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Acquisitions during Winter Q 2011
Hi all, it’s been awhile since I sent you some of my faves that were ordered this past couple of months. The list is fairly eclectic due to the fact that English, Theatre and Film students, faculty and scholars have such an amazing range of interests. This is just a smattering of some books and films. Remember, if you have any resources you’d like me to acquire, just give me a shout (wochna@ohio.edu).
Theatre as witness : three testimonial plays from South Africa
A woman in waiting / with Thembi Mtshali-Jones — Amajuba : like doves we rise / with Tshallo Chokwe, Roelf Matlala, Bongeka Mpongwana, Philip ‘Tipo’ Tindisa and Jabulile Tshabalala — He left quietly / with Duma Kumalo
An ethics of betrayal : the politics of otherness in emergent U.S. literatures and culture
Introduction: an ethics of betrayal — Late arrivals: an ethics of betrayal in racial and national formation — Accidents and obligations: minority neoconservatives and U.S. racial discourse — Ethnic America undercover: the intellectual and minority discourse — The passion: the betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee — Epilogue: the traitors in our midst
A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetrics
The Old Norse poetic corpus — An indigenous typology of Old Norse poetry, 1: Technical terms; 2: Genres and sub-genres of Skaldic verse — Circumstances of recording and transmission — Old Norse poetic aesthetics — The impact of Christianity on Old Norse poetry — Poetics and grammatica, 1: The twelfth century; 2: The Edda of Snorri Sturluson; 3: The third and fourth grammatical treatises — The Icelandic poetic landscape in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Big River (companion to King Korn)
King Corn tells the story of two college friends from Boston, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, who move to Iowa to plant an acre of corn and follow their harvest into the food system. In Big River, they investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream
Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard ‘Louie Bluie’ Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming year
Two semester telecourse on western civilization built around the classroom lectures of Eugen Weber, author, historian, and professor at UCLA. Weber’s lectures survey developments in politics, economics, industry, agriculture, art, philosophy, and daily life from ancient Egypt to our own time. (In association with Met Museum of Art)
Empiricism and the novel — Epistolarity and the democratic ideal — Idealism and the inhuman — Realism in literature and the laboratory — Scientist, moral realism and the new world order — Subjects of science — Says who? science and public understanding.
Encyclopaedia of Indian Theatre
9 volume set: 1. Bhasa — 2. Major Sanskrit dramatists — 3. Kalidasa — 4. Dictionary of music, dance and drama — 5. Rabindranath Tagore — 6. Folk theatre
Enemies of the People, (on order)
The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres.
Utilizing a vast collection of home movies found at flea markets and yard sales, as well as oral histories and family recordings from the 1920s to the 1950s, the filmmaker weaves together a remarkable and emotionally electrifying portrait of the changing face of the American family. These authentic artifacts of American history and culture are edited together to illustrate the entire cycle of life from birth to death, from childhood to adulthood, to provide a moving experience of the universal drama of family life during the first half of the twentieth century.
In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV’s wildly popular American idol-style series, Afghan star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to everyone across the country despite gender, ethnicity, or age
Titles that are ‘in processing from Video Data Bank:
Border Art Clasicos, This “conceptual package” of collaborative videos and writings by leading theorists is a unique opportunity for students, artists and educators to explore the psyche, experimental aesthetics, activist ethos and spiritual cosmology of legendary rebel artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Surveying the First Decade, Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-1980
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
World of George Kuchar
Woman Who, Yvonne Rainier
Waking, Stratman
Paranormal Trilogy, Stratman
Kings of the Sky, Stratman
In Order Not To Be Here, Deborah Stratman
Energy Country, Deborah Stratman
I thought i Was Seeing Convicts, Harun Farocki
Still Life, Farocki
Jim Finn Videoworks
Winter Q News and Updates
Ohio University Campus and College Green in winter, 1890-1910?
What’s in this post?
- some cool acquisitions – these reflect a small piece of things collected Fall 2010
- what’s happening with the Common Experience – read the Hunger Games
- what’s happening in the library Winter Q
- research and instruction for you and your students, anytime/anywhere
Acquisitions Fall 2010
This is just a brief list of titles I purchased for Theatre, Film and Literature and some titles from Fine Arts. Let me know if you would like to see more of the same, or if you have suggestions for titles. My apologies for not making each item on the list clickable, but I wanted you to get an idea of what we spend our money on.
Common Experience Project – The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
We will be doing a ‘read through’ of the Hunger Games, one of the titles suggested for the Common Experience Project (along with Feed and The Road). In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen becomes an unwitting competitor in a twisted and televised game of survival set in post-apocalyptic North America. It’s a good story, and I think it touches on a lot of ideas for discussion. Or use it as extra credit on your classes!
Library Winter Q Activities
Sustainability Group will address Common Experience theme with a FILM (title TBA) and a TED Talk and discussion.
TED talks?
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The Diversity Group will focus on International Music – more to come.
Special Collections has an ongoing exhibit at Lincoln Center of the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis collection. How cool is that!
Digital Initiatives is digitizing like mad; and the Alumni Association has invested in the scanning of Yearbooks, Course Catalogues and the Alumni Newsletter. Really work a look.
Research and Instruction
Please feel free to ask ANYTIME for research and instruction help.
- Come to the library with your class
- I can come to your class and do a quick presentation of whatever you need.
- Send your students to me (wochna@ohio.edu) – it gives me great pleasure to work with them.
- If you hit a research ‘bump’ – I’m happy to do some searching around.
Have a lovely holiday season!
Did you know we had…?
Today I was working on indexing the online resources (databases, films and ebooks) we have in the library with respect to my stuff: film, theatre and literature. It reminded me, and I want to remind you! Except for Penn & Teller and AK 100 all of these films are licensed with PPR – pay for performance rights. That means if you (or your students, or some student group you know of) wish to show them for an event, it is completely legal (though you cannot charge admission).
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
History of the American Cinema
descriptions and essential facts of more than 14,000 shows through 2007
Penn & Teller:Bullsh*t (all seasons)
A landmark fusion of feminism and formal experimentation that seeks to create a non-sexist film language. Invoking and challenging traditional interpretations of the Oedipus story as a movement from matriarchal culture to patriarchal order, the film also probes representation in film itself. (Script and Direction, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen).
Looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.
Broadway, A history of the American Musical
v. 1. The formative years (1886-1927) — v. 2. Broadway comes of age (1928-1950) — v. 3. Broadway thrives in the mid 50′s — v. 4. The Golden Era continues — v. 5. Blockbuster mark the end of the Golden Era
The Open Theater group in its last performance before disbanding. “Nightwalk” is a collective theater piece, the work of writers Jean-Claude van Itallie, Sam Shepard, Megan Terry, and Open Theater director Joseph Chaikin, as well as the actors.
Documentary about a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a bloody civil war, violent warlords and a corrupt Charles Taylor regime. Includes interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country.
“An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.”
Word is out: Stories of some of our Lives
Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation…this print is a restoration of the film’s original 133 minute release version. Preservation elements have also been created for the film’s 142 minute pre-release version.
Interviews with 26 diverse people who speak out about their experiences as gay men and women.
This documentary traces the work of Chinese-born artist and activist Lily Yeh, who uses art to create social change in Philadelphia’s inner city and in Korogochi, a village near Nairobi, Kenya.
Body memories is a wild and often comic ride, one man’s journey inward to find meaning in his life. He becomes an archeologist of the soul, digging through the layers of his past. Evocative images blend with a riveting performance that uncovers family secrets and buried traumas. The Bouffon, a creature who reflects the light and dark aspects of the protagonist’s journey, accompanies him on this outrageous odyssey. From Collective Eye.
“Tells the story of Margarita and Ramona de Saá. Born identical twins, the sisters grew up to become acclaimed ballerinas with the National Ballet of Cuba. Once inserparable, their relationship deteriorated as one sister left for America while the other embraced the Cuban Revolution. Mirror dance is the story of two women forever linked by birth and dance but struggling to overcome a deep rift between sisters and nations alike”
A tour through the yard, methods and mind of collagist and front yard artist Richard “Richart” Tracy of Centralia, Washington.
AK 100 – 25 films by Akira Kurosawa – Criterion Collection
25 feature films of Akira Kurosawa remastered by Criterion Collection
Have you seen our Digital Initiatives Page?
Have you seen our Digital Initiatives page? http://media.library.ohiou.edu/ (check out the yearbooks!)
Spring Lit Festival May 5 6 and 7
Spring Lit Fest begins Wednesday May 5.
For further info on all the various authors:
Robin Hemley, Mary Ruefle, George Saunders, Tim Seibles, Lydia Davis.
Alden Library has purchased many of their works (either here now or in process). Click on this spring lit 2010 bib for a complete listing.
If you are interested in all of our past participants and what they have written, have a look at this list.
