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CONTENTAFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES ............................................................................................................................................ 2AFRICAN STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................................ 2AGING/GERONTOLOGY........................................................................................................................................................ 3AIDS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 3AMERICAN HISTORY............................................................................................................................................................. 3AMERICAN STUDIES............................................................................................................................................................. 5ANTHROPOLOGY .................................................................................................................................................................. 9ARCHITECTURE .................................................................................................................................................................. 10ART ........................................................................................................................................................................................11ART HISTORY .......................................................................................................................................................................11ART: 1900 - PRESENT.......................................................................................................................................................... 12ASIAN STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................................... 12BALLET: PERFORMANCE.................................................................................................................................................... 13CAREER GUIDANCE............................................................................................................................................................ 13CHICANO STUDIES ............................................................................................................................................................. 16CINEMA STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................................ 16CLASSICAL MUSIC: DOCUMENTARY................................................................................................................................. 17CLASSICAL MUSIC: PERFORMANCE ................................................................................................................................17COMEDY FILMS ................................................................................................................................................................... 18CRIMINAL AND LAW ............................................................................................................................................................ 18CULINARY ............................................................................................................................................................................ 19CULTURAL STUDIES ........................................................................................................................................................... 21DANCE: PERFORMANCE .................................................................................................................................................... 22DISABILITES......................................................................................................................................................................... 22EASTERN EUROPE ............................................................................................................................................................. 23ECO/GREEN......................................................................................................................................................................... 24ECONOMICS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 24ENVIORNMENTAL STUDIES ............................................................................................................................................... 24FAMILY RELATIONS AND PARENTING ............................................................................................................................... 25FASHION............................................................................................................................................................................... 25FORMING & FABRICATING ................................................................................................................................................. 26GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES .............................................................................................................................................. 26HEALTH CARE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE............................................................................................................................ 28HISTORY............................................................................................................................................................................... 29HUMAN SEXUALITY............................................................................................................................................................. 30IDENTIFICATION EQUIPMENT & SYSTEMS....................................................................................................................... 30ISLAMIC STUDIES ............................................................................................................................................................... 30JEWISH STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................................ 31LABOR STUDIES.................................................................................................................................................................. 31LANGUAGE ARTS ................................................................................................................................................................ 32LASER................................................................................................................................................................................... 32LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................ 32LITERATURE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 33MEASUREMENT, INSPECTION & TESTING ....................................................................................................................... 33NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES.............................................................................................................................................. 33OPERA: PERFORMANCE .................................................................................................................................................... 34POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY ............................................................................................................................................... 37POLITICAL SCIENCE ........................................................................................................................................................... 37PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY ..................................................................................................................................... 39RELIGION ............................................................................................................................................................................. 39SCIENCE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 39SOCIOLOGY......................................................................................................................................................................... 39THEATER, PERFORMING ARTS ......................................................................................................................................... 40URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING................................................................................................................................... 40WATER.................................................................................................................................................................................. 40社會人文 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 41教育學程 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 41藝術欣賞 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AFRICANAMERICANSTUDIESGAME OF CHANGE, THEDirected by Jerald HarknessThe NCAA's Men's Basketball tournament,better known as March Madness, hascreated some of the greatest moments insports history. In 1963, a game took placethat literally changed the fabric ofAmerican society. The Loyola of ChicagoRamblers basketball team started fourAfrican-American players, and faced thesubsequent pressure of overt nationwidediscrimination and racism.Nearly 700 miles to the south, the all-whiteMississippi State Bulldogs basketball teamfaced a discrimination of its own. Afterwinning three consecutive SECChampionships, they were routinelydenied participation in the NCAAtournament because of an unwrittenMississippi law that prohibited competitionagainst African-American players. At therisk of losing their jobs, coach BabeMcCarthy and university president Dr.Dean Colvard took a stand and challengedthe system to allow thischampionship-caliber basketball team thewell-earned right to play for an NCAAnational championship.The Game of Change reaches far beyondsports, demonstrating this particularevent's significance in the battle for raceequality in a largely segregated country.This is the story of two seemingly differentteams of young men who wereunknowingly thrust into the harsh spotlightof racism in America who only wanted anopportunity to compete as equals on thebasketball court, and who did so withrespect and dignity.Item no. : PE05970648Format : DVDDuration : 60 minutesCopyright : 2008Price : USD 295.00ORDER OF MYTHS, THEDirected by Margaret BrownThe first Mardi Gras in America wascelebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In2007, it is still racially segregated.Filmmaker Margaret Brown (Be Here toLove Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt),herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts usinto the parallel hearts of the city's twocarnivals to explore the complex contoursof this hallowed tradition and the elusiveforces that keep it organized alongenduring color lines.With unprecedented access, Brown tracesthe exotic world of secret mystic societiesand centuries-old traditions and pageantry;diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous,hand-sewn gowns and trains, surrealmasks and enormous paper mache floats.Against this opulent backdrop, sheuncovers a tangled web of historicalviolence, power dynamics and intertwinedand interdependent race relations.It is the central coronations of the MobileCarnival Association (MCA), an all-whiteorganization, and the Mobile Area MardiGras Association (MAMGA), an all-blackorganization, which provides the centralnarrative through which we view thefestivities. Each organization has its ownseparate parades, balls, and royal court,complete with King, Queen, Knights andLadies. Like foreign dignitaries who willsoon return to their own separate worlds,the MCA and MAMGA Kings and Queenscross the color divide only briefly to visiteach other's event.The Order of Myths comes from the nameof the oldest mystic society in Mobile. Thechief symbol of The Order of Myths is ajester named Folly chasing the skeletalfigure of Death around the broken columnof the South. Using this symbol as acentral metaphor, this remarkably assureddocumentary illuminates the complexity ofrace relations in the 21st century.Reviews• "Brilliantly captivating. An invaluableportrait of us-and-them America, asmart, generous, poignant, quietlydisturbing movie." – Robert Abele, LATimes• "An intimate excavation of the historyof American racism." – Logan Hill,New York Magazine• "Three and a half stars. Highlyrecommended." - Video Librarian• "Brilliant. Heartbreaking. A winner!" –David Edelstein, New York Magazine• "A haunting and importantdocumentary about modern-dayAmerican segregation. It is the kind ofilluminating work that sendsaudiences stumbling home in awide-eyed state of astonishment."– S.James Snyder, The New York Sun• "The Order of Myths is the bestdocumentary in ages, and one of thebest films of the year."– Jeff Reichert,Reverse Shot• "Engrossing. This deftly made portraitis provocative, but not vitriolic. As Sen.Barack Obama makes history… it'sunsettling to realize racism's uglyshadow continues to loom large." –Claudia Puig, USA?Today• "Fascinating. A beautifully restrained,intelligent documentary about howcomplicated race relations can be inthe modern South." – Stan Hall,Portland Oregonian• "Quietly shocking, The Order of Mythsis a deft, engrossing cross-section ofMobile life, heavy on local color andinsight." – Vadim Rizov, The VillageVoice• "Extraordinary. It may be one of thebest films ever made about theparadoxes and complexities of thepostwar South. Hugely entertaining."–Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene• "Highly sophisticated nonfictionfilmmaking…. Brown has managed, ina fleet 80 minutes, to uncover quite alot about (obviously) America'sentrenched racism and (perhaps notso obviously) why our presumablymodern sensibilities allow for itscontinuity." – Michael Koresky,Indiewire• "One of the Ten Best Films of theYear"- Boston Globe, Salon.com,Jonathan RosenbaumNotes• Nominee, Best Documentary,Independent Spirit Awards, 2009• Nominee, Truer Than Fiction Award,Independent Spirit Awards, 2009• Official Selection, Sundance FilmFestival, 2008• Official Selection, SXSW Film Festival,2008• Official Screening, Organization ofAmerican Historians AnnualConference, 2009• Official Selection, Full Frame FilmFestival, 2008• Official Selection, True/False FilmFestival, 2008• Official Selection, Edinburgh FilmFestival, 2008Awards• Winner, Cinematic Vision Award,Silverdocs Film Festival, 2008• Winner, Youth Jury Award, SheffieldDoc/Fest, 2008Item no. : AB05970720Format : DVDDuration : 80 minutesCopyright : 2008Price : USD 395.00AFRICAN STUDIESMILKING THE RHINOThe promise of community-basedconservation in Africa.Directed by David E. SimpsonA ferocious kill on the Serengeti...direwarnings about endangeredspecies...These cliches of naturedocumentaries ignore a key feature of thelandscape: villagers just off-camera, whonavigate the dangers and costs of livingwith wildlife on a daily basis. When seen atall, rural Africans are often depicted as theproblem - they poach animals andencroach on habitat, they spoil our myth ofwild Africa.MILKING THE RHINO tells a morenuanced tale of human-wildlifecoexistence in post-colonial Africa. TheMaasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia'sHimba - two of Earth's oldest cattlecultures - are in the midst of upheaval.Emerging from a century of "white man________________________________________________________________________________________________________Email: inquiry@learningemall.comLearning Rendezvous LimitedWebsites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk2
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