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Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
By returning to the roots of Islam and understanding how societies have found justification for their treatment of women within Islamic sources, this thoughtful and far reaching film is an essential resource that debunks myths about women and Islam. Renowned Muslim feminist scholars and journalists, including Asra Q. Nomani, Mona Eltahawy, Azadeh Moaveni, Dr. Amina Wadud, Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl and Asma Gull Hasan, detail how from early on very different...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
This film was a project that was supervised by the British Ministry of Information and the American Office of War Information. And during that summer of 1945 some of the documentary editing was done under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.. "At the time we found the film, it was not entirely clear what role Hitchcock played in its development," says David Fanning, executive producer of FRONTLINE. "Moreover, one reel of the original six, shot by the...
86) Hope builders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The future of the world is perhaps being played out in an elementary school in Quebec, where a teacher is implementing a new teaching method (Action Research) aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges. During a very special school year, the students of Dominique Leducs grade six class are learning to identify, rigorously analyze and resolve a problem that exists in their world. They are also learning about the uncertainty faced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A collection from ECU's archive of documentaries and teaching films, this programme provides an opportunity for microteaching of the psychomotor skills necessary for clinical practice to ensure a smooth transition to the clinical practice setting.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on Edward Said's influential book, On Orientalism, this engaging and lavishly illustrated video examines the context within which he conceived the book, as well as his cultural analysis of media representations of the Middle East and Islam. In a post-9/11 world, this video provides an indispensable perspective.
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a five year journey to examine America’s growing obsession with physical beauty and perfection, unearthing its origins and deadly risks.. In America the Beautiful we see how increasingly unattainable images contribute to the rise in low self-esteem, body dismorphia, and eating disorders for young women and girls who also happen to be the beauty industry's largest consumers.. In almost 40,000 media messages a year,...
91) Demons
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Humans have always sought justification for the presence of evil in the world. Demons, in their various incarnations through religious descriptions, folklore, and literature, are often cited as the source..
92) Manga Mad
Publisher
Ray Castle Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Comics and anime are the biggest pop culture in Japan. Manga are for adults, not only children. Politicians, office ladies and salarymen read them. Racy sexual and violent fantasies, beyond censorship, are given free reign in the world of manga. Obsessive fans are called Otaku. Electric town, Akihabara, Tokyo, comic capital of world, is their virtual reality wonderland. Comiket at Tokyo Big Site is the biggest comic market and cosplay gathering.
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A human, and humorous, look at New Jersey’s WFMU, a radio station that refuses any programming boundaries. Most of its disc jockeys are unpaid volunteers, working for their love of surprising, spontaneous radio. They play everything from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to every form of rock and roll, experimental music, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, hand-cranked wax cylinders, gospel, Inuit marching bands, R&B, C&W, radio improvisations, spoken-word...
94) Witchcraft
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Witches in popular culture have a particularly insidious origin – religious persecution. In later years, the image of a witch has evolved – both through pop culture, and greater religious freedom..
95) Vampires Part I
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The presence of vampires throughout history, culminating in the writing of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, literature’s most famous bloodsucker..
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary tells the dramatic and emotional story of a Jewish father who journeys with his two ultra-orthodox sons back to Poland to try to find the Christian farmers who hid their family from the Nazis. His hope is to instill in his insulated and narrow-minded sons the power of interfaith tolerance and trust.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from? The primal fears of our ancestors fueled the stories that lived on through legend, page, and screen. Join us as we peer into the histories of some of the most prevalent creatures in pop culture, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts. Come and meet the Monsters Among Us, if you dare..
99) Channels of War
Publisher
Deep Dish TV
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The mainstream television networks have fanned the flames of war, and have profited from doing so. This program looks at how the U.S. corporate media has sanitized our field of vision. Part ten of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.
100) Vampires Part II
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The popularity of Dracula cemented the vampire into fiction and popular culture, and was supplemented by the invention of cinema. Between Dracula and its not-so-subtle clone Nosferatu, vampires became a horror movie staple..
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