The ballad of Greenwich Village 2005?
Karen Kramer, Lili Taylor, Karen Kramer Films, Erzulie Films, and Filmakers Library, inc
Explores the history of Greenwich Village, especially as a home for radical social and political movements as well as creative artists, musicians, and writers. 1 videodisc (70 min.)
MEDIA 10-1774
Conversations in genetics an oral history of our intellectual heritage in genetics 1997-2003
Rochelle Easton Esposito and Genetics Society of America
'A collection of conversations with geneticists who have made major contributions to the conceptual foundations of modern genetics. These presentations reflect the thoughts and feelings of accomplished researchers as they recall their research achievements and describe the paths they took during various phases of their lives. They provide a rich resouce for anyone interested in the history of genetics and the evolution of scientific ideas.'--Container. 5 videodiscs (329 min.) :
MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 10-3043 disc 1 10-3043 disc 2 10-3043 disc 3 10-3043 disc 4 10-3043 disc 5 10-3214 disc 1 10-3214 disc 2 10-3214 disc 3 10-3214 disc 4 10-3214 disc 5
Darwin's dangerous idea 2009
"For 21 years, Charles Darwin kept his theory of evolution secret from all but a few friends. He confided to one: "It's like confessing to a murder." His torment resonates in society today -- in the challenge his incredibly powerful idea poses to our understanding of our world and ourselves. Darwin's Dangerous Idea interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It explores why Darwin's "dangerous idea" might matter even more today than it did in his own time, and reveals how science might be used to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth"--Container. 1 videodisc (117 min.)
MEDIA 10-4030
An encounter with Simone Weil c2011
What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the controversial French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), whose life and work took on this question in a dramatic way. Adopting Weil as her guide through an engaging and profound moral landscape, Julia goes on a journey to understand Weil's loss of faith in revolutionary politics and the spiritual awakening that followed. Driving her obsession with Weil is the interwoven story of suffering within Haslett's own family, her father's suicide when she was 17 and now her older brother's severe depression. When Weil dies from self-starvation at the height of World War II, she is left wondering if death was the logical conclusion to Weil's philosophy and her attempt to share the pain of others? 1 videodisc (85 min.)
MEDIA 10-3927
Forrest McDonald style and the intellectual origins of the constitution 2003
Bill D Moyers, Gail Pellett, Forrest McDonald, Jack Sameth, Public Affairs Television (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Historian Forrest McDonald talks to Bill Moyers about various aspects of the American presidency including the ceremonial functions of the office versus the responsibilities as chief executive officer, charisma versus competence, and the pitfalls of the second term presidency. McDonald relates these aspects of the presidency to the performance of various presidents including Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan. 1 videodisc (29 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2580
Furious flower II 2005
Judith McCray, Houston A Baker, Nikky Finney, Askia M Touré, and California Newsreel (Firm)
"This 3-part program provides the definitive teaching tool for exploring the world of today's black poetry. Providing a more focused, ambitious approach than its 1998 predecessor, Furious Flower II presents outstanding critical scholarship on black contemporary poetry's origins and trends, its conflicts and consonances. Throughout, notable authors share insights and offer inspiration to fledgling poets about the creative process, and about daily life as a published writer. Interspersed with these critical conversations are impassioned readings of the most representative poems of each poet. Viewers can watch as one of America's most exciting cultural movements evolves before their eyes and ears. Program I - Roots and First Fruits traces black literary traditions from African American folklore to the Blues Aesthetic to Hip Hop, and illuminates their impact on poetry. Program II - Cross-Pollination in the Diaspora reflects upon the reciprocal influence between black American poets and writers from the African literary Diaspora. Program III - Blooming in the Whirlwind locates black poets within their historic moment and contextualizes them within relevant political movements - Civil Rights, Black Nationalism, post-colonialism and multiculturalism."--Www.newsreel.org. 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2504
Grace Lee Boggs c2007
Kae Halonen, University of Michigan--Dearborn, and Campus Media Services
Grace Lee Boggs was interviewed by Kae Halonen as part of the Motor City Voices Project. She was one of the most significant activist intellectuals to participate in the turbulent late 1960s in Detroit. She became an editor for the Correspondence, a publication exploring the limits of Marxist theory. She met Jimmy Boggs, a prolific political writer himself. They were married in 1953 and moved to Detroit where they collaborated on the Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party, which was presented at the National Black Economic Conference, and was an influential document for the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Convinced that it was not sufficient to organize only at the point of production, Boggs expanded the scope of her political work through groups like Gardening Angels, which works with inner-city youth in Detroit. Working together with members of the Boggs Center, she actively promotes alternative models for sustainable economies. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
MEDIA 10-4343
Herskovits at the heart of blackness c2009
Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Aaron Brown, Christine Herbes-Sommers, Vital Pictures (Firm), Independent Television Service, and California Newsreel (Firm)
This documentary traces the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. Rarely seen archival footage, provocative animation, and unique photo montage re-enactments propel the story and interviews from leading scholars of race and culture forward. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-1525
Lotmani maailm Lotman's world 2009
IU. M Lotman, Agne Nelk, Rein Pakk, Kiur Aarma, Eesti Filmi Sihtasutus, and Icarus Films
"Blending archival footage and imaginative animation (and periodic mash-ups of both), LOTMAN'S WORLD introduces us to the life and work of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), a pioneer semiotician and cultural critic whose many writings in semiotics and structuralism dealt with a wide range of artistic, theoretical and historical issues. Lotman studied philology and literature at Leningrad State University and served as a radio operator during WWII, but after the war Lotman was unable to continue his studies or find employment in Moscow because of anti-Semitism. In 1950 he began teaching at Tartu University in Estonia, which he found an oasis of free thought, where he could lecture and write and conduct research with likeminded educators. Lotman's Tartu colleagues-including Boris Uspensky, Alexander Piatigorsky, Vladimir Toporov and Vyacheslav Ivanov-plus semioticians such as Umberto Eco and Peter Torop, discuss the cultural study of signs, signifiers and meanings, languages as both textual and visual structures, and reminisce about Lotman's talents as a lecturer and his brilliance as a thinker and writer. In archival interviews, Lotman himself discusses the broader context of semiotics, which involves the relationship between culture and nature, the importance of moral qualities such as tolerance, intelligence, and self-respect, the true nature of freedom, and the overall meaning of life. Interviews with family members, including his older sister and his son, round out this portrait of Lotman as both human being and influential teacher and author."--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2345
The manuscripts of Timbuktu 2009
This documentary demonstrates that Timbuktu was a leading cultural, economic, scientific and religious center that made a significant and lasting impact on Africa and the entire world. The film documents that Africa had vibrant scholarly institutions and written cultures long before European intervention. It establishes the importance of preserving ancient manuscripts as an exciting and empowering legacy for Africana scholarship today. 1 videodisc (52 min.)
MEDIA 10-3879
Marx reloaded 2011
A cultural documentary that uses some of the central ideas of 19th century German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx to try to make sense of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. This crisis prompted the U.S. government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from financial meltdown. But can the largest financial losses in history really be put down to the natural risks and uncertainties of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why the crisis happened and what its implications are for the future of our society, our economy, for our whole way of life? 1 videodisc (53 min.)
MEDIA 10-4159
Oasis of ideas, learning, leadership UWI St. Augustine at 50 c2011
"This film captures five remarkable decades of intellectual life at the heart [of] one of the Caribbean's most outstanding institutions, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. It takes us back to the beginnings in the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture from 1922, through the rich historical past predating the last five decades that remained untapped... Examining contributions to teaching and research from the five faculties that constitute the UWI St. Augustine in its 50th year, the film brings to light an important passage in the growth of intellectual traditions in Trinidad and Tobago."--Container. 1 videodisc (35 min.)
MEDIA 10-3987
The origins of cultural studies a lecture c2006
Stuart Hall, Sut Jhally, and Media Education Foundation
This convocation address, delivered on the occasion of Hall's receipt of an honorary degree from the University of Massachusetts, outlines the social, intellectual and institutional origins of cultural studies. It also deals with the field's importance in the study of race and ethnicity. 1 videodisc (33 min.)
MEDIA 10-718
Paul Goodman changed my life c2011
Jonathon Lee, Kimberly Reed, JSL Films, Independent Feature Project, and Zeitgeist Films
This film immerses you in a era of high intellect when New York was peaking culturally and artistically; when ideas, and the people who propounded them, seemed to punch in at a higher weight class than they do now. Using a treasure trove of archival multimedia -- director/producer Jonathan Lee and producer/editor Kimberly Reed have woven together a rich portrait of an intellectual heavyweight whose ideas are long overdue for rediscovery. 1 videodisc (89 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3583
Shoot for the contents 2006?
Reflecting on Mao's famous saying, "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend," this film explores the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China and attempts to realize on screen the shifts of interpretation in contemporary Chinese culture and politics. Ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by the events in Tienanmen Square. The film layers Chinese popular songs and classical music, the sayings of Mao and Confucius, women's voices and the words of artists, philosophers and other cultural workers. Also discusses the Chinese film industry and censorship. 1 videodisc (101 min.)
MEDIA 10-4295
Singer a dangerous mind 2004, c2003
Margie Bryant, David Roach, Terry Carlyon, Robert Menzies, Film Finance Corporation (Australia), Serendipity Productions, Australian Film Commission, British Broadcasting Corporation, and ABC News
"Dr. Peter Singer has been called the most influential living philosopher. He has also been called a monster. In this thought-provoking program, he faces his critics and discusses his ideas on euthanasia, abortion, and infanticide. The program follows his worldwide tour of lectures and encounters, including case conferences and a trip to Austria, where most of his family was killed in the Holocaust. A range of commentators consider his utilitarian stance and its impact on public policy"--Container. 1 videodisc (56 min.)
MEDIA 10-286
Stokely Carmichael, Roundhouse, London, 22 July 1967 2013?
In July 1967, Stokely Carmichael attended the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, an international gathering of leftwing activists and intellectuals held at the Roundhouse in London. At this historically important event, Carmichael gave two speeches and fielded questions from an often antagonistic audience, addressing black power, civil rights, black nationalism and post-colonialism. During the first, he shares the stage with Allen Ginsberg. In between, a gathering of young white teens discuss their own opinions on what occurred during his first speech. 1 videodisc (59 min.)
MEDIA 10-4477