Category Archive for Documentaries in the Library
November 12, 2007
Working for Democracy in the South and Appalachia: The Highlander Research and Education Center
UT Libraries Hosts Documentary Series and Exhibit to celebrate Highlander's 75th anniversary
The University of Tennessee Libraries is hosting a documentary series and exhibit to teach the university and local communities about the Highlander Research and Education Center, as it celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
All programs in the Documentaries in the Libraries series are held on Tuesday evenings in the Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium, from 7-9 pm. The programs feature a documentary film showing and discussion led by experts from Highlander, filmmakers, and UT faculty.
The exhibit, on display in Hodges Library outside the reference room, was designed by Sarah Lowe, associate professor of art, and Paul Chinetti, a senior in graphic design. The exhibit is a time line that highlights milestone events in the history of Highlander. It includes many photographs of Highlander students, including civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was, and is, to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice and environmental destruction.
The Highlander Center works internationally, but is located in New Market, Tennessee, 23 miles from Knoxville.
Films & Dates
September 18
You Got to Move
Discussion leader: Pam McMichael, director of the Highlander Research and Education Center
October 2
Uprising of '34
Discussion leader: Anne Mayhew, UT emeritus professor of economics
October 16
We Shall Overcome
Discussion leader: Tufara Waller Muhammed, cultural program coordinator of the Highlander Research and Education Center
October 30
Morristown
Discussion leaders: Bill Troy and Luvernel Clark
November 13
Up The Ridge
Discussion leader: Amelia Kirby, Up the Ridge documentarian
November 27
The Telling Takes Me Home
Discussion leaders: Guy and Candie Carawan, activists, musicians and educators, with their son, hammered dulcimer player Evan Carawan.
A reception will follow this event in the Mary E. Greer room of Hodges Library. All are welcome to attend.
Posted by Laura Purcell at 08:31 AM in Documentaries in the Library, Exhibits, Film Series
March 23, 2007
UT Libraries Focuses on Civil Rights in East Tennessee
UT Documentaries in the Library to present film about the Clinton 12
The UT Libraries will show the film Clinton and the Law: Desegregation in Clinton, TN with remarks from a Clinton High School student who lived through the experience as part of their Documentaries in the Libraries series. The event will be held on April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library and is free and open to the public.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools. In January 1956, Federal District Court Judge Robert Taylor was forced to overturn his own earlier ruling and mandated Clinton High School to desegregate by the fall semester of 1956.
On August 27, 1956, Clinton High School became the first public, all-white high school in the Southeast to enroll black students. In all, twelve black children enrolled in the high school that year, in the face of protests, violence and media scrutiny.
Alfred Williams, one of the "Clinton 12," will join in the discussion session after the film. Robert Willis, one of the last Clinton residents bussed to Austin-East High School in Knoxville and Alan Jones, pastor of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Clinton and an accomplished artist, will also participate. The evening's discussion will be led by Susan Williams (no relation) from the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN.
The film Clinton and the Law was produced by legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow as part of his See It Now series on CBS. Selections from You Got To Move, a documentary about working toward union, civil, environmental and women's rights in the South, will also be shown.
UT Libraries' Documentaries in the Library series is exploring aspects of Appalachia through film and video during the spring 2007 semester. More information about the series can be found at www.lib.utk.edu/mediacenter/docs/.
Posted by Laura Purcell at 09:48 AM in Documentaries in the Library
March 14, 2007
Documentaries in the Library: Appalachian Series
Discuss and discover how aspects of Appalachia have been explored through film and video at the University of Tennessee Libraries this spring, with its Documentaries in the Library series.
Thursday March 8 The Appalachians: Culture of Survival with discussion led by Jack Neely, Metro Pulse columnist.
Monday, March 19 Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Legacy (no discussion; attend Dr. John Finger's lecture on March 20 at Special Collections)
Wednesday, March 28 Fixin to Tell about Jack and Hamper McBee: Raw Mash with discussion led by Michael Lofaro, professor of English.
Wednesday, April 4 Clinton and the Law: Desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee and selections from You Got to Move with discussion led by Susan Williams from the Highlander Research Center and a special presentation by Alfred Williams, one of the Clinton Twelve.
Wednesday, April 18 Appalachian Impressions: Hiking the Appalachian Trail, with discussion led by Ken Wise, author of The Best Short Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Wednesday, April 25 Selections from Louie Bluie, Sprout Wings and Fly, and Nimrod Workman: to fit my own category with discussion led by Sean McCullough, professor of music.
All showings are free and open to the public and will be held in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library beginning at 7 p.m.
Visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/mediacenter/docs/ for more information.
Posted by Laura Purcell at 03:09 PM in Documentaries in the Library
August 19, 2005
Resistance: Fall 2005 Documentaries in the Library
PRESS RELEASE
August 16, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Sandy Leach
865.974.7922
leach@email.lib.utk.edu
http://www.lib.utk.edu
University of Tennessee Libraries to host RESISTANCE Film and Discussion Series
The Fall 2005 Documentaries in the Library series, Resistance, will focus on documentary films that address the theme of resistance.
The University of Tennessee Libraries invites the University and Knoxville community to discuss and discover how filmmakers have contributed to the diversity of resistance discourses through the documentary form. The first film, Battle of Algiers, will be screened on Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. in Hodges Library's Lindsay Young Auditorium. Although technically speaking not a documentary, but rather a “recreation,” this film vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950’s. Used as a training film for the Black Panthers and other proponents of guerilla warfare throughout the world, screened by the Pentagon prior to the U. S. occupation of Iraq, Gillo Pontecorvo's timeless film addresses not only the problem of resistance, torture and terrorism, but also the problems inherent in their representation. There will be a discussion of the film with Michael Kaplan, Professor of Architecture Emeritus.
Other showings will include
(Oct. 5) LA CUECA SOLA (2003) & NOW! (1965), discussion with Chris Holmlund, Lindsay Young Professor, Chair of Cinema Studies, Department of MFLL, author of Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies;
(Oct. 19) PUBLIC ENEMY (1999), discussion with Cynthia Fleming, Professor of History and author of Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson;
(Nov. 2) EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW (2004), discussion with Abdi Hussein, author of Edward Said: Criticism and Society;
(Nov. 16) THUNDER IN GUYANA (2003), discussion with Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
All films will be screened at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library on the UT Knoxville campus. Free and open to the public. For more information please visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/mediacenter/docs or contact Sandy Leach leach@email.lib.utk.edu / 974-7922.
Documentaries in the Library continues to build awareness of how independently-produced documentaries can comment on and contribute to the most important historical, artistic, social and scientific conversations of our time," said Troy Davis, Media Services Librarian. "By tackling the theme of resistance, we are also addressing the larger issue of how we talk about political struggles, racial and sexual politics, and the legitimacy, or not, of the uses of violence in the course of a struggle for ‘rights.’ At what point does resistance resemble terrorism? Is all resistance terrorism? Who decides? Am I a terrorist? Are you? These films seek to frame these questions within the context of particular struggles and within differing styles of representation.
Posted by admin at 09:05 AM in Documentaries in the Library
January 21, 2005
University of Tennessee Libraries to host Environmental Semester Film and Discussion Series
The University of Tennessee Libraries will host a FREE six-part viewing and discussion series as part of UT's Environmental Semester. As part of its Documentaries in the Library series, this spring's showings will focus on independently produced documentary films that offer a wide range of approaches and contributions to our understanding of nature, environmentalism, media literacy, and activism.
As part of UT's Environmental Semester, Documentaries in the Library invites the university and Knoxville community to discuss and discover how filmmakers have contributed to the diversity of environmental discourses through the documentary form. The first film, CultureJam: Hijacking Commercial Culture, will be screened on Wednesday, February 23, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. in Hodges Library's Lindsay Young Auditorium. This film looks at "culture jamming," the practices and semiotic tactics aimed at disrupting the coherence and rhetoric of media messages.
Other showings will include Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision (3/2), a visually-rich meditation whose central figure, Ernst Haeckel, epitomized the troubled intersection of scientific and artistic vision; The Corporation (3/16) is a critical look at the modern corporation that reveals its inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures; Amazon Journal (3/30) looks at the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest, but argues that the real tragedies are to be found in our misunderstanding of the region's indigenous peoples; Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives (4/6) presents an overview of our current food production system and looks at sustainable alternatives. The final session (4/27) will be devoted to the screenings of the winners and selected entries of UT Libraries' Recycled Video Contest. This festival will showcase the creativity of the UT community in "recycling" pubic domain video footage, much of the same footage presented in the series' other documentaries. All films will be screened at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library on the UT Knoxville campus. Free and open to the public. For more information please visit http://www.lib.utk.edu or contact Troy Davis at 865-974-4726, and/or troydavis@utk.edu.
Leading the discussions for this semester's series are: Dr. Chris Holmlund, Professor of French, Cinema Studies and Women's Studies (2/23); Dr. Neil Greenberg, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (3/2); Dr. John Nolt, Professor of Philosophy (3/16); Dr. Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (3/30); Dr. Donald Huisingh, Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development at UT's Energy, Environment and Resources Center (4/6).
"Documentaries in the Library continues to build awareness of how independently-produced documentaries can comment on and contribute to the most important historical, artistic, social and scientific conversations of our time," said Troy Davis, Media Services Librarian. "On the whole, these films challenge us to see the environment as something beyond ourselves, as something that's worthy of explanation, but also admiration. Each of these compelling films also enriches our appreciation of the diversity of approaches documentary filmmakers take in their creative attempts to present and represent reality."
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