Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu

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New Acquisitions - November 2006

24/7 2005

The develomenally disabled require constant care by their parents. This documentary illustrates the difficulties parents and professional caregivers in Florida must deal with every day.

1 videocassette (33 min.)

MEDIA 2-7679

Aging successfully the psychological aspects of growing old 1998

Discusses how people can age successfully to live fulfilling lives through the processes of selection, optimization, and compensation.

1 videocassette (31 min.)

MEDIA 2-7674

Breathing freely controlling asthma triggers 2006

1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-7645

Children in America's schools with Bill Moyers 2004

Covering only public school districts in Ohio, this program examines the extreme range in physical conditions and educational opportunities presented in the rural, suburban, and city schools of Ohio. Includes a panel discussion moderated by Bill Moyers.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7663

A conversation with Marcel Duchamp 1958

Duchamp discusses his paintings and ideas, and considers his Nude Descending a Staircase and other works with the curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, James John Sweeney.

1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA D-283

The cyclist 2005

Nasim, formerly a cyclist and now an Afghan refugee in Iran, must overcome many obstacles in his attempt to ride a bicycle continuously for seven days and nights in order to make money to pay for medical care for his desperately ill wife.

1 videodisc (79 min.)

MEDIA 10-701

D.E.S., an uncertain legacy 1985

Uses newsreel footage, family photos, and interviews to document the history and use of D.E.S., a synthetic hormone routinely administered to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage but which, years later, produced harmful side effects to children born of the women who used the hormone.

1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-7651

Daman 2005

Durga, a meek wife, endures constant physical and psychological abuse from her husband, Sanjay. He rapes her and she bears a daughter, who he refuses to acknowledge because he will only accept a son. Durga finds the strength of the Goddess Durga, whose name she bears, to protect her daughter from Sanjay.

1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-702

... death before slavery 2005

Documentary about the current situation in Bolivia, with focus on the indigenous opposition to foreign corporations in the country and an analysis of the events and reasons that culminated in the 2005 resignation of Bolivian President Carlos Mesa.

1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7666

Edward Albee's all over 2001

In a large, elegant sitting room, a famous man lies dying behind a discreet hospital screen. Reporters and television crews are waiting downstairs to record the event for posterity, while gathered in the 'death chamber' are the great man's wife, mistress, son, daughter, and best friend, the family lawyer.

1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-7662

Finally got the news-- 2003?

A documentary presenting the workers' view of working conditions inside Detroit's auto factories. It focuses on the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in their efforts to build an independent African American labor organization.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-7673

Further off the straight & narrow new gay visibility on television 2006

Surveys network dramas, sitcoms, reality shows, and premium cable programming to show how the portrayal of GLBT characters is often marked by ambivalence and tension. The film cautions that the images and stories portrayed continue to be shaped by narrow commercial imperatives.

1 videodisc (61 min.)

MEDIA 10-697

Getting across passage of aquatic and semi-aquatic organisms at road-stream crossings 2003

2 videocassettes (22 min., 30 sec.)

MEDIA 2-6352 & 2-6353

Gore Vidal's the best man 1990

Story of two candidates for their party's presidential nomination. One is an intellectual with a sense of morality, the other an opportunist who would win at all costs. The deciding factor is the endorsement of the out-going president who thrives on political in-fighting and deplores indecision.

1 videocassette (103 min.)

MEDIA 2-7656

Helping parents understand their newborn the Clinical Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale 2003

Discusses the Clinical Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, which can be used by parents, clinicians and educators in hospital encounters and home settings during the first three months of life to develop relationships between babies and their caregivers.

1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.)

MEDIA 2-7678

Hidden victims children of domestic violence 2003

Explores some of the devastating ways in which children are affected by growing up in a home in which there is domestic violence. Profiles four families, including adults who are perpetuating domestic abuse in their families in response to domestic abuse they experienced growing up.

1 videodisc (45 min.)

MEDIA 10-695

Hip-hop beyond beats and rhymes 2006

Examines the representation of manhood in hip-hop culture and explores the related issues of race, gender violence and corporate explotation of hip-hop.

1 videodisc (61 min.)

MEDIA 10-700

How do you spell murder? illiteracy and crime 2002

Studies show that illiteracy is a primary cause of crime and that education helps reduce recidivism. Because of this, the New Jersey State Prison has begun an inmate-run literacy program. This film presents interviews with student/tutor teams, following their progress throughout a year.

1 videocassette (40 min.)

MEDIA 2-7667

The human voice 1966

A one-sided telephone conversation in which the woman tries to win back her lover despite her growing suspicion that he is calling from his young fiancée's home.

1 videocassette (50 min.)

MEDIA 2-7665

I am a man Black masculinity in America 2006

A documentary that explores what it means to be a black man in America. It confronts issues of race, and racism, through the lens of gender, probing deep within the traditional American ideals of manhood in order to draw out the complex and often ambivalent nature of black male identity.

1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-699

In the name of love 2002

"Five Russian women, four of them single mothers, struggle for dignity as they endure male chauvinism, poverty, and culture shock all while searching for..."--from back cover.

1 videodisc (58 min.)

MEDIA 10-685

The keeper the legend of Omar Khayyam 2005

Kamran, a 12 year old boy, travels from the U.S. to England and Iran in pursuit of the life story of his ancestor, 11th century mathematician, astronomer and poet Omar Khayyam.

1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-698

Key constitutional concepts 2006

Part 1 explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution, part 2 describes the protection of individual rights and part 3 explores the separation of powers.

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 317 10-689

Mandate the president and the people 2006

From George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, examines the relationship between the presidency, mass media, and public opinion.

1 videodisc (ca. 35 min.)

MEDIA 10-691

Neighbors 2000

A provocative, emotion-packed drama about race relations in an all-white suburban community that depicts the confrontation between an upper-class white couple and a black couple from Harlem who plan to buy their expensive suburban home. In negotiating the sale, all four learn a little more about each other ... and a lot about their own latent prejudices.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7676

Our Constitution [videorecording] a conversation 2005

Conversation between Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the constitution.

1 videodisc (30 min.)

MEDIA 10-690

Out of our father's house 2000

Presents the true life stories of women who sought independence at any cost. The text is taken entirely from the diaries, journals and letters of the characters portrayed, among Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Mother" Mary Jones, and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.

1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-7660

Perception the theories 1999

Discusses the senses, including proprioception, and theories of Structuralist, Gestalt, Constructivist and Direct perception are analyzed.

1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-7654

The pirates of Penzance 2001

Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous and comedic operatic tale of Federic, a 'slave to duty' pirate, and the lowly band of 'orphaned' pirates, is captured in all its fun and glory in this never before released production.

1 videocassette (128 min.)

MEDIA 2-7677

Plata quemada Burnt money 2002

When two gay thugs, Angel and El Nene, join a plan to hold up an armored truck with a group of seasoned gangsters, their love and loyalty to each other is tested.

1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-693

The Rimers of Eldritch 2000

This adaptation of Lanford Wilson's play is set in a ghostly town on the verge of disappearing, a place where the only movie house closed 8 years ago. The plot revolves around the sexual assault of a teenage girl and on unrelated murder trial in the town of Eldritch, exploring a community's reaction to rape, lies and murder.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 2-7658

Rudaali 2004

A social drama emphasizing conventions of social roles and narrative development through conflict and cathartic resolution of a woman who becomes a "Rudaali" i.e. a professional mourner.

1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-696

The skin of our teeth 2000

Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family-- a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people.

1 videocassette (125 min.)

MEDIA 2-7675

The sorrows of gin 2000

The story of an eight year old girl's search for a sense of family amid the sophisticated and detached whirl of her parents' lives in suburban America.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1398

Steambath 2002

Controversial comedy about 12 characters in a steambath which turns out to be a waiting room between this world and the next.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 2-7661

The story of human language: Parts I-III 2004

Presents lectures on the history of language.

6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.)

MEDIA 10-686 10-687 10-688

Tala! det "ar så Mårkt = Speak up! : it's so dark 1993

A fictional film about Jacob, a Jewish psychiatrist, and Soren, a neo-Nazi skinhead. Issues of neo-Nazism, Holocaust denial, and violence provide the backdrop for a series of encounters between the two men.

1 videocassette (ca. 86 min.)

MEDIA 2-7664

A touch of the poet 2000

Part of a nine-play chronicle spanning 175 years in the life of an American family.

1 videocassette (150 min.)

MEDIA 2-7659

Uncommon women and others 2000

An adaptation for television of the Phoenix Theatre's production of Wendy Wasserstein's play about five friends who hold a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke.

1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 2-7653

Up south 1998

Between 1916 and 1921, 500,000 African-Americans moved from the south to cities in the North. Mississipians chose Chicago as their destination in the great migration. This is their story.

1 videodisc (30 min.)

MEDIA 10-694

The world of the Lindisfarne Gospels 2004

Presents the Lindisfarne Gospels in their historical and cultural context, filmed on location in England and Ireland.

1 videodisc (46 min., 45 sec.)

MEDIA 10-692

XXI Century: Part 6: Blood and oil 2005

This video zeroes in on the stated reasons, and the real reasons, for the Iraq war. Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, historian Arno Mayer and others share their critiques and point of views.

1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-7650