Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu

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New Acquisitions - February 2007

American cultural history racism 2005

Contents: Don't be a sucker / U.S. War Department (1947, 18 min.) -- Integration, Report 1 / Andover Productions (1960, 21 min.) -- Let us break bread together / City of New York, Board of Education (1954, 26 min.) Added Title: Don't be a sucker Added Title: Integration, Report 1 Added Title: Let us break bread togetherDon't be a sucker: Uses the example of Nazi Germany to drive home the point that American's should not be fooled by people who wage a war against minorities. It warns them not to be "a sucker" and to live in harmony despite differences of color, race or religion. Integration, Report 1: Historical footage of the Civil Rights movement in 1959 and 1960 including footage of rallies staged in Montgomery, Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. Let us break bread together: A promotional film on Detroit as the host city for the 1968 Olympics showing views of highways, automobile manufacturing, a diverse population and social activities, all shot prior to the city's economic decline.

1 videodisc (ca. 64 min.)

DANA 322

Autism 2001

Performer Note: Narrator, Sven ErikssonBuilt around several case studies, this program discusses high- and low-functioning autism; illustrates structural and functional differences between autistic and non-autistic brains; considers genetics, neurological diseases, and immune system anomalies as possible contributory factors; and discusses associated conditions, such as mental retardation, epilepsy, and echolalia.

1 videocassette (53 min.)

MEDIA 2-7703

Benny's video 2006

Performer Note: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid StassnerBenny likes to watch violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Benny soon loses his mind, killing a girl and filming the murder with his video camera.

1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-745

Bram Stoker's Dracula 1997

Performer Note: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell, Sadie Frost, Tom WaitsThe tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his reincarnated long-lost love.

1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.)

MEDIA 10-751

The BRD trilogy Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, Lola 2003

Performer Note: Starring, in Maria Braun: Hanna Schygull, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny; in Veronika Voss: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess; in Lola: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf Contents: The marriage of Maria Braun / screenplay, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Frölich : 1979 (120 min.) -- Veronika Voss / screenplay, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Frölich : 1982 (104 min.) -- Lola / screenplay, Peter Märthesheimer, Fassbinder, and Pea Frölich : 1981 (115 min.) -- The BRD triology : the supplements : 2003 (202 min.)In 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder embarked upon a project to trace the history of postwar Germany in a series of films told through the eyes of 3 remarkable women. The 3 films would garner him the international acclaim for which he had always yearned and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema.

4 videodiscs (541 min.)

MEDIA 10-752 v.1- v.4

Caché Hidden 2006

Performer Note: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Walid Afkir, Lester Makedonsky, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard, Denis Podalydes, Aissa MaigaA talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.

1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.)

MEDIA 10-744

Code inconnu récit incomplet de divers voyages = Code unknown : incomplete tales of several journeys 2002

Performer Note: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Sepp Bierbichler, Luminita Gheorghiu, Ona Lu Yenke, Arsinée KhanjianOn a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent, and a Romanian illegal immigrant. A portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world.

1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-750

Colours of Hungary [videorecording] 1 videocasette (10 min)

HUNGARIAN 31

Der amerikanische Freund 2002

Performer Note: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gerard BlainStory about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.

1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-291

Dracula 2006

Performer Note: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van SloanA vampire terrorizes the countryside in his search for human blood. Original theatrical version with the 1931 score, all-new bonus material, and all-new digitally remastered picture. Disc 2 includes the Spanish language version filmed concurrently.

2 videodiscs (ca. 75 min.)

MEDIA 10-738

Dying 1976

Shows how three people faced their own deaths, covering a period of two years. Aims to widen the perception and understanding of death.

1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA D-180

Éjféli mise a Mátyás-templomban [videorecording] 1990

Captured a Christmas midnight mass at the Matthias Catholic Church in Budapest, Hungary.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

HUNGARIAN 33

Fitzcarraldo 2002

Performer Note: Klaus Kinski, Claudia CardinaleStory of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.

1 videodisc (157 min.)

MEDIA 10-747

Funny games 2006

Performer Note: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering"Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement."--Imdb.

1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-748

Global warming the signs and the science 2005

Performer Note: Hosted and narrated by Alanis Morissette"Human activities are provoking an unprecedented era of atmospheric warming and climatic change. We're seeing more drought, more wildfires, more flooding, bigger storms and more variable weather. Tropical diseases are moving north, childhood respiratory illness is skyrocketing, and in the last three decades over 30 diseases new to science have emerged.... As we start to face our vulnerability to a changing climate, people across the USA and around the world have decided to do something. They are determined to be part of the solution to this issue and have launched all kinds of initiatives aimed at reducing the impact of climate change"--Container.

1 videodisc (60 min.)

DANA 320

Gods and monsters 2003

Performer Note: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave"It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the flamboyant director and the simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship"--Container.

1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-736

Graduating Peter 2003

Examines the challenges and benefits of educational mainstreaming for children with mental disabilities. Follows the story of Peter Gwasdauskis, a child with Down syndrome, in sixth grade, eighth grade and high school as he adds speech therapy and life skills classes and on-the-job training to his academic coursework. Includes interviews with Peter's parents, teachers, fellow students, aids and doctors.

1 videocassette (75 min.)

MEDIA 2-7702

An inconvenient truth 2006

Performer Note: Presenter, Al Gore Contents: Special features: Commentary with director Davis Guggenheim -- Commentary with producers Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns and Leslie Chilcott -- An update with former Vice-President Al GoreFormer Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.

1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-742

Interview with the vampire the vampire chronicles 2000

Performer Note: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst Added Title: In the shadow of the vampireA vampire with a conscience, Lestat (Cruise), tells the story of how he lured a young aristocrat (Pitt) into the immortality of the damned.

1 videodisc (122 min.)

MEDIA 10-737

Journey to the West Chinese medicine today 2001

A contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being practiced today. Shot in China and the U.S., this documentary introduces practitioners of different forms of Asian healing, and examines how Chinese medical practices are being imported, taught and replicated in the United States.

1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-7701

Malév Hungarian airlines invites you to Hungary [videorecording] Presents Hungarian landscapes, towns and Budapest.

1 videocassette (18 min)

HUNGARIAN 32

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 2004

Performer Note: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Ian Holm, Richard Briers, John Cleese1 videodisc (123 min.)

MEDIA 10-739

National Geographic's Strange days on planet Earth 2005

Performer Note: Hosted by Edward Norton Contents: Volume 1. Episode 1. Invaders ;Episode 2. The one degree factor -- Volume 2. Episode 3. Predators ; Episode 4. Troubled watersAround the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. They suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? Can we alter this course of events?

2 videodiscs (240 min.)

MEDIA 10-743 v.1-v.2

A nemzet könyvtára Országos Széchényi Könyvtár 1995

Presents the history, collection and services of the Hungarian National Library.

1 videocassette (30 min.)

HUNGARIAN 30

Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht 1999

Performer Note: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno GanzJonathan Harker, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize a real estate deal. When he arrives at his destination, he encounters Count Dracula and a series of tragic events.

1 videocassette (107 min.)

MEDIA 2-7699

La pianiste The piano teacher 2002

Performer Note: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît MagimelThe story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.

1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-746

Political advertisement 2004

This anthology documents the selling of the American presidency since the 1950's. It reveals the American process of television campaigns as a historical development of the TV "spot" as a political strategy and manipulative marketing technique. Included in the compilation of profiles are: Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, Jimmy Carter, Edward Kennedy, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, Pat Buchanan, Dick Lugar, Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Dole, Bob Dole, Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, John McCain, Michael Jordan, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and others. This is part of an ongoing twenty-year project.

1 videodisc (75 min.)

MEDIA 10-740

Public schools inc 2003

Performer Note: Correspondents, John Merrow, Diana B. HenriquesTen years after entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his plan to revolutionize education, Whittle's Edison Schools continue to be a lightning rod for the issue of for-profit, public education. Frontline and The Merrow Report join forces to investigate the Edision Schools and examine whether it's possible to create world-class schools that turn a profit.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7704

Shadow of the vampire 2003

Performer Note: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes, Aden Gillet, Eddie Izzard, Udo Kier, Catherine McCormack, Ronan VibertThe German director F.W. Murnau hires Max Schreck, the "ultimate method actor," to play Count Orlock in his vampire masterpiece Nosferatu. In Murnau's quest for realism, the movie is filmed at night in Czechoslovakia and Schreck appears only in character and full makeup. As cast and crew begin to disappear, it seems that Murnau has made a devil's bargain with Schreck, whose performance is too authentic.

1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-735

Street fight 2005

Performer Note: Cory Booker, Sharpe JamesFollows the 2002 race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32 year-old Cory Booker and four-term incumbent Sharpe James. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and housing projects, the election pitted a young challenger against an old style political machine that uses any means necessary, including harassment and police intimidation, to crush its opponents.

1 videodisc (82 min.)

DANA 321

The talented Mr. Ripley 2000

Performer Note: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker HallTom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

1 videodisc (139 min.)

MEDIA 10-734

These three 1992?

Performer Note: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Bonita GranvilleA lie told by a spiteful student has profound effects on the lives of her teachers and the local doctor.

1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-7700

To Meteoro vima tou pelargou Suspended step of a stork 2006

Performer Note: Marchello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory KarrFour countries--France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland--converged upon a production of this movie. On the Greek border a steady stream of refugees flows on a perpetual basis. Reporter Gregory Karr believes that he's spotted a familiar face among the anonymous throngs. It is a politician (Marchello Mastroianni) who has long been missing and assumed dead.

1 videocassette (138 min.)

MEDIA 10-741

Young Frankenstein 2006

Performer Note: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Madeline Kahn Added Title: Making frankensense of Young FrankensteinA finely tuned parody of the old Frankenstein movies, in which Wilder returns to the old country to clear his family name.

1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-733