Cinema Studies
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WELCOME TO NOLLYWOODCinema Studies African Studies Media Studies Economics Cultural Studies 2007
After the U.S. and India, the world's third largest producer of feature films is Nigeria. Welcome to Nollywood explores this burgeoning film industry, from its unique challenges to its diverse array of films that both mirror and comment upon the social ills of the continent.
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THE GREAT COMMUNIST BANK ROBBERYSociology Political Science Media Studies Jewish Studies Eastern Europe Criminal & Law Cinema Studies
This striking documentary reveals the incredible story behind the greatest bank robbery that ever occurred in a Communist state - a tale of disillusionment, resistance, government propaganda, and Jewish life behind the iron curtain.
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THE INHERITANCE (narrative)Labor Studies Europe Cinema Studies Business Narrative Films
Selected by Time Magazine as one of the ten top films of 2004, Per Fly’s The Inheritance is a powerful and timely drama about a man torn between family and business.
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OYSTER FARMER (narrative)Narrative Films Cinema Studies Directed by Women
Filmed along Australia’s breathtakingly beautiful Hawkesbury River, Anna Reeves’ deliciously surprising film is a comedy about love, community and freshly shucked oysters.
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THE ANIMATED CENTURYMedia Studies Cinema Studies Animation Directed by Women
Animated hosts Professor Edward A. Elderberry and his disciple Horace, introduce clips from 160 films from 26 countries, and discuss the most significant animated films of the past 100 years.
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LOOK OUT HASKELL, IT'S REAL: THE MAKING OF MEDIUM COOL
This video examines the production of Haskell Wexler's classic film, a docu-drama set amidst the street riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the film's social and aesthetic importance in American cinema.
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THE NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA: THE LONG ROADWomen's Studies Spanish Language Latin-American Studies Cinema Studies
The Long Road, examines the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, and the emergence of a new women's cinema.
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THE NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA: CINEMA OF THE HUMBLEWomen's Studies Spanish Language Latin-American Studies Cinema Studies
Explores the movement's origins, traces the evolution of its theoretical and esthetic positions, and focuses on the development of cinema in Cuba and Nicaragua.
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SID AT 90Aging / Gerontology Cinema Studies Jewish Studies Performing Arts
Profiles actor, comedian, impersonator and variety performer Sid Raymond, in the process challenging the assumption that celebrity defines success.
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LEGACY OF THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLISTSociology Political Science Cinema Studies American Studies Directed by Women
This documentary, hosted and narrated by Burt Lancaster, examines the effects of the highly publicized investigation of the motion picture industry by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), which began in 1947.
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IN AND OUT OF FOCUSSociology Business Cinema Studies Women's Studies Directed by Women
A documentary about women in the film business and how they balance children, love lives and career—or how they don't.
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GLITTER PALACEAmerican Studies Cinema Studies Performing Arts
Features interviews with retired artists' film and theater actors and actresses, set designers, cinematographers, casting directors, script supervisors, and so on—who reside in the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles or in the Performing Arts Lodge in Toronto.
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BAD GIRLWomen's Studies Human Sexuality Cinema Studies Directed by Women
In a Los Angeles film studio, the cameras roll on an X-rated film, and in the director's chair sits a woman. In New York and San Francisco, companies created by women market hard-core videos to the female consumer.
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TAKING AIMSociology Spanish Language Media Studies Latin-American Studies Cultural Studies Cinema Studies Anthropology Directed by Women
In 1985, Monica Frota, an independent Brazilian filmmaker, collaborated with the
Kayapo people of the Brazilian rain forest to develop Mekaron Opoi D'joi (He Who
Creates Images), the first Kayapo media project.
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MANOS A LA OBRA: THE STORY OF OPERATION BOOTSTRAPCinema Studies Economics Latin-American Studies Media Studies Political Science Spanish Language Directed by Women
Examines Puerto Rico's `Operation Bootstrap,' the highly vaunted economic
development plan undertaken in the 1950s to provide a role model for economic
development throughout Latin America.
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DEAR CARRY
This video is based on the travel films of Caroline Wagner, a New York amateur
filmmaker, whose peripatetic travels took her on over a hundred voyages around the
world, her hand-cranked 16mm movie camera always in hand, from 1939 until the mid-
Sixties.
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DAY THE COLD WAR CAME HOME, THEAmerican History American Studies Cinema Studies Sociology World History
In October 1947, screenwriter Gordon Kahn was one of those subpoenaed to appear
before the House on Un-American Activities Committee which was investigating
`communist subversion' of the film industry.
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SHEPHERD'S PIE AND SUSHIAsian-American Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Women's Studies Directed by Women Immigration
In 1993, Mieko Ouchi, a half-white, half-Japanese actress, began researching a
documentary about her Japanese immigrant grandfather. Shortly thereafter, she was cast
to star in The War Between Us, a feature film on the WWII internment of Japanese-North
Americans, thus re-enacting a key episode in her own community's history.
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STEFAN LORANT: MAN IN PICTURESCinema Studies Europe Media Studies Photography
This video chronicles the career of the Budapest-born Stefan Lorant (1901-1997), one of
the twentieth century's most influential photo editors and a pioneer in photojournalism.
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RAT ART: CROATIAN INDEPENDENTSPerforming Arts Eastern Europe Cinema Studies Art History
Offers a fascinating overview of artistic activity in Croatia during the recent war in the
former Yugoslavia, revealing the diversity and vitality of its artists as well as how their
work was profoundly influenced by the conflict.
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