Cinema Studies
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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THE MAN WHO DREW BUG-EYED MONSTERSCinema Studies Art History American Studies
This fascinating and entertaining documentary celebrates the work of Reynold Brown,
one of the most acclaimed movie poster artists of the Fifties and early Sixties, whose
work colorfully encapsulated the nation's postwar social climate.
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DEBUTCultural Studies New York City Urban Studies Political Science Performing Arts Narrative Films Music Cinema Studies Asian-American Studies Asian Studies American Studies Directed by Women
This cinema-verite documentary explores the realities of life as a classical musician
through the story of Hexagon, a newly-formed chamber ensemble. The documentary
chronicles their challenging first year and a half, from the group's seemingly casual first
rehearsal to its high-pressure launching into the mainstream of the classical music scene.
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LA MOUSTACHENarrative Films Cinema Studies
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the mustache he’s worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife’s reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a mustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world’s order gone terribly awry?
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THE NEW CINEMA
Features provocative interviews with some of the world's foremost independent
filmmakers, interspersed with excerpts from their films, including Chantal Akerman,
Emile de Antonio, Les Blank, Robert Frank, Wim Wenders and Robert Young, among
many others.
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FOR THE FIRST TIMESpanish Language Latin-American Studies Cinema Studies Short Films Cuban Studies
Celebrates the universal and almost magical appeal of motion pictures by showing a
Cuban Film Institute mobile film unit traveling deep into the Cuban countryside to show
peasants their first movie.
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TURNING DREAMS INTO REALITYShort Films Spanish Language Latin-American Studies Cinema Studies Directed by Women
A profile of Fernando Birri, 'Father' of the New Latin American Cinema.
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THE NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA (series)Latin-American Studies Cinema Studies Spanish Language Women's Studies Cuban Studies
This two-part documentary examines the social and artistic roots of the national cinemas
of Latin America.
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DAWS BUTLER: VOICE MAGICIANPerforming Arts Cinema Studies American Studies
Traces the career of one of America's best-loved but least-seen actors. During his fifty year career, Daws Butler (1916-1988) provided the voices for such beloved animated characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Chilly Willy, Elroy Jetson, and dozens of others.
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VI: PORTRAIT OF A SILENT STARWomen's Studies Cinema Studies American Studies
A documentary portrait of American silent screen star Viola Dana who began her career with the Edison Company in 1910 and starred in more than 100 productions before her retirement in 1929.
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KARL BROWN'S ADVENTURES WITH D.W. GRIFFITHCinema Studies American Studies
At the age of 90, cinematographer Karl Brown discusses his early work with D.W. Griffith, in particular the making of The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.
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BUDD BOETTICHER: ONE ON ONECinema Studies American Studies
Traces the colorful life and filmmaking career of one of Hollywood's most distinctive talents, who directed three classic bullfighting films, several crime thrillers and a series of low-budget Westerns that earned him a cult critical reputation. An outspoken interview with Boetticher is interspersed with clips from many of his films.
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