2001
- The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used by media to not just reflect what Americans think but instead to construct public opinion itself.
- 1 videocassette (32 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7195
- Cristo si è fermato a Eboli Christ stopped at Eboli 2003
- Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.
- 1 videodisc (145 min.)
- MEDIA 10-506
- The fortune cookie 2001
- A TV cameraman, trampled by a half-back while shooting a football game, and his shyster brother-in-law team up to defraud an insurance company in a million dollar law suit.
- 1 videodisc (126 min.)
- MEDIA 10-507
- Hijacking catastrophe 9/11, fear & the selling of American empire 2004
- This film discusses how the events of 9/11/2001 have influenced United States politics, from advancing a pre-existing military agenda to rolling back civil liberties and social programs.
- 1 videocassette (64 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7196
- Independent media in a time of war 2003
- Journalist Amy Goodman criticizes the promilitary bias of the corporate news media, whose reportage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq downplays or ignores the impact on civilians while overstating the success of U.S. military operations.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7197
- Kiss me, stupid 2003
- Two would be songwriters hijack Dino as he passes through their town. Their attempts to charm him into listening to their songs encounter a problem when one man's wife is the head of Martin's fan club. A substitute is hired to claim his attentions. Things do not exactly work out as planned.
- 1 videodisc (125 min.)
- MEDIA 10-509
- L.A. confidential 1998
- Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist and the Chief of Detectives work against the backdrop of the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950's. Using differing methods they seek to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner. A lush tribute to tough film-noir crime films.
- 1 videocassette (138 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7190
- Padre padrone 1998
- Gavino Ledda (Marconi) recounts his domination by his oppressive father (Antonutti) when growing up. He is forced to live in solitude as an illiterate Sardinian shepherd, separated from family, schools, and his town. Finally he rebels against his father and his own illiteracy.
- 1 videodisc (117 min.)
- MEDIA 10-512
- Passing the bug the end of antibiotics? 1998
- This program examines the link between the use of antibiotics in livestock as growth promoters and the rise of resistance to their effectiveness in humans.
- 1 videocassette (27 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7185
- The private life of Sherlock Holmes 2004
- Holmes travels to Scotland to help a woman search for her missing husband.
- 1 videodisc (120 min.)
- MEDIA 10-511
- Quills 2001
- History's most infamous sexual adventurer lives in a madhouse, where a beautiful laundry maid helps him smuggle his erotic stories to the printer.
- 1 videocassette (124 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7191
- Salvatore Giuliano 2004
- A documentary-style drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily.
- 2 videodiscs (123 min.)
- MEDIA 10-504
- The Sicilian 2001?
- Biography of Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit who became a folk hero during the years after WWII.
- 1 videodisc (148 min.)
- MEDIA 10-508
- Some like it hot 2001
- Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
- 1 videodisc (122 min.)
- MEDIA 10-510
- Stolen childhoods 2004
- A feature length documentary on child labor. Filmed in seven countries: Brazil, India, the United States, Mexico, Indonesia, Kenya and Nepal, stolen childhoods examines the cost of child labor to the global community, probes the causes of this complex phenomenon and recommends actions that can be taken to eliminate this human rights violation in our lifetime.
- 1 videocassette (1 hr, 26 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7202
- Veronica Guerin 2004
- A true story of a journalist who risked everything in search of the truth.
- 1 videocassette (ca. 98 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7201
- Witness for the prosecution 2001
- A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
- 1 videodisc (106 min.)
- MEDIA 10-505
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