Barbara! Just curious: *Brokeback Mountain* is categorized as an Asian
film because Ang Lee comes
from Taiwan. Do you handle in the same manner all the many films made
by all the many directors who have
come from abroad and established themselves as Hollywood directors? Are
*Psycho* and *Vertigo* classed as British
films because Hitchcock came from the U.K.? *The Apartment* and *Sunset
Boulevard* classed as Polish cinema because
Billy Wilder was born in (what is now) Poland? And all the American
films directed by Fred Zinnemann, Ernest Lubitsch, Fritz
Lang, Douglas Sirk, Otto Preminger, etc., etc.? I don't know but some
people might find it /amusant /that Zinnemann's* quintessential*
American musical *Oklahoma!* might be considered to be an Austrian movie...?
Just curious....
Cheers,
Anthony
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Social Studies and Arts & Humanities Librarian
Von KleinSmid Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
(213) 740-1190 antho...@usc.edu
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Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou."
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Bergman, Barbara J wrote:
Matt,
We have our DVDs and videos classed by LC numbers.
Pros: does get them ordered by subject, making them browseable. Con: Yes, call numbers tend to be too similar. Would not recommend LC for closed stacks.
Something we (meaning: the AV cataloger, not me) did here was to class the feature films within the literature schedule, using Director as Author.
You still have a whole lotta P's, but it spaces them out and away from PN1997.
*Organization is by Country of origin of the director, Director, Title.
Result is that films are essentially sorted by language and then alphabetized by director's name. (Occasional goofiness: Brokeback Mountain is filed with the Asian films because Ang Lee directed.)*
TV shows are still clustered together.
Another option for you might be to use something like the ANSCR music
classification system --
It uses abbreviations to class by genre and then artist/composer.
Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State
University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu
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