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News from the AV Library
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by Mary Lou Neighbour, AV Librarian
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Faculty, Please Note! We Welcome Your Requests!!
If you need AV materials for your classes, please contact Assistant Director, Debbie Dulepski (ddulepsk@mc3.edu or X6590) or AV Librarian, Mary Lou Neighbour (mneighbo@mc3.edu or X7355). We want to help you get the materials you need for instruction. We would appreciate, if possible, your accompanying requests with catalogs or order information. We look forward to hearing from you!
LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION TRIAL WITH ROSETTA STONE
New in the AV Library this year is a trial of online instruction in Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic through the language instruction program, Rosetta Stone. Access to the program is through your email address, and is available for the semester, or longer if needed. For each of the languages, we are offering Levels 1 & 2 instruction. The Arabic log-ins have been assigned for the year. However, if you are interested in working with the Japanese or Chinese program, please contact Mary Lou Neighbour (X7355 or email at mneighbo@mc3.edu)
Longer Hours for AV Library
As mentioned in the main article of N&Q, the AV Library will be open longer hours, beginning Spring Semester. As of Wednesday, January 18, AV’s hours will coincide with The Brendlinger Library. Monday – Thursday we will open at 7:30 a.m., and on Fridays, we will close at 5:00 p.m. This is to better serve the College community.
February is African American History Month
Listed below is a selection of materials on DVD celebrating the contributions and history of African Americans. Please come to the AV Library to check out one of these titles, or choose from our wealth of additional African American materials on videotape.
Documentaries:
| America Beyond the Color Line. | DVD 553 |
In this documentary, Harvard chair of Afro-American Studies, Henry Louis Gates, travels around the United States to examine the state of modern black America in the 21st century. Gates visits the East coast, deep South, inner city Chicago and Hollywood, and talks with such notable black Americans as Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Jesse Jackson and Maya Angelou.
| Citizen King. | DVD 806 |
This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans.
| Hoop Dreams. | DVD 888 |
Award-winning documentary follows the high school careers of two young African American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
| Jazz (Ken Burns series) | DVD 93 |
This 10-part documentary program explores the history and evolution of jazz, from its beginnings in the city of New Orleans during the 1890s through the 1990's. The program presents the stories and contributions of many of the creators and performers of jazz, describing the evolution of jazz through its many stages including Dixieland, Swing, Bebop, Hard Bop, Model, Free, Avant-garde, and Fusion. Additionally, the program features archival photographs, paintings, and posters, rare film footage including television performances, feature films, home movies, newsreels, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
| Marcus Garvey. | DVD 552 |
This documentary presents the story of Marcus Garvey, the controversial African American civil rights leader of the early 20th century. Garvey, a great orator, rallied thousands of African Americans to his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The filmmakers interview people who attended the rallies 80 years ago, and show archival footage of Garvey's evangelical-style meetings.
| Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema. | DVD 269 |
Independent African American films of the 1920s through mid 1950s are shown as a mirror of the Black experience of the time. They developed as a reaction to the way African Americans were depicted by film makers such as D.W. Griffith. This program focuses on the innovative works of film makers Spencer Williams, Oscar Micheaux, Eloyse Gist, and Clarence Muse. Includes clips from their various works.
| Muhammad Ali, the Greatest. | DVD 364 |
This is a documentary about the African American boxer, Cassius Clay, who later renamed himself Muhammad Ali. It shows the boxer becoming heavyweight champion of the world in 1964. The day after his victory, Clay reveals that he is a Black Muslim and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. The film also shows Ali fighting George Foreman for the heavyweight championship in Zairë in 1974.
| Slavery and the Making of America. | DVD 807 |
This documentary program examines the history of slavery in the United States and the role it played in shaping the new country's development, using dramatic reenactments to delve deeply into the slave experience from the slave's point of view. Part 1 covers the period from 1619 through 1739, focusing on Dutch New Amsterdam (New York City), where slavery was similar to indentured servitude, and ending with the bloody Stono rebellion in South Carolina, which led to the passage of the 'black codes." Part 2 spans from 1740 to 1830, covering the expansion of slavery in the colonies, the evolution of a distinct African American culture, and the roots of the emancipation movement. Part 3 looks at the period from 1800 through the start of the Civil War, when slavery expanded west, became an overriding political issue, and led to a widening rift between North and South. Part 4 follows the life of Robert Smalls through the Civil War, Reconstruction and after the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (which ended slavery), and the 14th and 15th Amendments (which declared African Americans U.S. citizens, and African American males were given the right to vote). The rise of the Ku Klux Klan, militant white opposition to black rights, and legalized oppression after Reconstruction are examined.
| Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives. | DVD 279 |
This documentary program features dramatic readings of some of the more than 2000 interviews of individuals born into slavery which were conducted by journalists and writers during the Great Depression under the Federal Writer's Project. In capturing some of these memories, this program helps bring to life the pain and suffering, the fear and yearning, the pride, the spirit, and the deep sadness of those who had been born into slavery.
| Underground Railroad. | DVD 291 |
This film traces the journey to freedom taken by countless slaves, showing how they were guided, protected and pursued along the way. The story is told through historical documents, visits to important sites, interviews with the descendants of noted abolitionists, and commentary from experts.
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | DVD 808 |
This documentary tells the story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports - Heavyweight Champion of the World - in 1908, a time when the championship was an exclusively "white title." Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man.
Cinematic and TV Films, and Dramatizations of African American
Literature:
| Antwone Fisher. | DVD 329 |
| Beloved. | DVD 98 |
| Boyz n the Hood. | DVD 871 |
| The Color Purple. | DVD 608 |
| Do the Right Thing. | DVD 27 |
| Dutchman. | DVD 182 |
| Glory. | DVD 142 |
| The Hurricane. | DVD 293 |
| A Lesson Before Dying. | DVD 62 |
| Malcolm X. | DVD 70 |
| Mississippi Burning. | DVD 882 |
| A Raisin in the Sun. | DVD 294 |
| Roots. | DVD 145 |
| The Rosa Parks Story. | DVD 268 |
| Something the Lord Made. | DVD 914 |
February 20th is Presidents’ Day.
The following titles concerning the presidency are available on DVD in the AV Library. Please don’t forget that we also have a sizeable collection of material on the presidency on videotape.
Documentaries:
| The Clinton Years. | DVD 173 |
This documentary program follows Bill Clinton's campaign for the presidency and his eight years in office. The program includes interviews with George Stephanopoulos, Dee Dee Myers, and other key administration officials.
| FDR: A Presidency Revealed. | DVD 846 |
A comprehensive original program from the History Channel, featuring exclusive interviews, rare audio recordings, newly-unearthed home movies, and diary entries, that reveals a never-before-seen side of FDR's presidency.
| The Hunting of the President. | DVD 556 |
This documentary, based on the book "The hunting of the president: the ten year campaign to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton" by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason, is the story of a sustained and well-funded Republican effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial.
| Image of an Assassination. | DVD 755 |
Chronicles the history of the Zapruder film, a home movie filmed in 1963 by Abraham Zapruder, which captured the assasination of John F. Kennedy. Includes several versions of the film. Includes interviews with Zapruder's business associates, friends, as well as archivists at the National Archives and the photography experts who made the digital replicas of the original film.
| JFK: A Presidency Revealed. | DVD 444 |
A portrait of John F. Kennedy, our 35th president, complete with rarely-heard recordings of JFK and his brother, Robert; interviews with personal confidantes, insiders and highly-placed sources; and home videos of the Kennedy family. Part 2 features 2 episodes from A & E's "Biography" series, one on JFK and the other on the patriarch of the Kennedy family, Joseph Kennedy, Sr.
| Woodrow Wilson. | DVD 833 |
Using photos, letters, newsreels, archival footage and filmed reenactments, this program tells the story of a professor who became one of America's greatest presidents. It shows Wilson to be an emotionally complex man who craved affection and demanded unquestioned loyalty. The program is a portrait of a towering intellectual, one who appeared to espouse unwavering moral principles but who, nonetheless, shredded civil liberties during wartime and withheld support of civil rights and women's suffrage.
Dramatizations:
| All the President’s Men. | DVD 46 |
| JFK. | DVD 843 |
| Wag the Dog. | DVD 75 |
| The West Wing. | DVD 445 |
