News & Events
Film Series Fall Schedule
09/01/2005
Herman B Wells Library
Media Literacy Film Series & Brown Bag, Fall 2005
Grab a seat for this fall's selection of films.
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential (2004, 80 min)
Karl Rove is Bush's closest advisor, the brain behind the curtain of today's presidential politics. Rove has raised a disturbing question for Americans: Who really runs the country?
Host: Robert Goehlert, Librarian for Economics, Criminal Justice, Political Science and Global Studies
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005
Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Coming Attractions:
Larry v. Lockney (2002, 56 min)
The film explores the case of Larry Tannahill and his struggle as the only parent against the Lockney, Texas school board's mandatory drug testing policy. It examines all sides of the issue in this landmark case that pitted one man against his friends and neighbors.
Host: Monique Threatt, Librarian for Media, Communication & Culture.
Date: January 2006
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Undetectable: The New Face of AIDS (2001, 56 min)
The film follows six women and men, straight and gay, of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, over a three-year period as they deal with the disease AIDS and the new multi-drug therapy.
Host: Monique Threatt, Librarian for Media, Communication & Culture.
Date: March 2006
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Crash (2004, 113 min)
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters and issues about abuse, society and race, racism, and ethnic groups.
Host: Grace Jackson-Brown, Head, African American Cultural Center Library, Journalism Library.
Date: April 2006
Time: TBA
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Previous Showings:
Declining By Degrees (2005, 120 min)
This documentary follows 30 students & teachers, and explores the road between admission and graduation. The film exposes the disappointment, disorientation, and deflation that so many college students feel, and the struggles they face regardless of the schools they choose to attend.
Host: Diane Dallis, Interim Head, Information Commons
This event is co-sponsored by the Library Instruction Committee.
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
USA Patriot Act: Are Our Civil Liberties Really at Risk? (2004, 60 min)
The League of Women Voters in Santa Clara, California, hosts a group of panelists who discuss the pros and cons of the U.S. Patriot Act and its effect on librarians and library users.
Host: Lou Malcomb, Head, Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services (GIMSS)
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, 129 min)
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
Host: Lou Malcomb, Head, Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services (GIMSS)
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
In the Name of the Father (1993, 133 min)
Based on a true story, a small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated and imprisoned for an IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London.
Host: David Oldenkamp, Librarian for International Studies
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2005
Time: Noon - 2:15 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Sponsored by IUB Libraries Media Services.
For more information, contact Monique Threatt, 855-9857.
Media Literacy Film Series & Brown Bag, Fall 2005
Grab a seat for this fall's selection of films.
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential (2004, 80 min)
Karl Rove is Bush's closest advisor, the brain behind the curtain of today's presidential politics. Rove has raised a disturbing question for Americans: Who really runs the country?
Host: Robert Goehlert, Librarian for Economics, Criminal Justice, Political Science and Global Studies
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005
Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Coming Attractions:
Larry v. Lockney (2002, 56 min)
The film explores the case of Larry Tannahill and his struggle as the only parent against the Lockney, Texas school board's mandatory drug testing policy. It examines all sides of the issue in this landmark case that pitted one man against his friends and neighbors.
Host: Monique Threatt, Librarian for Media, Communication & Culture.
Date: January 2006
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Undetectable: The New Face of AIDS (2001, 56 min)
The film follows six women and men, straight and gay, of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, over a three-year period as they deal with the disease AIDS and the new multi-drug therapy.
Host: Monique Threatt, Librarian for Media, Communication & Culture.
Date: March 2006
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Crash (2004, 113 min)
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters and issues about abuse, society and race, racism, and ethnic groups.
Host: Grace Jackson-Brown, Head, African American Cultural Center Library, Journalism Library.
Date: April 2006
Time: TBA
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Previous Showings:
Declining By Degrees (2005, 120 min)
This documentary follows 30 students & teachers, and explores the road between admission and graduation. The film exposes the disappointment, disorientation, and deflation that so many college students feel, and the struggles they face regardless of the schools they choose to attend.
Host: Diane Dallis, Interim Head, Information Commons
This event is co-sponsored by the Library Instruction Committee.
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
USA Patriot Act: Are Our Civil Liberties Really at Risk? (2004, 60 min)
The League of Women Voters in Santa Clara, California, hosts a group of panelists who discuss the pros and cons of the U.S. Patriot Act and its effect on librarians and library users.
Host: Lou Malcomb, Head, Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services (GIMSS)
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, 129 min)
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
Host: Lou Malcomb, Head, Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services (GIMSS)
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
In the Name of the Father (1993, 133 min)
Based on a true story, a small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated and imprisoned for an IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London.
Host: David Oldenkamp, Librarian for International Studies
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2005
Time: Noon - 2:15 p.m.
Location: Media Showing Room (E174)
Sponsored by IUB Libraries Media Services.
For more information, contact Monique Threatt, 855-9857.
