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Health Science Video Booms at Alexander Street with Two New Collections

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July 12, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA)—Alexander Street Press continues to grow its health sciences portfolio with the release of two streaming video collections, Rehabilitation Therapy in Video and The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy.

Rehabilitation Therapy in Video is a groundbreaking collection focused on the physical treatment of patients with congenital disorders, chronic health issues, and traumatic injuries. It includes more than 750 hours of streaming video. Students and faculty will receive an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with patients and putting theoretical concepts into practice.

Videos feature renowned occupational, physical, and speech therapists explaining the underlying anatomical and neurological issues in specific patient populations, while demonstrating effective techniques for their treatment. Topics include working with aging populations, brain injury, learning disabilities, pain management, speech impediments, and more.

Titles have been approved for educational use by key organizations such as the American Physical Therapy Association, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and many others. Content is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure accuracy and compliance with current standards.

With more than 1,000 hours of innovative content, The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy provides a window into the presentations, lectures, and workshops of today’s most celebrated psychology and counseling thought leaders. The collection includes presentations from influential researchers and clinicians including Donald Meichenbaum, John Gottman, Marsha Linehan, Deepak Chopra, Salvador Minuchin, Philip Zimbardo, Sue Johnson, Scott Miller, Russell Barkley, and Judith Beck.

Much of the content was filmed in the past year, and new videos are added regularly. This extensive anthology is indexed to provide users with instant, convenient access to highly focused materials that covers the latest in research methods, practices, and techniques across a broad base of subject matter.

“Our newest collections provide demonstrations of some highly nuanced techniques,” says Greg Urquhart, Vice President of Business Development at Alexander Street. “They offer a level of precision that can’t be found in any textbook and are essential for anyone studying disciplines related to rehabilitation therapy or counseling.”

Video clips from Rehabilitation Therapy in Video and The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy are available online. To request a free trial or price quote, e-mail sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Landmark Silent And Feature Film Databases Launch At Alexander Street Press

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA)—Alexander Street Press expands its visual arts offerings with the release of two streaming video collections, Silent Film Online and New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990‒Present.

Silent Film Online is carefully curated by Alexander Street’s editors and Video Advisory Board to include high-quality silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. These films, which come from many of the industry’s most notable pioneers, provide primary source documentation of foundational techniques in filmmaking and serve as a powerful resource for the study of late nineteenth and early twentieth century history, culture, and attitudes.

Highlights from the collection include Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1903), F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), Harry A. Pollard’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927), and assorted works from filmmakers including D.W. Griffith, Georges Méliès, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Charles Chaplin, Luis Buñuel, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Sjostrom, Erich von Stroheim, Carl T. Dreyer, and others.

The globally minded collection includes examples of the silent film movement from Germany, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France, and complements its feature films with a selection of related documentaries. Launching with three hundred streaming online titles, Silent Film Online will more than double in size before completion.

Nearly two hundred full-length feature films and fifty shorts were hand-selected to comprise New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990‒Present. The films, all of which appeared at major film festivals, have collectively won more than one thousand awards and come from leading industry distributors like Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. Featured works include Oscar nominees like Yôji Yamada’s Twilight Samurai, Tran Anh Hung’s The Scent of Green Papaya, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, as well as Cannes Grand Prize-winner The Piano Teacher, directed by Michael Haneke.

The titles represent sixty countries and forty languages, providing a window into a wide range of cultures and sociological issues across the globe. The collection highlights a variety of cinematographic techniques and features works by many of the world’s leading contemporary directors, including Andrei Zvyagintsev, Koji Wakamatsu, Wong Kar-Wai, and Jean-Luc Godard.

“While these collections provide valuable content for cinema studies, their scholarly applications extend well beyond that,” says Will Whalen, Vice President of Licensing at Alexander Street. “Extensive indexing means viewers can identify films by release year, cultural or political topic, or any key word, making relevant content easy to find for the study of sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and more.”

Both collections are currently for sale in North America. More information about Silent Film Online and New World Cinema, including a full list of film titles, is available online. To request a free trial or price quote, please e-mail sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Unprecedented Archives of Black Studies in Video from Alexander Street Press

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September 10, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press announces the release of Black Studies in Video, the newest streaming video collection in its award-winning black studies portfolio.

Black Studies in Video will weave together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. At completion, the collection will contain five hundred hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

The collection draws from partnerships with organizations such as California Newsreel, the US’s oldest nonprofit social issue documentary film center. Through this collaboration, Black Studies in Video will offer exclusive access to the SNCC Legacy Video Collection, a series of more than fifty hours of formal addresses, panel discussions, and programs that took place at the fiftieth anniversary conference and reunion commemorating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Black Studies in Video includes documentaries on leading artists, writers, musicians, playwrights, and performers, such as Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton, Frantz Fanon, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Eldridge Cleaver, August Wilson, Bobby Seale, Ethel Waters, Amiri Baraka, and Robert F. Williams.

Other planned key content includes films from notable filmmaker Marlon Riggs: Color Adjustment, Black Is…Black Ain’t, and Ethnic Notions; and materials from the Hatch-Billops Collection, a critically acclaimed archive of primary and secondary resource materials focused on black American art, drama, and literature.

“Black Studies in Video is a core collection that embodies our goal of making silent voices heard,” says Vice President of Licensing Will Whalen. “It builds off our earlier databases in black drama, literature, history, sociology, and culture to provide some of the most important video content in the field.”

Black Studies in Video is currently available worldwide to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or onetime purchase of perpetual rights. For more information, or to request a trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
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ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Alexander Street Premieres Expansive Video Collection for Study of Human Movement

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August 22, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press launches the most extensive video collection ever compiled of sports medicine and exercise science content.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video features hundreds of hours of high-quality clinician education materials on the study of human movement. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning—the world’s leading producer of sports medicine videos—the collection’s content covers performance, conditioning, rehabilitation, and physical education across a broad range of sports and activities. At completion, the collection will contain nearly 750 hours of content.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video includes demonstrations of the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise and sport science from acclaimed athletic trainers, physicians, physical therapists, registered dieticians, and other wellness professionals. The collection’s more than one hundred featured authorities include:

Walter M. Bortz II, MD, past president of the American Geriatric Society
Melinda Millard-Stafford, PhD, FACSM, past president of the American College of Sports Medicine
Tedd Mitchell, MD, medical director of the world-famous Cooper Clinic in Dallas
Pam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV
Eddie Phillips, MD, FACSM, director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard University

Focal topics across the collection include includes sport-specific training, exercise psychology, injury prevention and treatment, nutrition, special populations, fitness and health assessment, medical fitness, exercise adherence, sport science, worksite wellness, and much more.

Titles in each collection have been approved for educational use by key organizations such as the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Athletic Trainers Association, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, and the American Council on Exercise. Content is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure accuracy and compliance with current standards.

The collection is currently for sale worldwide. More information about Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video is available online. To request a free trial or price quote, please e-mail sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

University Faculty Awarded NSF Grant to Study Alexander Street's Counseling Films

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September 18, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Films from Alexander Street Press’s counseling collections will serve as the basis for a new academic study on sexual orientation in the psychotherapy session. The study will be conducted by researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Tennessee, and is made possible by a $60,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Co-investigators Patrick Grzanka of Arizona State University and Joe Miles of the University of Tennessee will use twenty educational videos from Alexander Street Press’s recent counseling collections to conduct their research. The source material for their studies is more than 1,200 minutes of content, including actual psychotherapy sessions, simulated sessions, and documentary content.

By rigorously and methodically examining these films using qualitative methods, Grzanka and Miles hope to examine how therapists work with their clients to develop shared ideas about sexual orientation. The research team will also examine how psychologists and clients in the videos connect sexual orientation to other mental health issues, such as depression, and other forms of identity, including race and religion.

“Alexander Street’s counseling films are a powerful set of data for study,” says Grzanka. “They offer rare and authentic examples of how psychotherapists view discussions of sexual orientation and how they approach treatment. They are ripe for sociological inquiry into the practice of psychological science as it pertains to sexuality, which has historically been such a contentious issue in psychology.”

“We’re pleased to provide the content that will inform this important research,” says Elizabeth Robey, Counseling and Therapy Editor at Alexander Street Press. “These counseling films aren’t just impacting the classroom; they’re contributing directly to the field of research.”

Grzanka and Miles aim to present their initial findings at several forthcoming research conferences, develop articles on their results for science and technology journals, and build a searchable database of relevant literature to be hosted at www.socialactionrt.org.

Alexander Street Press’s counseling and therapy portfolio includes hundreds of films and more than one thousand hours of content across four collections, with more content added regularly. Collections include The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy, volumes I and II of Counseling and Therapy in Video, and Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works. For more information, please visit: http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/counseling-and-therapy.

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Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
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Acclaimed Film Sholem Aleichem Now Available from Alexander Street Press

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October 1, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – The critically acclaimed 2011 film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is now available to educational institutions exclusively from Alexander Street Press.

The film, which profiles the man many consider “the Jewish Mark Twain,” has received numerous accolades, earning a place as a New York Times critic’s pick, a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and considerable box office success.

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a riveting portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the Milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859‒1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century.

Using a rich collection of archival footage, Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness recreates an era in czarist Russia when Jews were second-class citizens and frequent scapegoats in times of social and political unrest. By founding the first Yiddish literary journal, Aleichem transformed himself into a revolutionary and helped foster the emergence of a new Jewish identity.

The film features enactments of excerpts from Aleichem’s stories, many of which turned difficult situations into high comedy and farce, and pairs them with old photographs that recall the vitality of shtetl life. Sholem Aleichem also incorporates commentaries from Aleichem’s 100-year-old granddaughter Bella Kaufman (author of Up the Down Staircase), Aaron Lansky of the Yiddish Book Center, and Professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard University.

“Sholem Aleichem chronicles an important period with vigor and authenticity,” says Danny Costa, Director of Single Title Sales at Alexander Street Press. “It’s earned its reputation as an essential film for the study of Jewish history and culture.”

Sholem Aleichem is currently available for purchase from the Academic Video Store at www.academicvideostore.com.

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Alexander Street’s New Collection of Counseling and Therapy Videos Bridges Past and Future

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October 10, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Counseling and Therapy in Video Volume III, the newly released streaming video collection from Alexander Street Press, highlights the evolution of the counseling field with prominent films on classic and emerging topics.

Volume III will grow to include more than three hundred hours of training videos, reenactments, and actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned counseling experts. The collection builds off many traditional theories, including psychodynamic, existential, and cognitive behavioral, while expanding into new and emerging areas such as social media and neuroscience.

Counseling and Therapy in Video Volume III spans nearly thirty years of evolving counseling theory and practice. It features classic films from the “giants” of counseling and psychotherapy, such as Viktor Frankl, Albert Bandura, Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck, and Jay Haley, whose theoretical models shape contemporary views of counseling. The earliest film in the collection, The Role of the Therapist, The Role of the Client, is a panel discussion from 1985 featuring Virginia Satir, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and Thomas Szasz, early psychotherapy pioneers whose work left an enduring legacy.

The collection juxtaposes this rich and vibrant history with an examination of contemporary and future directions for counseling and therapy. More than 55 of the titles were produced in 2012 and more than 40 are scheduled for production in 2013. Forthcoming titles will cover a range of cutting-edge topics (i.e., mindfulness, cyberbullying, brain-based therapy) and training in areas commonly encountered in today’s therapy environment (i.e., veterans, eating disorders, autism).

“To be an effective counselor, it’s important to understand where the field is going, but also where it’s been,” says Elizabeth Robey, Alexander Street Press’s Counseling and Therapy Editor. “This collection powerfully demonstrates that link between therapy’s past and future.”

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume III is available through annual subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights, with prices scaled to institutional size and budget. Volume III is designed to work as a standalone resource or as a seamlessly integrated component of Volumes I and II. Together, the three collections offer more than 1,000 hours of video accessible through a cross-searchable interface. To request a free trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Asia Pacific Films Joins Forces with Alexander Street Press

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Alexander Street Press Asia Pacific Films

Asia Pacific Films Joins Forces with Alexander Street Press

October 31, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press and Hawaii-based Asia Pacific Films have partnered together to expand the range of content from Asia and the Pacific available to educators and scholars worldwide.

Since founding Asia Pacific Films in 2009, president Jeannette Hereniko has built an unrivalled catalog of culturally and historically significant films from Asia and the Pacific, 90 percent of which had not previously been distributed outside of their country of origin. The collection is curated by an experienced team of film experts in Asia and the Pacific who work in concert with many of the region’s most notable scholars, critics, and curators.

Asia Pacific Films offers more than 600 streaming videos including more than one hundred shorts, dozens of documentaries, and hundreds of feature-length films in a variety of genres, including action, comedy, drama, experimental, horror, and thriller.

“We’re delighted to have the opportunity to partner with Jeannette in making these important films available to libraries and educational institutions around the world,” said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press. “Alexander Street’s mission is to make silent voices heard, and these films are essential for the study of the Asia Pacific region.”

Alexander Street Press plans to launch a new online streaming video collection titled Asian Studies in Video in early 2013 that will incorporate much of the Asia Pacific Films catalog. Further collections are expected in the future as the two companies continue to publish content from Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Ms. Hereniko, founder of the Hawaii International Film Festival and a founding board member of Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema noted, “This new relationship ensures that the Asia Pacific Films’s collection will reach the widest possible audience, expanding awareness and understanding of this important region, and benefiting the filmmakers that document its history and culture.”

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

About Asia Pacific Films
Asia Pacific Films is an online film distributor of culturally and historically significant films from Asia and the Pacific that entertain, educate, and inspire viewers to think beyond boundaries. Each film is selected by an experienced film programmer who works closely with scholars, critics, and filmmakers to bring quality films and resources to educational audiences. For more information, please visit http://AsiaPacificFilms.com and http://AsiaPacificFilms.tv.

Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
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Alexander Street Brings Free Streaming Video To Libraries Nationwide

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press is broadening the reach of scholarly video in libraries across the United States with a giveaway of 52 subscriptions to Filmakers Library Online.

One library from each state—plus the District of Columbia and Canada—will be selected to receive a year free access. University, research, and public libraries that are new to digital video are encouraged to apply and find out firsthand why vivid streaming video delivers data in a way no other medium can.

The featured collection, Filmakers Library Online, contains more than 1,000 high-quality, issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world—over 800 hours of content in all. Films in the collection were hand-selected to meet the needs of researchers and teaching faculty in a wide variety of disciplines: from race and gender studies, international relations, and criminal justice to the environment, bioethics, psychology, and the arts. Library Journal named the collection a 2011 Editor’s Choice Award winner, and Booklist declared it “highly recommended.”

Alexander Street’s streaming video collections deliver many benefits for libraries: unlimited simultaneous users, nothing to circulate or shelve, and comprehensive indexing and transcription that allow users to easily locate content of interest, create clips and playlist to show later, and more.

“Streaming video has a role to play in every library,” said Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “and we want to help more libraries discover what makes it such a powerful educational tool.”

Applications to win a subscription are being accepted through December 31, 2012, and winners will be announced at the American Library Association’s Midwinter 2013 meeting in Seattle this January. Winners will be selected based on their stated interest in using video in their library and Alexander Street will work closely with the winners to provide intensive marketing and training support to help make video a success in each selected library. In turn for being selected, Alexander Street will be asking for winners’ feedback —just 15 minutes four times over the year—to help better understand how video is being used by librarians, students, and patrons today..

Qualified institutions are encouraged to apply online.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
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703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Ethnography Video Offerings Grow at Alexander Street Press

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ETHNOGRAPHY VIDEO OFFERINGS GROW AT ALEXANDER STREET PRESS

November 20, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press’s ethnography resources continue to expand and diversify with the addition of the new video collection Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II.

This second volume of the Ethnographic Video Online collection focuses closely on current issues such as environmental crises, refugee migration, and endangered languages. It will also include the high-value archival material Alexander Street anthropology collections have come to be known for.

Global in scope, the collection features works from a roster of diverse international filmmakers and includes footage from every continent. It will grow to include 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries, field recordings, and previously unpublished footage from targeted anthropological archives such as the Grenada Centre of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Among the collection’s key content is RAI’s six-part series from Central Television, Strangers Abroad, which documents the link between the “armchair anthropologist” and the modern field worker/scholar by presenting footage of the pioneering ethnographers who lived among the people they studied. Titles in this series include Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age, Franz Boas’s The Shackles of Tradition, and Bronislaw Malinowski’s Off the Verandah.

Also featured are:

The Asia Pacific Films collection, which provides strong representation of Oceania with films by Caroline Yacoe, Garin Nugroho, Uruphong Raksasad, Stephanie Castillo, and Vilsoni Hereniko.
Additional RAI series developed for the UK’s National Geographic, Channel 4.
Forbidden Rites, a series produced for National Geographic that includes films on cannibalism, head hunting, and human sacrifice.
Internationally recognized films from ZED, including Becoming a Man, Master of the Spirits, and Lands of Legends.
Celebrated archival content, including 1963 film Were Ni! He Is a Madman, focused on the Yoruba of Nigeria and their treatment of psychiatric disorders.

“Far from a historical subject, ethnography is a field that continues to evolve,” said Will Whalen, Vice President of Licensing at Alexander Street Press. “Our collection illustrates the impacts of our changing world that are vital to studying and understanding this discipline today.”

Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II is available to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide via subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. It can be used as a standalone resource or seamlessly integrated with other Alexander Street anthropology collections—including the first volume of Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online, a full-text companion collection, which is being demoed at the American Anthropology Association annual meeting in San Francisco.

No special setup or software is required—all you need is an Internet browser. Prices are scaled to institutional size and budget. To request a free trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

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