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Continue readingSelected New Home Use Titles
Dead Man’s Shoes – HU DVD 6540The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – HU DVD 6458Adventureland – HU DVD 6464Chronicle Of A Disappearance – HU DVD 6465Beaufort – HU DVD 6466Drawn From Memory – HU DVD 6467Yellow Asphalt – HU DVD 6468Lemon Tree – HU DVD 6469Fast Times At Ridgemont High – HU […]
Continue readingNetflix- window to our souls
The New York Times website has a great interactive map of Netflix data which shows the popularity of various movie rentals across zip codes. They’ve mapped twelve major urban areas including DC. The maps reveal unexpected patterns. Why does I Love You Man, the Paul Rudd tour de force, stand out in zip code 20057 […]
Continue readingFilm/Television Studies library guide now online
Joe Bob says: Check it out! Here!
Continue readingA History of Banned and Censored Films – courtesy of UCal Berkeley Library
This filmography created by media librarian Gary Handman has many titles that are also available in the AU collection. It’s fun to browse through as it’s loaded with notes on where and why a film was banned. Sample entry: The Last Picture Show(1973) Director, Peter Bagdanovich. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, […]
Continue readingWill Ferrell is Number One – Forbes’ Most Overpaid Actor List
Forbes looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film, which it then compared with the salaries […]
Continue readingIn case you were wondering: How Clean are the Netflix DVDs and Mailers?
Turns out, they are fairly clear of bacteria and disease… Full article here: http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009/11/how-clean-are-the-netflix-dvds-and-mailers.html
Continue readingSo you want to research a film or filmmaker: A user’s guide to Film Studies research databases at American University
This database user’s guide has been updated with Atom Egoyan used as a sample search. Each entry briefly describes a given database’s value for film studies research. Here’s an example: Academic Search Premier – 237 hits; a majority as full-textThis is a major cross-disciplinary database with a large portion of full-text content. A great resource […]
Continue readingMedia Services has Sound Effects Available for Checkout!
Media Services has thousands of sound effects and hundreds of musical effects available for enhancing student projects, films, and presentations. Up to six CDs at a time can be checked out of the library for three hours for AU student production work. Students can also use them here in the Digital Media Studio. Browse our […]
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