Exhibit -- Fall 2009

Featured DVD of the Week

Katyn 

d. Andrejz Wajda

Originally produced in 2007. 

Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyń in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the massacre gets suppressed.

In Polish with English subtitles. 

Butler Media Res 

DVD10264

Butler Media (Circulating) 

DVD10265

SoA Workshops

 

Resources for Film Studies and Performing Arts

These one-hour sessions provide an introduction to the vast selection of print, non-print (DVDs, CDs), image and electronic collections for film and performing arts at Columbia.

 

Sessions:

September 18 @ 2pm

September 23 @5:30pm

October 29 @2:30pm

 

All sessions will be held in 306 Butler.

Please RSVP -- nef4@columbia.edu

Butler Media -- New Circulating Titles

In September 2008, Butler Media received a gift of 17,500 DVDs from Kim's Media upon the closing of the uptown store. The collection is being added to Butler Media as the basis for a circulating collection.

Titles circulate to all Columbia affiliates -- 2 titles, 3 days. Faculty may borrow titles for one week.

To find circulating titles in CLIO:

Use Pre-Set Limits (located on the right under title, author box).

Select -- Library Location: Butler Media (Circulating)

Be sure to click on Set Limits and then return to search box.

Pre-set limits will work on keyword and title searches only.

Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S.

Now in DVD, this anthology provides an excellent introduction to media arts. Included are more than 16 hours of video representing TV news and films originally produced in the 197o's and 1980's. Featured are seminal works that range from performance-based, feminist, documentary, and conceptual projects.

Butler Media Collection

DVD7417

SoA Research -- Workshop

SoA Research
February 11 or February 18
2 p.m.
306 Butler Library

Do you want to find plays, screenplays, journal articles, images, movies, reviews, or biographies? Would you like to read a screenplay -- online? Are you interested in early cinema history? Do you need to find information about how people dressed in 19th century New York City? Are you looking for a book on design? Would you like to search Google more effectively?

If the answer is yes, please attend one of these informal, two-hour hands-on sessions. We will review a wide range of resources with a special focus on film and performing arts related materials.

Seats are limited -- please RSVP by sending email to nef4@columbia.edu

Featured Resource

History of the American Cinema, is now available electronically through the Gale Virtual Reference Collection. This essential resource, also available in print, documents American film history decade by decade currently through the 1980s.

In addition, Gale Virtual Reference includes The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the Past, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakres, Movies Made for Television: 1964-2004, and Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film.

Link to Gale Virtual Reference

Featured DVD of the Week

Recently added to the Butler Media Collection, the beautifully crafted box set entitled Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films. This set was created in celebration of Janus Films and fifty years as the preeminent U.S. distributor of foreign and classic films.

Butler Media Collection
DVD7723

Featured Resource

In microfilm, Cinema Pressbooks provide a unique source for production histories from the original studio collections of United Artists (1919-1949), Warner Brothers (1922-1949), and Monogram Pictures (1937-1946).

Located in the Periodical and Microfilm Reading Room
Butler Library Room 401

Featured Resource

The Griffith Project, begun in 1996, is now complete at 12 print volumes. This work documents with commentary more than six hundred films directed, written, produced and supervised by D.W. Griffith. The authors are specialists and scholars of silent cinema.

Available from Butler Library
PN1998.3.G76 G76 1999