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  1. Hollywood Librarian, The: a Look at Librarians Through Film (2009)

    Director
    Ann Seidl
    Producer
    Ann Seidl
    Subject
    Film studies; Librarianship
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $275.00

    A blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, the film reveals the history and realities of librarianship as depicted in American movies. Interviews with actual librarians, intercut with...

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  2. Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009)

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 57 minutes), $125.00

    University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of the current economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within...

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  3. War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $195.00

    Norman Solomon analyses the strategies used by US administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. By highlighting the techniques of war propaganda,...

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  4. In Debt we Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts (2007)

    Director
    Daniel Schechter
    Subject
    Economics; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes)

    This hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans - college and high school students in particular - are being strangled by debt. Zeroing in on how the mall has replaced the factory as...

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  5. Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

    Subject
    Law; Librarianship; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $250.00

    In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression"—a startling comment on the way that...

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  6. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2006)

    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 62 minutes), $250.00

    Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, CLASS DISMISSED navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television’s beginnings to today’s sitcoms, reality...

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  7. Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs (2006)

    Director
    Ronit Ridberg
    Subject
    Business studies; Health Education; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 45 minutes), $250

    Exposes the insidious ways in which the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry uses, manipulates, and in some instances creates illness for capital gain. American media scholars and health...

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  8. Reel Bad Arabs (2006)

    Director
    Sut Jhally
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $250.00

    This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters....

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  9. Many Ways to See the World (2006)

    Subject
    Geography; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 30 minutes), $89.00

    Based on the book ‘Seeing Through Maps’, this DVD provides an exploration into the minds of twelve mapmakers and how their unique backgrounds, philosophies, values, and politics led each to select a...

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  10. Stuart Hall: The Origins of Cultural Studies (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 40 minutes), $95.00

    In this classic 1989 lecture world-renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall traces the social, intellectual, and institutional environment from which cultural studies emerged. An introduction to the issues...

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