One of AU’s treasures that everyone should know about is the The Center for Social Media. The Center champions films and filmmakers that bring to light issues of injustice and inequality in society. It’s a project of the School of Communication and is directed by faculty member Pat Aufderheide. Among the events on their current […]
Continue reading2004 and 2005 Academy Awards nominees for Best Feature Documentary
While I’m at it here are the 2005 Academy Awards nominees for Best Feature Documentary. Media Services call numbers included. Born into Brothels DVD 1518 The Story of the Weeping Camel DVD 1543 Supersize Me DVD 955 Tupac Resurrection – Not yet ordered Twist of Faith – on order And the 2004 Academy Awards nominees […]
Continue reading2006 Academy Awards – Best Feature Documentary Nominees
Media Services call numbers included. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room DVD 1700 Murderball DVD 1630 March of the Penguins DVD 1622 Darwin’s Nightmare – Not yet ordered Street Fight – Not yet ordered .
Continue readingGreat news! We now have a DVD resurfacing machine. A Disc-Go-Pod, to be exact. Amanda tried it out on a few scratched and malfunctioning DVDs yesterday and they came out looking brand new. We were all impressed. We have been able to revive a heavily-used copy of Frida as well as our DVD copy of […]
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If you’ve never looked at the True Films site edited by Kevin Kelly, it’s worth a stop. He’s a former editor of the Whole Earth Review and one of the founders of Wired magazine and he loves documentaries. The videos he describes are categorized and limited to what is commercially available at reasonable prices. Even […]
Continue readingFeature Films Directors list
One of the coolest pages we have on the Media Services website is the Feature Films Directors list. This is a list of most of the feature films in our collection arranged by director.
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This blog will be used as a platform for American University Library Media Services staff to post announcements of interesting new additions to our collections; new databases and books that might be of interest to film studies people; new subject listings (mediagraphies) of our holdings; useful film-studies-related websites; and links to news items related to […]
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