Videos on the U.S. and American Studies

Bhumika The Role 2000

Shyam Benegal, Smita Patila, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Amol Palekar, Bi. Vhi Karanta, and Hansa Wadkar

A drama based on the autobiography of the Marathi/Hindi actress Hansa Wadkar. Usha is taught music by her grandmother and eventually becomes an actress, a trajectory inflected by the four men she meets at various points in her life: her husband Keshav, narcissistic male co-star Rajan, effete filmmaker Sunil Verma, and the landowner Kale whose second wife she eventually becomes. Many aspects of the story allow the question of women's oppression to be raised,although Usha seems to end up identifying herself with self-sacrifice, defeated by the patriarchal mores that have weighed on her since childhood. 1 videodisc (142 min.)

MEDIA 10-206

Global voices comprehensive: Music and culture of Kyrgyzstan c2008

Munara Mailybekova, A ida Ne imat gyzy Guse?inova, Mary Goetze, Jay Fern, and Mj & Associates, Inc

This video highlights the music and culture of Kyrgyzstan. 1 videodisc (5 min.)

MEDIA 10-1769

Khandan the musical heritage of Shujaat Khan : a film 1998

Arundhati Sen, Daniel M Neuman, and Shujaat Khan

Shujaat Khan recounts here with stories, anecdotes and musical examples what is means to be a khandani musician (that is, born into a musician's lineage); the discipline involved in practice, the competitive environment of other family virtuosi, the learning opportunities with other musicians, and the sense of a historical inevitability that is the inherited conception of being born a khandani musician. With still images, concert and other footage, and the compellingly expressive mode of Shujaat Khan's extraordinary verbal and musical communication skills the viewer is transported to that very special world of the khandani artist, a world until now not easily available to outsiders. 1 videocassette (43 min.)

MUSIC 10-3253     332

Platform Zhan tai c2002

Jieming Li, Shozo Ichiyama, Zhangke Jia, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jingdong Liang, Tianyi Yang, Hu Tong Communication, T-Mark Inc, Artcam International, and Artificial Eye (Firm)

Follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history, from 1979 to 1989. In the small town of Fenyang, in the remote western province of Shanxi, the teenage members of a state theatre troupe stage propaganda plays in praise of Mao. But as the country opens up to the free market and implements wide-ranging reform, their lives are irrevocably changed as the world around them is transformed by the music, fashions and other cultural influences of the West. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MEDIA 10-397