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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!
Reserving Rooms in Alden Library Fac Commons (3rd floor)
Reserving Rooms in Alden Library Faculty Commons http://www.library.ohiou.edu/faqs/entry/121/ (or call me, I’m happy to help)
But you can use the rooms there for your studies, meet with students, meet with librarians. Just so you know.
It has a common area, 2 macs, 1 pc
1 big room (holds about 20 max)
2 smaller rooms (holds about 10max)
PC’s in each room.
Media Library Changes Location!
New South Wales, First Talkie, Setting up Equipment
THE MOVE WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN JULY 26 – AUGUST 9!
Sadly, for those of us in the 2nd floor Learning Commons, the Media Library will be changing its location. They will be moving up to the 4th floor and cohabiting with the Circulation Desk. The Media Library will still have a presence on the 4th floor and all services will remain the same. There will be PC’s for video searching, cool movie posters hanging up, Robin, Shari and their students will still be there to help you with reserves etc. — but we need to combine service desks (mostly due to student budget cuts) and this was a good solution.
BOOK FILMS FOR CLASSES BEFORE JULY 23!!!!!! BOOK FILMS FOR CLASSES BEFORE JULY 23!!!!!!
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.
