New Equipment in the Media Library Microtext Research Collection

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Media Library Film Display Coincides with the LGBT Film/Video Festival

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Flip Camcorders, Calculators, and Webcams Ready for Checkout in the Media Library

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New in the Media Library DVD Collection - Chinese Classic Animation: The Te Wei Collection.

Te Wei, born in Shanghai in 1915, began his career as a cartoonist, but quickly developed an interest in animation. He went on to devote his life and career to making "Chinese animation reflective of Chinese customs, tales and techniques." He was inspired by traditional ink and water drawings, landscape paintings, Peking opera and ancient folktales to create beautiful and uniquely Chinese films. Although he was prevented from working during the Cultural Revolution, he and his work are now considered national treasures. To honor Te Wei's 90th birthday in 2005, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio released this two-disc set featuring five beloved films, including Where is Mamma or Tadpoles in Search of Their Mom, ". . . a homage to the water-color paintings of Qui BaiShi."
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New Cameras Available for Check Out

The Canon FS 22 is a dual flash memory camcorder with 32 GB internal memory and 48x advanced zoom.  Movies and photos can also be saved to a commercially available SD or SDHC memory card, which is not included with the camera. The maximum recording time is 11 hr. 5 min. with SP and 20 hr. 50 min. with LP. An optional tripod is also available. Students and staff with a current UWM ID can check out a camera for two days, without the option of renewal. Detailed information is available on the Media Library web page.

- 11:51 AM

How Historians-in-Training Use the Media Library Microform Research Collections

Students in Prof. Margo Anderson's senior capstone history seminar, Incarcerated: Japanese Americans in World War II, use many library resources during the semester they spend researching and writing ". . . a piece of history." One heavily used primary source is the 35-reel microfilm set Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Part 1, Numerical File Archive. This Commission was created in 1980 and charged with reviewing facts surrounding the 1942 Executive Order 9066 ". . . authorizing the War Department to evacuate and incarcerate civilians 'as a protection against espionage and against sabotage.'" Thousands of written documents accumulated during the Commission's tenure have been collected from archives and libraries across the country and preserved for scholars in this valuable microfilm collection.Primary Sources in the UW-Milwaukee Microform Collection provides more information about this and other research collections.
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Coming Soon to Your Media Library DVD Collection

The Media Library will be adding titles to its foreign language film collection this fall and is expecting classic and contemporary Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish films to begin arriving within the next few months. The Italian language selection is particularly strong and includes: Amarcord, Cabiria, Don Camillo & The Return of Don Camillo, The Garden of the Finzi Continis, The Leopard, and Nights of Cabiria.

To track these and other new films, search PantherCat New Materials and check the recent arrivals displays in the Media Library.
- 11:15 AM

New Criterion Collection/Auteurs Online Film Festival

The latest FREE festival, FIRST FILMS, honors the work of six directors who did not toil in obscurity for years turning out forgettable films, but instead, in the words of the festival's curators, ". . . burst out of the gate with panache." Featured are Knife in the Water, Roman Polanski -- Fists in the Pocket, Marco Bellocchio -- La Pointe Courte, Agnes Varda -- Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsey -- Sweetie, Jane Campion (pictured above) -- I Shot Jesse James, Samuel Fuller.
- 3:29 PM

New in the Media Library DVD Collection - Films by UWM Video Artist Brandon Bauer

SIGNALDRIFT: a day under the city
Brandon Bauer & Franz Bucholtz

"A collaboration between video artist Brandon Bauer and electronic musician Franz Bucholtz, Signaldrift: A Day Under the City is the result of digital versus analog fighting for space within a dense structure of sights and sounds. Spliced video tape and noise samples accompany a pulsing rhythm that is synonymous of life in a Midwestern American city on the edge of a new era . . . "


HUNGRY GHOSTS
Brandon Bauer & Peter J. Woods

This collaboration between video artist, Brandon Bauer and experimental noise musician, Peter Woods includes several short films: Hungry and Psychoplasm, plus extras: The Spin Zone, Noise Collages, Endless Productivity, BAMN - By Any Means Necessary, Peter J. Woods Live at Six Flags Great American, and State of the Union.
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- 9:42 AM

New in the Browsing Collection - Poems for Film Fans

Little Visceral Carnival
Philip Jenks & Simone Muench

Several of the 23 poems in this chapbook by poet Philip Jenks and poet (and horror movie fan) Simone Muench should resonate with film lovers. Selections:


Dear Film Noir-
"We got you all wrong. You weren't the redhot rendevous
or the bloody handprint, but the ambulance, white
in black rain, pressed against algid armors. . ."
Dear Michael Myers-
"Witness the difference between kissing
& asphyxiation, between . . ."
Dear Godzilla-
"The parade didn't become you. You are . . ."

This book can be checked out at the Media Library, along with Halloween or choose from a great selection of noir including the documentary, Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light and the anthology, Classic Collection Film Noir Double Feature.
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