Visiting Filmmaker Series – Spring 2012: Gerry Wurzburg – “Wretches and Jabberers” – Thursday, February 16 from 2:30 – 7:00pm

Gerry Wurzburg – “Wretches and Jabberers” Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012 – 2:30 – 7:00pm Location: Wechsler Theater in the Mary Graydon Center of American University Join us for a Master Class with filmmaker Gerry Wurzburg at 2:30 pm followed by a screening of the documentary “Wretches and Jabberers” and Q&A starting at 5:30 pm. […]

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Hot Docs: Feminist Philosophers: In Their Own Words now available in Media Services

Feminist Philosophers: In Their Own Words This series provides educators and scholars with in-depth, digitally filmed interviews with many of the scholars who generated and initially sustained feminist philosophy in North America. Susan Bordo – DVD 6924Sandra Bartky – DVD 6925Alison M. Jaggar: April 23-24, 2004 Chicago – DVD 9486Sara Ruddick: may 21-22, 2004 New […]

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Hot Docs: Corporations in the Classroom now available in Media Services

“As cash-strapped schools struggle to pay for books and other materials, corporate sponsors are offering promotions, sponsorships, and even free curriculum. The line between corporate social responsibility and back-door marketing opportunities is blurring … This tough documentary asks: Should our schools be free of commercial messages? Or should they be a microcosm of the outside […]

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Hot Docs: Coca Cola Case: A film about Coca-Cola and labor rights in Latin America now available in Media Services

In early 2000, two American lawyers in employment law, David Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth, embark on a crusade against the Coca-Cola empire. Indeed, in the offices of countries like Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey, it uses a paramilitary militia to remove or kill the workers trying to unionize. Denying their responsibility for these crimes, executives of […]

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Hot Docs: Africa is a woman’s name now available in Media Services

This documentary follows three very different African women working to create change at all levels of society: Amai Rose, a Zimbabwean housewife and businesswoman; Phuti Ragophala, a school principal in one of South Africa’s poorest communities; and Njoki Ngund’u, a human rights attorney and member of Kenya’s parliament. DVD 9240 Women Make Movies description: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c809.shtml

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Hot Docs: The Learning now available in Media Services

“The learning chronicles an emotionally charged year in the lives of four Filipino women as they leave their homeland to teach in Baltimore’s inner-city schools. With their increased salaries, they hope to transform their families’ impoverished lives back home. But the women also bring idealistic visions of the teacher’s craft and of life in America, […]

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Filmography – Jewish Studies

The Media Services contribution to the Library Subject Guides is a selective list of video holdings in the American University Library. Filmographies are created by doing multiple keyword searches in the ALADIN catalog to capture as many titles on a topic as possible. For complete up-to-date holdings (including VHS tapes) please refer to the library […]

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