March 28, 2005
Amazon Journal (Documentaries in the Libraries Series)
Amazon Journal, fourth film in Documentaries in the Library, part of
Environmental Semester, 7 pm, TONIGHT, Wed, Mar 30, Hodges Library's
Lindsay Young Auditorium. Dr. Dawn Duke, UT assistant professor of Spanish
and Portuguese, will lead discussion. Other showings: Fed Up! Genetic
Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives (4/6);
and screenings of winners of UT Libraries' Recycled Video Contest (4/27).
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:51 AM
March 17, 2005
Amazon Journal -- Documentary Viewing
Amazon Journal
March 30, 2005
7:00 PM
Lindsay Young Auditorium
Hodges Library
Discussion with Dr. Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. Dr. Duke specializes in issues related to the literature and culture of Cuba and Brazil. Her main areas of research include women’s writings, and the Afro-Hispanic, and Afro-Brazilian experience.
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:23 PM
March 01, 2005
Documentaries in the Library
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
March 2 , 2005
7:00 PM
Lindsay Young Auditorium
Hodges Library
Discussion with Dr. Neil Greenberg, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 06:19 AM
February 21, 2005
Documentary Series: Culture Jam this Wednesday
Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture
February 23, 2005 :: 7:00 PM :: Lindsay Young Auditorium :: Hodges Library
Discussion with Chris Holmlund, Lindsay Young Professor; French, Cinema Studies and Women's Studies. Dr. Holmlund's areas of interest and scholarship include contemporary film and video, including documentary, avant-garde, independent and mainstream feature work produced in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Francophone Africa.
Recent publications include:
>> 2004. Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream, ed. Chris Holmlund and Justin Wyatt. London and New York: Routledge. (Primary editor.)
>> 2002. Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies. London and New York: Routledge.
>> 1997. Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary, ed. Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. (Primary editor.)
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:41 PM
January 25, 2005
Documentaries in the Library
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."
Posted by Donna Braquet at 08:57 AM