Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu

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New Acquisitions - September 2006

Adio kerida Goodbye dear love 2002

Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba to profile the island's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them.

1 videocassette (82 min.)

MEDIA 2-7533

Asante market women 2005

An examination of the life-style of the Asante women of Ghana in the Kumani.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7524

Battered hearts 2005

Examines the spectrum of domestic violence, including both the physical and emotional assaults which may be used by the batterer to intimidate and control family members. Survivors of abuse discuss the feelings that result, and men who abuse talk about their own frustration, need for power, and in many cases the abuse they suffered themselves earlier in life.

1 videodisc (27 min.)

MEDIA 10-662

Bent Keltoum Keltoum's daughter 2005?

Rallia, a young woman raised in Switzerland, travels to a barren Berber settlement in search of the family that gave her up for adoption shortly after her birth. Only her grandfather and aunt remain in the village, and she is told that her mother will soon arrive. When her mother does not got off the bus, Rallia leaves with her aunt on a road trip to the city. Through Rallia's eyes we see both the proud culture that calls itself Amazigh (the free men) and the everyday lives of women in Algeria.

1 videocassette (88 min.)

MEDIA 2-7541

Betelnut bisnis a story from Papua New Guinea /cFilm Finance Corporation Australia Limited presents a Filmcraft Pacific Production ; produced in association with SBS, the National Film Institute of PNG and Ronin Films ; written and directed by Chris Owen ; produced by Andrew Pike 2004

The betelnut has been a socially accepted narcotic in coastal Papua New Guinea since ancestral times but in the Highlands, where a majority of the population lives, it is a recent arrival. Many Highlanders depend on the betelnut not only because of their addiction to it, but because many families earn their livelihood trading small quantities of the drug. This is the story of one such family in the Highlands.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7520

Between midnight and the rooster's crow 2005

Documents the environmental and social impact the EnCana corporation has had on the country of Ecuador. Also looks at the relationship between EnCana and the government of Eduador.

1 videocassette (66 min.)

MEDIA 2-7543

Big bucks, big pharma marketing disease & pushing drugs 2006

Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Puts focus on the industry's marketing practices. Challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being.

1 videocassette (46 min.)

MEDIA 2-7536

Bombay, our city 1985

Four million people live in the slums of Bombay without water, sanitation or electricity and they face eviction as the city tries to "beautify" Bombay.

1 videocassette (82 min.)

MEDIA 2-7529

Citizen Bishara 2002?

Begins with the final weeks of Binyamin Netanyahu's "reign" and ends with Ariel Sharon's electoral victory. Azmi Bishara was the first Palestinian citizen to make a bid for the post of Israeli prime minister in 1999 and at the 2001 elections; he was the main force in the call for boycott that was followed by 85% of Israel's Arab voters. A sociologist by training, he fights for the equality of Israel's Palestinian citizens and their recognition as a national minority. Shows him in his parliamentary work, his election campaign and records his thoughts on citizenship, national minorities and democracy.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7544

Clara Lemlich a strike leader's diary 2004

"On November 22, 1909, New York City garment workers gathered at Cooper Union to discuss pay cuts, unsafe working conditions and other grievances. After two hours of indecisive speeches by male union leaders, a young Jewish woman strode down the aisle and demanded the floor. Speaking in Yiddish, she passionately urged her coworkers to go out on strike. Clara Lemlich, a flegling union organizer, thus launched the "Uprising of the 20,000," when, two days later, garment workers walked out of shops all over the city."--Container.

1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-7539

The clitoris forbidden pleasure 2003

Explores female sexuality by focusing on the clitoris.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7545

Crash 2006

A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America when a car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles.

2 videodiscs (115 min.)

MEDIA 10-665

Dervishes of Kurdistan 1987

Describes the rituals and beliefs of the Qadiri Dervishes, Kurds who live along the boarder between Iran and Iraq. Explores the intertwining of religious and political power in the culture.

1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7519

The dreamers of Arnhem Land 2005

This documentary shows how Stuart and Valerie Ankin, two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction, harvested and marketed medicines, plants and seeds fruit juices and other organic products, as well as crocodile eggs and baby turtles, which led to an economic revitalization of the North Coast that encouraged many Aborigines to return to their ancestral lands.

1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

MEDIA 2-7526

The earthling 1995

Aloner, returning to his native Australia is thrown together with a recently orphaned city-boy. Forced to fend together for survival, a special magic grows between them.

1 videocassette (96 min.)

MEDIA 2-7535

Emily's eyes 1998

Describes the experience of a Chinese couple in Australia as they deal with the disabilities of their first child, Emily, who was born with hydrocephalous, profound deafness, and blindness in one eye.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7528

Fishing in the sea of greed 1998

Documents the response of traditional fishing communities and rice farmers to the threat of displacement by overfishing and pollution resulting from industrial fishing practices such as use of gigantic factory ships.

1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-7540

Fistful of dollars 1999

A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang.

1 videocassette (ca. 1 hr., 40 min.)

MEDIA 2-7510

Hansel Mieth vagabond photographer 2003

One of the great social documentarians of the 20th century, Hansel Mieth captured the plight of the poor and the oppressed. Only the second woman to join LIFE mnagazine's staff, she quickly became one of its most prolific photographers.

1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-7530

Khamosh pani Silent waters 2004

It is 1979 and Pakistan is embracing nationalism through its Islamic identity. Widowed Ayesha lives in Charkhi, Punjab with her son Saleem, who joins a group of fundamentalists. When a group of Sikh pilgrims come to town, the family's faith comes into question .

1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-661

The laughing club of India 2002?

Five years ago in Bombay, Dr. Madan Kataria decided to find out whether or not "laughter is the best medicine." He gathered together a group of patients and neighbors to meet daily to laugh. After a time, Dr. Kataria found that the participants experienced improved health and decreased levels of stress. Thus was born across India the phenomenon of laughing clubs. Since then, clubs have spread to Europe and to the United States.

1 videocassette (35 min.)

MEDIA 2-7508

The learning classroom theory into practice 2003

Session 1: This program introduces the main themes of the course. Session 2: This program examines the concept of readiness for learning and illustrates how developmental pathways all play a part in students b2 s learning. Session 3: This program covers how prior knowledge, expectations, context, and practice affect processing and using information and making connections. Session 4: This program describes how people have learning skills that differ in significant ways. Session 5: This program introduces ways to create an emotionally safe classroom to foster learning and to deal effectively with emotions and conflicts that can be obstacles. Session 6: This program discusses how culturally responsive teaching enables students to create connections, access prior knowledge and experience, and develop competence. Session 7: This program explores how learning relies on communication and interaction with others as communities of learners. Session 8: This program demonstrates how teachers help their students develop expertise and accomplish complex tasks. Session 9: This program explores how thinking about thinking helps students better manage their own learning and learn difficult concepts deeply. Session 10: This program covers the ways in which the organization of knowledge and understanding can influence learning. Session 11: This program describes what conditions are needed for knowledge and skills learned in one context to be retrieved and applied to a novel situation, and how different teaching strategies can increase the possibilities for transfer. Session 12: This program takes a second look at classrooms seen previously to show how motivational techniques work in concert with other learning theories. Session 13: This program discusses how schools can organize for powerful learning through a coherent, connected approach to teaching and learning that is reinforced and supported by structural features.

13 videocassettes (30 min. each)

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The legacy of unresolved loss a family systems approach 1996

In this realistic simulation of an 18-week course of therapy with the Rogers family, we see how the presenting problem--teenage daughter Michelle's rebellious behavior--masks unresolved loss across three generations of family members. Despite the father's initial resistance to explore the death of the children's mother, McGoldrick links this loss with the family's current struggles, and assists them in the delayed grieving.

1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-667

La macchina ammazzacattivi The machine to kill bad people = The camera that kills bad guys 1996

Comedy about a small-town photographer whose camera becomes a killing device to kill bad people. The photographer becomes increasingly enraged as he encounters evil everywhere.

1 videocassette (84 min.)

MEDIA 2-7534

The making of rocky road to Dublin 2004

Discusses the making of the film, Rocky road to Dublin, and its reception at the Cannes festival and afterwards in Ireland and elsewhere. Includes interviews with Peter Lennon, who made the film, and Raoul Coutard, who did the photography.

1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-7547

Manifesto 1995

Set in the 1920's, this anarchic dark comedy depicts a small Balkan community that's a hotbed of assassination plots, sexual freedom, and repressive ideas--L. Maltin.

1 videocassette (ca. 97 min.)

MEDIA 2-7506

Mathematics assessment a video library, K-12 1997

Designed to be used as pre-service or in-service sessions. Provides visual examples of standards-based teaching and learning for K through 12. Gives teachers, administrators, parents, and policy makers a look at the changes in mathematics instruction.

5 videocassettes (210 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 2-7511- 2-7515

Mimi metallurgico ferito nellónore Mimi the metalworker 1997

Mimi, a Sicilan laborer, refuses to vote for the Mafia's candidate ; consequently he loses his job, his wife, and his home. His efforts to defend his honor produce complex comical results.

1 videocassette (89 min.)

MEDIA 2-7517

My America, or, Honk if you love Buddha 1996

Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña goes on the road, à la Jack Kerouac, to record the voices and personalities of Asian Americans everywhere from Chinatown, New York to a debutante ball in Anaheim, California. She compares her childhood to the current ethnic climate of America and chronicles as well the spectacular adventures of her fellow traveler, Victor Wong, son of a San Francisco Chinatown mayor, who went on to become a Beat painter, photojournalist, and character actor.

1 videocassette (87 min.)

MEDIA 2-7507

A Narmada diary 1995

A Narmada diary documents five years in the life of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the Save Narmada Movement) which has spearheaded the agitation against the dam. In a situation where government resettlement and rehabilitation programs have proved inadequate and inappropriate.

1 videocassette (60 minutes)

MEDIA 2-7537

Pop lyrics 2001

"This program studies the evolution of pop music within the context of the youth-oriented issues of the past five decades."--Container.

1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-7516

Prisoners of conscience 200

An early film by India's leading documentary filmmaker, Anand Patwardhan that presents the human rights situation in India during the State of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975 to March 1977.

1 videocassette (41 min.)

MEDIA 2-7527

Prostitution behind the veil 2005

Explores the everyday life of two Iranian women working as prostitutes in a Muslim society in which prostitution is banned and adultery can lead to capital punishment. Reveals double standards, their male punters managing to comply with Muslim law while buying sex.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7525

Rocky road to Dublin 2004

Portrait of Ireland in the 1960s, a society characterized by a stultifying educational system, a repressive and morally reactionary clergy, and a myopic cultural nationalism.

1 videocassette (69 min.)

MEDIA 2-7548

The scarlet empress 2001

Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.

1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-666

Schiism awaiting the Hidden Imam 2005

This documentary film discusses the history of Shi'ism, its origins, mythology of martyrdom, the centuries of persecution and discrimination of Shi'ism as a minority faith, and its basic tenets including the belief in the twelfth, or 'hidden' Imam, who will appear on the Last Day as the Mahdi. Filmed in Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq, this film interweaves contemporary and historical footage, and introduces Muslim scholars, philosophers, writers, politicians and religious leaders discussing a wide range of issues.

1 videocassette (53 min.)

MEDIA 2-7538

Sex, lies and secrecy dissecting hysterectomy 2004

Some medical experts claim that a shocking 98% of hysterectomies are unnecessary. Yet, half the women in North America will have had their ovaries removed by the time they are 65.

1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-7522

Sex slaves [videorecording] / an Associated Producers Ltd. film ; produced in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE, Channel 4, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Canal D ; producers, Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici ; writer/director, Ric Esther Bienstock Explores the multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking. Goes to the villages of Ukraine and Moldova, where girls are lured and then sold and forced into prostitution in brothels and discotheques all over Europe. Follows Viorel, a Ukrainian man, on a mission to find his pregnant, trafficked wife in Turkey. The film explores the global trafficking problem through personal stories and unfettered access to traffickers and the people used as human chattel.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7518

So far from India 1983

Describes the experiences of a recently arrived Indian immigrant in America, contrasting them with the traditional world of his new bride whom he left behind in India. Seeks to explore the conflicts that arise when Indian culture meets American society.

1 videocassette (49 min.)

MEDIA 2-7509

Trafficked 2005

This documentary follows former police officer Chris Payne as he investigates the crime of trafficking for prostitution.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7523

The un-Americans 1992?

Anti-communists and victims of the McCarthy era 'witch hunts' speak candidly about the anti-communist hysteria and blacklists that occurred from 1945 to the early 1950s in the United States. Includes newspaper cartoons and footage from newsreels and propaganda films.

1 videocassette (50 min.)

MEDIA 2-7546

The virgin diaries 2002

Fatiha is on the verge of marrying the man chosen for her long ago, but her fiance's disturbing views shock her. He believes that, in the eyes of Islam, even a kiss of the hand is forbidden before marriage. So Fatiha and her friend Jessica, an American researching Moroccan family law reforms, embark on a journey through Morocco in search of answers to her questions about virginity, sex and Islam. The Virgin diaries is the story of their travels.

1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-7505

Voices from the brink 2001

A summary of the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis as they unfolded in the Kennedy White House. At the time of production audio tapes of White House conversations had recently been declassified and excerpts are included in the program, along with archival footage and recent interviews with Robert McNamara and others.

1 videocassette (25 min.)

MEDIA 2-7521

Waging a living 2004

Discusses the day-to-day struggles of four low-wage earners to support their families. Jean Reynolds and Mary Venittelli of New Jersey, Jerry Longoria of San Francisco, and Barbara Brooks of Freeport, N.Y. relate their dreams, frustrations, and accomplishments.

1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-7531

Walter Kerr on theater 1970

Drama critic Walter Kerr comments on excerpts of five plays performed by top professionals. Mr. Kerr clarifies characteristics unique to the live dramatic form by comparing these scenes with film segments. Includes scenes from No place to be somebody, Prometheus, Richard III, The importance of being earnest, and The serpent.

1 videocassette (ca. 27 min.)

MEDIA 2-7542

Zulu dawn p2005

This story recounts the defeat of the British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army.

1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-663