Thank you, Gary, and all others for the suggestions! We do own a copy of Atomic Café which may serve our faculty member's needs. Wish The Cold War and Post-war Hopes, Cold War Fears were available. I did see some DVD purchase options on The Cold War, but I suspect they are all gray-market DVD-R conversions from the VHS.
Thanks again for the help! Rick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] FW: Cold War/Atomic History Well, unfortunately, some of the best stuff is now out of distribution (War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; The Cold War (narrated by Kenneth Branagh); Post-war Hopes, Cold War Fears (Bill Moyers)) The Atomic Cafe is still available and absolutely essential for demonstrating nuclear paranoia and disinformation There's a scad of other anti-Communist/Cold War propaganda available out there: check out Don't Be Sucker (available online at: http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947) As far as pop films: Invasion of the Body Snatcher and Invaders from Mars are two classic examples of alien invasion paranoia. The Manchurian Candidate is essential. Storm Center (1956): A small-town librarian (Bette Davis) is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves. (Bette as librarian...what could be better!) Lots of nuclear paranoia feature: Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe, Seven Days in May, On the Beach > Thought I'd pass this one on to the collective wisdom of the video-lib > group. I have a faculty member looking for film suggestions on the > following topic: > > Subject: Cold War/Atomic History > Is anyone aware of a good 1-2 hour film on early Cold War history and > politics? I'd like to give my ILA [i.e., freshman seminar] class some > more insight on the tensions surrounding the late 40's and early 50's. > I'd also be open to popular films which really come out of the fear of > communism and soviet aggression. > > Thanks in advance! > > Rick > > J. Richard Sayre > Library Director > Hewes Library > Monmouth College > 700 E. Broadway > Monmouth, IL 61462 > VOICE: 309-457-2192 > Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > URL: http://department.monm.edu/library > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, > acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current > and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It > is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for > video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between > libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
