Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 - UGA Libraries
The Digital Library of Georgia was recently featured on ilovelibraries.org as the "Digital Library of the Week."
ilovelibraries is a digital newsletter for the American Library Association. It singled out the DLG's "Vanishing Georgia" collection for particular praise.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007 - Amy Watts
Yet another treasure has turned up in the Peabody Awards Archives! Those dollars spent in transferring two-inch videotape are worth every penny when we find things like this --
The (likely) earliest known televised appearance of actor Wayne Knight, best known as "Newman" on Seinfeld.
In "Patriotism", a 1971 ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007 - ngaire
Interested in Hispanic or Latino culture? Please join us at the Athens Regional Library (2025 Baxter Street, Athens) for this year's Hispanic Heritage month film series. All the films to be shown are from the Library's very own Media Collection. Here is the schedule:
(Tues) Sept. 11, 7-9 pm: Cuban Blood ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007 - UGA Libraries
Watch streaming video of the 1947 Sugar Bowl featuring UGA vs. North Carolina and the great half-back Charley Trippi. UGA won the game; sic 'em!
http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/ugarelated/sugarbowl.html
Brought to you by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives.
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Friday, April 20th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
BATTLE IN HEAVEN
dir. Carlos Reygadas
(2005, 98 min)
Tuesday, April 24
7:30 PM
SLC 171
Provocative, explicit, horrifying, uncompromising, yet unmistakably humanist, BATTLE IN HEAVEN is the film that Bruno Dumont should have made after L'HUMANITÉ.
—Acquarello, STRICTLY FILM SCHOOL
NOTE: GRAPHIC MATERIAL. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
The Latin American Film Series is free and open to the public.
If ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
THE SWAMP
dir. Lucrecia Martel
(2001, 103 min)
Tuesday, April 17
7:30 PM
SLC 171
By their nature, movies limit the senses to sight and sound, but Martel creates a world so hazy, dense, and oppressive that it has a tactile quality, hot as the jungle intruding on the estate's borders.
—Scott Tobias, ONION A.V. CLUB
The Latin ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
LAND IN ANGUISH
dir. Glauber Rocha
(1967, 106 min)
Tuesday, April 10
7:30 PM
SLC 171
LAND IN ANGUISH, an explosive study of art and politics in the third world, is Glauber Rocha's most personal film as well as his most brilliant contribution to political cinema.
—Robert Stamm, JUMP CUT
This is a blue card event.
The Latin American ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
On Saturday, April 7th three local film gems from the UGA Libraries’ Media Archives will be screened at the Athens-Clarke County Public Library. (More information
The Green Hand filmed in Athens in 1939 features UGA students and faculty along with numerous local residents. This tale of a juvenile delinquent ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
The complete list of 2006 Peabody Award winners has been released.
These winners will soon join past winners and other worthy materials in the Peabody Awards Collection housed at the UGA Libraries.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 - Amy Watts
Women's History Month Film Festival
Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies and the UGA Libraries' Media Department. A screening of the film, Stranger Inside. Discussion will follow.
Tuesday, March 27
7:00 PM
248 Student Learning Center
Contact: momolly@uga.edu
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