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African
Influences in Latin America
Modern
Art
| Callnumber: |
AM
CUB 05 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Great
Day in Havana |
| Mediatype: |
DVD |
| Description: |
The state of the arts in Cuba's capital city is examined in this
documentary by American filmmakers Laurie Ann Schag and Casey
Stoll. Cuban artists, filmmakers and musicians, including sculptor
Pedro "Pulido" Gonzalez, performance artist Tania Bruguera,
singer/songwriter Carlos Varela, and jazz musicians Ele Valdes
and Carlos Alfonso, discuss their work and reveal their personal
feelings toward Fidel Castro, the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and
their country's political climate. Also, Cuban expatriate filmmaker
Elio Ruiz looks at the large community of Cuban exiles throughout
the world. Narrated by Yareli Arizmendi. Directed by Laurie Ann
Schag/Casey Stoll, USA, 2000. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
83
mins. |
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| Callnumber: |
AM LA 14 SLIDE C 01
|
| Title: |
20th Century
Latin American Art |
| Mediatype: |
Slides |
| Description: |
25 slides of
works by sixteen artists including Rufino Tamayo, Fernando Botero,
Frida Kahlo, and Wifredo Lam, along with an essay in English
providing biographical information about the artists and descriptions
of their works.
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| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
25 slides |
| Callnumber: |
AM MEX 32 BK C 01
|
| Title: |
Myth and Magic:
Oaxaca Past and Present / Mito y magia: Oaxaca pasado y presente |
| Mediatype: |
Book |
| Description: |
The celebrations
for the centennial year of Palo Alto, California, and its Sister
City ties with Oaxaca, Mexico, included the art exhibition,
Myth and Magic: Oaxaca Past and Present. This guide includes
images from the exhibition and essays highlighting the cultural
heritage and traditions of Oaxaca and their continuing influence
upon artists and their work.
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| Language: |
Spanish and English |
| Length: |
96 pages |
| Callnumber: |
AM MEX 33 SLIDE C
01 |
| Title: |
Mexican Muralists |
| Mediatype: |
Slides |
| Description: |
A set of 50 color
slides of murals by José Orozco, Diego Rivera, David
A. Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo, among others, complete with
an introductory essay in English that places the works in their
cultural, political and historical contexts. The essay includes
information about each slide. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
50 slides |
| Callnumber: |
AM
MEX 34 BK C 01 |
| Title: |
Mexican Muralists:
Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros |
| Mediatype: |
Book |
| Description: |
Born of the twenties’
explosive revolutionary energy and culminating in the social consciousness
of the sixties, the Mexican mural movement represents one of the
most powerful and significant achievements in public art during
the twentieth century. This book follows the careers of the three
most prominent artists of the movement, José Clemente Orozco,
Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Beautifully illustrated,
this volume traces the lives and works of the legendary masters,
from their rural childhoods through the bloody years of the revolution
to artistic maturity and prestigious commissions from the post-revolutionary
Mexican government. With stunning color reproductions of all the
major murals, both those in Mexico and in the United States, the
book locates the paintings in their cultural background and explores
the artists’ achievements within the political framework of their
homeland. Mexican Muralists tells the story of the artists who
fostered an unprecedented marriage of politics and art, and in
so doing forged a new national identity. The author, Desmond Rochfort,
has been a professor of Art and Design at the University of Alberta,
Canada. ISBN 0-8118-1928-0 pb, 150 color and 74 b/w images, San
Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 1993. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
239 pages |
| Callnumber: |
AM VEN 09 VIDEO C 02
|
| Title: |
Los Presagios
de Moctezuma |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Los Presagios de
Moctezuma (Mexico-Venezuela 1995-1998) is a mostly visual documentray
exploring the photography and art of Paolo Gasparini, a contemporary
Venezuelan artist. |
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Length: |
40 min |
Aztecs
Curriculum Packets
| Callnumber: |
C LA 38 UNIT C 01 |
| Title: |
Temas Añejos: Recurring
Themes in Ancient, Colonial, and Modern Latin America |
| Mediatype: |
Curriculum Packet |
| Description: |
Syllabus, teaching resources, and
pedagogical tools compiled under the auspices of Iowa State University.
Materials available in English and Spanish, designed for K-12 instruction.
2000. |
| Language: |
English
and Spanish |
| Length: |
300 pages |
| Callnumber: |
C MEX 05 UNIT C 01 |
| Title: |
Language, Culture, and Content
Connections: Mexico and Zapotec Culture |
| Mediatype: |
Curriculum Packet |
| Description: |
Syllabus, teaching resources, and
pedagogical tools compiled under the auspices of Iowa State University.
Materials available in English and Spanish, designed for K-12 instruction.
2004. |
| Language: |
English and Spanish |
| Length: |
250 pages |
Economic
Development
| Callnumber: |
DEV JAM 01 VIDEO C
01 |
| Title: |
Life+Debt |
| Mediatype: |
DVD |
| Description: |
With twenty-five years of "help"
from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
and the World Bank intended to bring Third World nations such
as Jamaica into the fold of free market economies, these "restructuring"
policies have crippled Jamaica's efforts toward self-reliant development
while enriching the lenders. This scathing film is an unapologetic
look at the "new world order" from the point of view
of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy
officials. Featuring a dynamic reggae soundtrack and a searing
voice over based on text by Jamaica Kincaid, as well as interviews
with former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, Deputy Director
of the IMF Stanley Fisher and President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, Life and Debt portrays the relationship between Jamaican
poverty and the practices of the World Bank while driving home
the devastating consequences of globalization. Directed by Stephanie
Black, USA, 2001. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
86 mins. |
-
-
Education,
International
Dance
and Festivals
Folk
Arts
| Callnumber: |
FA LA 06 SLIDE C 01 |
| Title: |
Latin American Folk Art
|
| Mediatype: |
Slides |
| Description: |
A set of 25 color slides presenting
different forms of Latin American folk art, from textiles to the
plastic arts and a variety of types of painting, dating back to
the 1920s. Includes an essay in English on traditions in folk art
along with descriptions and information about each slide. |
| Language: |
|
| Length: |
25 slides |
Feature
Films
| Callnumber: |
FF COL 07 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Our Lady of the Assassins |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Barbet Schroeder's first film
away from Hollywood in 13 years also ranks as one of his best.
A writer returns home to Colombia, with the intention of taking
his own life, to find his hometown is a center for cocaine production
and gang warfare. He becomes involved intimately with a teenaged
gang member, but their relationship only brings the writer closer
to the tragic state of his homeland. Shot guerilla-style digital
video, on location in Colombia without permits, this film reaffirmed
Schroeder's directorial vitality. Colombia/France, 2000. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles. |
| Length: |
101 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF US 13 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
All Night Bodega |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
A rebellious teen fresh out
of jail (Tammy Trull) runs away from home to escape her domineering
mother and her new cop boyfriend. Alone in New York City, she
seeks refuge with an all-girl gang and comes face-to-face with
many unsettling and dangerous realities of life on the streets.
Named Best Film at the New York International Latino Film Festival.
Felix Olivier, USA, 2002. |
| Language: |
English with Spanish and French subtitles |
| Length: |
92 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF MEX 71 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
The Crime of Padre Amaro |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Gael Garcia Bernal plays Father
Amaro, a new priest assigned to the small rural town of Los
Reyes, Mexico. Upon arrival, he discovers that a conspiracy
of corruption, sex and lies has overtaken the local Catholic
Church. As he tries to separate himself from the other priests'
actions, he finds the temptation too great and is eventually
drawn in. The Crime of Father Amaro created much controversy
upon its release and many Catholic organizations in Mexico and
the United States called for a boycott of the film. It eventually
went on to become the highest-grossing Mexican film in its native
country. Carlos Carrera, Mexico, 2002.
|
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
120 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF BRA 64 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Madame Sata |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
The underbelly of 1930's Rio
de Janeiro comes alive in this portrait of Joao Francisco dos
Santos, the infamous Brazilian drag queen and criminal who was
as gifted with a knife as he was with a microphone. A snapshot
of Joao's early life, Madame Sata follows the performer from
his rough childhood on Rio's mean streets up through his imprisonment
prior to becoming a star. Stars Lazaro Ramos. Karim Ainouz,
Brazil, 2002.
|
| Language: |
Portuguese with English subtitles |
| Length: |
105 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF BRA 65 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Aguirre, the Wrath of
God |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
The astonishing Klaus Kinski
plays Don Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who leads his
soldiers into the Amazon jungle in an obsessive quest for gold.
The story is of the expedition's relentless degeneration into
brutality and despair, but the movie is much more than its plot.
Director Werner Herzog strove, whenever possible, to replicate
the historical circumstances of the conquistadors, and the sheer
human effort of traveling through the dense mountains and valleys
of Brazil in armor creates a palpable sense of struggle and derangement.
This sense of reality, combined with Kinski's intensely furious
performance, makes Aguirre, the Wrath of God a riveting film.
Directed by Werner Herzog, Germany/Peru, 1977. |
| Language: |
German with English subtitles |
| Length: |
100 min. |
| Callnumber: |
FF BRA 66 VIDEO C 01 |
| Title: |
City of God |
| Mediatype: |
DVD |
| Description: |
Celebrated with worldwide acclaim,
this powerful true story of crime and redemption has won numerous
prestigious awards around the globe. The streets of the world’s
most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro’s “City of God,” are a place
where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents
are lucky if they live to the age of 20. In the midst of the oppressive
crime and violence, a frail and scared young boy will grow up to
discover that he can view the harsh realities of his surroundings
with a different eye: the eye of an artist. In the face of impossible
odds, his brave ambition to become a professional photographer becomes
a window into his world and ultimately his way out. Directed by
Fernando Meirelles, 2003. |
| Language: |
Portuguese with English, Spanish,
and French subtitles |
| Length: |
130 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF MEX 72 VIDEO C
01 |
| Title: |
Herod's Law (La Ley de
Herodes) |
| Mediatype: |
DVD |
| Description: |
After peasants kill the corrupt
former Mayor, poor janitor Juan Vargas is appointed new Mayor
of a desert town in central Mexico. Although he tries to bring
the motto of the ruling party to town (modernity, peace and progress)
he realizes soon that there's nothing to do against corruption...
except to become corrupt. Step by step, helped by his pistol,
Juan Vargas becomes the law and the worst Major in the town's
history. Mexico, 2000. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles? |
| Length: |
120 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF ARG 31 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Nine Queens (Nuevas Reinas) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Welcome to a world of suspicion,
betrayal, and intrigue, where two small-time grifters team up
to pull off a big-time score involving a set of valuable counterfeit
stamps known as the Nine Queens. But when the rules of the con
game unexpectedly change, the two crooks find themselves pitted
against each other in this taut psychological thriller in which
neither the players, nor the audience, knows for sure who is playing
whom. Argentina, 2001. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles? |
| Length: |
114 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF COL 08 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Bolivar soy yo |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
A delirious satire whose humor
gives way to anguished political commentary, I am Bolivar spoofs
that distinctive Latin American genre, the telenovela. Santiago,
who plays the great revolutionary Simon Bolívar in Lovers
of the Liberator, is in trouble. He's so deeply committed to his
role that he's lost his own identity, and has come to believe
that he is, in fact, Bolívar. Santiago's folly is exploited
by a group of celebrity-hungry politicians, but the star's madness
is stronger than they are. His determination to realize Bolivar's
dreams leads to escapades too bizarre for even the most outrageous
telenovela. Colombia, 2002. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
93 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF MEX 73 VIDEO C
01 |
| Title: |
Without A Trace (Sin Dejar
Huella) |
| Mediatype: |
DVD |
| Description: |
Winner of the Latin American
Cinema Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Without A Trace
is a smartly written and visually sumptuous road movie about two
women on the run. Aurelia is a single mother who’s fled her factory
job and drug-dealing boyfriend; Ana is a smooth talking smuggler
of fake Mayan artifacts fleeing a corrupt cop. When they cross
paths at a truck stop on Mexico’s dusty northern border, they
decide to travel together to the Yucatan, knowing that their budding
friendship is built on secrets and deceptions. María Novaro
(Danzón, The Garden of Eden) wrote and directed. Mexico,
2000. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
125 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF MEX 74 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Sex, Shame & Tears
|
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
A hilariously tangled romantic
comedy, Sex, Shame & Tears follows the romantic and sexual
exploits of two couples who live in high-rise apartments directly
across from one another in Mexico City. Ana yearns for more intimacy
than her intellectual husband Carlos provides, while Andrea wishes
she could temper her husband Miguel’s extramarital escapades.
When Miguel’s ex comes to town at the same time that Ana’s ex
drops in, everyone’s friendships, fantasies, and love are tested.
Based on his hit play, writer/director Antonio Serrano’s honest
and insightful film was hugely popular in Mexico and won several
Ariel Awards. Mexico, 1999. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
109 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF MEX 75 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Dust to Dust (Por la Libre) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Winner of the 2001 Chicago Latino
Film Festival’s Audience Award, Dust to Dust is a gentle comedy
about family and friendship. It centers on the relationship between
cousins Rodri and Roco, who share a great love for their grandfather
but little else. When the grandfather dies, the family begins
to bicker over his will and forgets its two most important requests:
that the old man’s ashes be scattered over Acapulco Bay and that
a sum of money be delivered to his best friend. Rodri and Rocco,
much as they detest each other, take matters (and their grandpa’s
remains) into their own hands. Juan Carlos De Llaca directed.
Mexico, 2000. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
96 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF PER 08 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Fitzcarraldo |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Peru. Iquitos is a town isolated
in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the twentieth century.
On the outskirts, a few shacks are rotting in the mud. In the center
are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. It
is in this setting, rich in grotesque contrast, that Brian Sweeney
Fitzgerald—Fitzcarraldo, as the natives call him—has his dream of
bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great
celebration of Grand Opera. To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo
decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the
impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally
has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of
the river to the other. With the aid of a Indians bewitched by records
featuring the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Fitzcarraldo
fights fever, mosquitos and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible.
Starring Klaus Kinski and directed by Werner Herzog. Germany and
Peru, 1982. |
| Language: |
German with English subtitles |
| Length: |
157 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF ARG 32 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Burnt Money (plata quemada) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
When two gay thugs Angel and El
Nene join a plan to hold up an armored truck with a group of seasoned
gangsters, their love and loyalty to each other is tested. Angel
is wounded by police gunfire during the robbery, forcing El Nene
to kill them all in a fit of rage. Things become complicated when
they escape to Uruguay and the police threaten to torture the driver’s
moll if she doesn’t tell them where they are. With their pictures
plastered on the cover of every paper, drowning in drugs and alcohol,
the gang begins to bicker. Against his boss’s wishes El Nene leaves
the apartment and roams the streets where he meets a prostitute
called Giselle in whom he begins to trust. Director Marcelo Piñeyro
whose films have been both critically acclaimed and commercially
successful is one of the most important figures in contemporary
cinema in Argentina. His fourth film is a delicate balance of a
crime and love story. Burnt Money is based on a book by Ricardo
Piglia and was inspired by a famous bank robbery in Buenos Aires
in the 1960s. Argentina/France/Spain/Uruguay, 2002. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
125 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
FF US 14 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
The City (La Ciudad) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
La Ciudad is a narrative snapshot
of a side of New York that is rarely seen: the city of illegal
immigrants, the homeless, seasonal workers, sweatshops, and laborers
from Manhattan's Latin American neighborhoods. An intensive collaboration
with the immigrant community over a five-year period resulted
in a complex four-part narrative in which the subjects of the
film are its principal actors. Set in the present day, the film
follows four separate stories of immigrant life. A young laborer,
scavenging for bricks, is killed when a wall collapses; two teenagers
from the same village fall in love, then lose each other in a
housing project; a homeless father tries to enroll his daughter
in school; a young garment worker seeks justice in the sweatshops.
Uprooted, disenfranchised, exploited, and heroic in their strivings,
these characters and stories produce a fresh and serious new work
that is completely engaging. |
| Language: |
English & Spanish with English
subtitles |
| Length: |
88 mins. |
Geography
and Environment
History
(15th - 19th Centuries)
Contemporary
History and Politics
| Callnumber: |
HC CUB 24 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Free to Fly: The U.S.-Cuba
Link |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
This is the story of the struggle
to maintain links between the Cuban and American people. The U.S.
embargo on Cuba has severely limited the degree to which U.S.
citizens can legally travel to Cuba. This film begins with the
idea that families have the right to see one another and that
U.S. citizens have the constitutional right to go where they please,
arguing that such travel strengthens family ties, fosters cultural
exchange and builds understanding. Nonetheless, the film explains,
over the last 30 years, anti-Castro activists have engaged in
violent intimidation tactics of beatings, political assassinations,
and the bombing of businesses and even a plane to prevent the
expansion of U.S. travel to Cuba. Still, a variety of human rights
organizations, businesspeople, tourists, politicians of both the
Democratic and Republican parties, and ordinary Cuban-Americans
with family members on the island have continued to do all they
can to ensure access to Cuba. Directed by Estela Bravo. Documentary,
2004
|
| Language: |
English subtitles. |
| Length: |
33 minutes |
| Callnumber: |
HC CUB 25 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Nobody Listened |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
The brutal methods employed
by Castro's government to maintain a stronghold on the Cuban population
are chronicled in this revelatory documentary. Former Castro comrades
and Communist party leaders, writers, intellectuals, and supporters
of fallen Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista testify to the ill
treatment they received at the hands of Cuba's police force. Directed
by Jorge Ulla and Nestor Almendros, USA, 1988.
|
| Language: |
In English and Spanish with English
subtitles |
| Length: |
117 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
HC PAN 08 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Canal Zone: Part I of
II |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
CANAL ZONE is about the people
who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the
operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies
-- business, military, and civilian -- related to the functioning
of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The
film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special
canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, work of the military,
and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians.
Part I of II. Total Length of combined videos: 174 Min. |
| Language: |
English. |
| Length: |
70 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
HC PAN 09 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Canal Zone: Part II of
II |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
CANAL ZONE is about the people
who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the
operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies
-- business, military, and civilian -- related to the functioning
of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The
film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special
canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, work of the military,
and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians.
Part II of II. Total Length of combined videos: 174 Min. |
| Language: |
English. |
| Length: |
115 mins. |
Hispanics
in the United States
Humanities
Inca
Introductory
Materials
Contemporary
Indigenous Civilizations
| Callnumber: |
IND MEX 02 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
A Skirt Full of Butterflies |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
“Matriarchy?" "Tribe
of Amazons?" That is what explorers and other outsiders
romantically named the Zapotecs of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
in southern Oaxaca, Mexico. The Isthmus is a place where women
run the economy, where cultural identity is of utmost importance,
where "fat is beautiful" and where female ancestors
displayed ingenuity and spunk in times of war and political
resistance. Anthropologists call it a partnership society where
one is first a human being, an individual and only second and
incidentally a man or a woman. (It is a love poem to the Isthmus
women.) We hear from five women whose stories are interlaced
with scenes of work and the resplendent festivities, music,
poetry and paintings of the region. They show how valuable economic
independence, community, friendship, cultural pride and respect
for "women's work" are in giving a woman self-esteem
and a sense of purpose in life. They are also a testament to
what that sense of dignity contributes to the well-being of
society.Directed by Ellen Osborne and Maureen Gosling, Mexico,
1993.
|
| Language: |
English subtitles |
| Length: |
15 mins. |
-
-
- Language
| Callnumber: |
LAN
15 BK C 01 |
| Title: |
Diccionario
Ilustrado: Aymara, Español, Inglés |
| Mediatype: |
book |
| Description: |
This Aymara—Spanish—English dictionary is part of the collection
of Dictionaries of the Indigenous Languages of America, the purpose
of which is to provide a source of knowledge for people learning
these languages and their cultures. The dictionaries have proved
useful as complementary material in support of the teaching of
these languages in schools. More than two thousand entries in
Aymara with their Spanish and English translations with all terms
commonly used in La Paz, Bolivia. Entries are listed by semantic
fields. Authors: Juan Carvajal Carvajal, Arturo Hernández
Sallés, and Nelly Ramos Pizarro. Chile: Maitén Editores,
2001.
|
| Language: |
Aymara,
Spanish, English |
| Length: |
179
pages |
| Callnumber: |
LAN
16 BK C 01 |
| Title: |
Diccionario
Ilustrado: Rapa Nui, Español, Inglés, Francés |
| Mediatype: |
book |
| Description: |
This Rapa Nui—Spanish—English—French dictionary is part of the
collection of Dictionaries of the Indigenous Languages of America,
the purpose of which is to provide a source of knowledge for people
learning these languages and their cultures. The dictionaries
have proved useful as complementary material in support of the
teaching of these languages in schools. Many entries in Rapa Nui,
as it is commonly used on Easter Island, appear with their translations.
Entries are listed by semantic fields. Authors: Arturo Hernández
Sallés, Nelly Ramos Pizarro, et al. Chile: Pehuén
Editores, 2001. |
| Language: |
Rapa
Nui, Spanish, English, French |
| Length: |
152
pages |
| Callnumber: |
LAN
SPA 39 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Lo
Mejor Del Chapulin Colorado – Vol. 1 (The Best of El Chapulin
Colorado) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Relive the cult phenomenon of El Chalupin Colorado, Mexico's
most beloved and widely known superhero for over 30 years. Begun
in 1975, the El Chapulin Colorado television show, starring
Roberto Bolanos (Chavo Del 8), aired over 200 episodes and became
one of the most successful shows in Mexican history. Still airing
in reruns in over 10 countries including Mexico, Angola, and
the U.S., El Chapulin Colorado remains famous for his honesty
and good morals and values.
|
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Length: |
112
mins. |
| Callnumber: |
LAN SPA 40 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Lo Mejor Del Chapulin
Colorado – Vol. 2 (The Best of El Chapulin Colorado) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Faster than a turtle! Stronger
than a mouse! More noble than lettuce! It's El Chapulin Colorado,
Mexico's most beloved and widely known superhero for over 30
years. This second volume of Lo Mejor Del Chapulin Colorado
features some of the best sketches from the popular Spanish-language
television show starring Roberto Bolanos (Chavo Del 8).
|
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Length: |
100 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
LAN SPA 41 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Lo Mejor del Chavo del 8
– Vol. 1 |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
For over three generations,
El Chavo del 8 has charmed Spanish-speaking audiences the world
over with its wildly zany appeal. A Mexican television landmark
still on syndication to this very day, the series is a winning
formula of slapstick comedy and social commentary that is reminiscent
of The Little Rascals. El Chavo is an eight-year-old (played by
a full-grown adult male) who practically lives inside a barrel
in the courtyard of a community filled with loony but memorable
characters. This first volume of THE BEST OF EL CHAVO DEL 8 compiles
some of the series' best loved moments from its 30-year history.
|
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Length: |
112 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
LAN SPA 42 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Lo Mejor del Chavo del 8
– Vol. 2 |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
This second volume of the Best
of Chavo del 8 compiles some of the Mexican television comedy
series' best loved moments from its 30-year history, including
"Billetes de Loteria," "Clases de Box," "La
Casita del Chavo," "La Torta," "La Pelea de
Don Ramon," and "Clases de Guitarra."
|
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Length: |
66 mins. |
Pre-Columbian
Literature
Literature,
Modern
Literature,
Nineteenth Century
Markets
Music
| Callnumber: |
MU BRA 13 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Saudade Do Futuro |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
The music and rhythms of Sao Paulo,
Brazil, come alive in this fascinating look at the cantadores, troubadours
from Brazil's poorer northern regions who set the streets of the
giant city afire with their infectious sounds. Brazilian-born, Paris-based
filmmaker Cesar Paes follows the cantadores through the megalopolis
and documents their improvised musical poetry and its effects on
the city's population. Directed by Cesar Paes, France/Portugal/Brazil/Belgium,
2000. |
| Language: |
Portuguese with English subtitles |
| Length: |
94 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
MU
CUB 13 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Cuban
Hip Hop All Stars |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Come to the streetcorners of Havana, Cuba and kick it with the stars
of the exploding rap scene! Join Hermanos de Causa, Explosion Suprema,
Antonimo Consejo and many others as they take you through a world
never before seen outside this small but controversial island country!
With sharp lyrics, salsa-tinged beats, and candid footage exploring
issues such as poverty, racism and relationships, Cuban Hip Hop
All-Stars is a must have for everybody eager to connect with the
growing global hip hop movement. Includes new artists not seen on
the last Cuban Hip Hop video: Papo Record and Cuba's first straight
up R&B girl group Sexto Sentido. Also has extras: a concert
performance in New York City, more cyphers, and some impromptu rap
with rumba music in the street. |
| Language: |
Spanish
with English subtitles. |
| Length: |
60
mins not including bonus features. |
| Callnumber: |
MU JAM 02 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Heartland Reggae |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
An excellent documentary that attempts
to explain the peculiar rhythms and Jamaican culture that produced
reggae and pushed into an international arena reggae's most prominent
personality, the late Bob Marley. The documentary also features
Peter Tosh and nearly a dozen other reggae performers. Considered
the last filmed account of a Marley performance. Directed by Jim
Lewis, USA. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
90 mins. |
Maya
Religion
Social
Issues and Human Rights
| Callnumber: |
SI ARG 04 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Siete días en el
Once (Seven Days in Once) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
Rich in local flavor and colorful
characters, this documentary portrays daily life in the Once neighborhood
of Buenos Aires where Jewish immigrants have settled since the
early twentieth century. Today, they constitute one of the largest
and most important Jewish communities in Latin America. The film
provides a folk history of the neighborhood, its residents, and
its institutions. Although changing demographics, Argentina’s
economic crisis, and physical transformation have all altered
Once and its community, a defining moment in its history may have
been the deadly bombing of the community's Jewish mutual aid society
in 1994. The film and its lively subjects present everyday aspects
of adaptation and preservation in their attempts to maintain community
integrity and traditional culture. Directed by Daniel Burman,
Argentina, 2001. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
42 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
SI CHI 05 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
National Stadium |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
After a military coup overthrew
the elected government of Chile on September 11, 1973, the capital’s
National Stadium became the scene of the indiscriminate mass detentions
of more than 12,000 suspected dissidents. This film is the first
in-depth investigation into the events that took place in the
stadium, using testimony from more than 30 witnesses including
former prisoners, priests, soldiers, journalists, nurses, and
neighbors. This film opens with the 2000 presidential elections
held in the stadium, where one of the vote counters who was also
a detainee muses on the irony that in people were exercising their
democratic rights “in the same place where people were detained
and robbed of their freedom.” Moving back and forth through time,
the film juxtaposes historical footage with contemporary interviews
with survivors. Directed by Carmen Luz Parot, Chile, 2001. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
60 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
SI BRA 12 VIDEO C
02 |
| Title: |
Bus 174 |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
On June 12, 2000, a bus filled
with passengers was hijacked in Rio de Janeiro in broad daylight.
The kidnapper, Sandro do Nascimento, terrorized his victims for
four and a half hours as the whole country watched the drama broadcast
live on Brazilian TV. Based on an extensive research of stock
footage, interviews and official documents, Bus 174 tells 2 parallel
stories. Not only does it explain the dramatic events that unfolded
as the police tried, and failed, to handle the hijack situation;
but it also tells the amazing life story of the hijacker, revealing
how a typical Rio de Janeiro street kid was transformed into a
violent criminal because society systematically denied him any
kind of social existence. Both stories are interwoven in a such
a way that they end up explaining why Brazil, and other countries
with similar social and economic problems, are so violent. Directed
by José Padilha, Brazil, 2004. |
| Language: |
Portuguese with English subtitles |
| Length: |
120 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
SI ARG 05 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Spoils of War |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
An important film detailing the
struggle to discover the truth behind Argentine's "Dirty War"
of the late 1970s and early 1980s, where tens of thousands of students,
leftists, dissidents, and their associates "disappeared"
without a trace, most likely abducted, jailed or killed by the Argentine
military dictatorship. Confused and afraid, the families of the
missing gathered in secret, creating a secret code language to discuss
their trauma while under surveillance. Filmmaker David Blaustein
spent three years interviewing the group, called the "Grandmothers
of the Plaza de Mayo," who relate the brave actions taken when
confronted with the government's refusal to disclose the truth.
David Blaustein, Argentina/Spain, 2000. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
112 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
SI CUB 03 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Butterflies on the Scaffold
(Mariposas el el Andamio) |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
A rare documentary of a Havana
suburb transformed by a group of beautiful and charismatic drag
queens. The first and only "dragumentary" ever produced
in Castro's Cuba, the journey moves from on-stage action and backstage
preparation to insightful interviews with community leaders, the
performers and their families. Margret Gilpin/Luis Felipe Bernaza,
Cuba, 1995. |
| Language: |
Spanish with English subtitles |
| Length: |
74 mins. |
| Callnumber: |
SI
ELS 05 VIDEO C 02 |
| Title: |
Justice
and the Generals |
| Mediatype: |
VHS |
| Description: |
At a time of civil war in El Salvador -- when 75,000 people were
disappeared or killed -- four American churchwomen were abducted,
raped, and murdered. Many Salvadorans were tortured, and some lived
to tell their tales. Who was responsible for such atrocities? In
separate but related cases, two Salvadoran generals face trial in
American civil court. JUSTICE AND THE GENERALS investigates these
human-rights cases. |
| Language: |
English. |
| Length: |
86
min |
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