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Two New Films Explore America’s Obsession with Oil in Time for Earth Day

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April 18, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of The Big Fix and Freedom to their catalog of film titles.

Available exclusively through Filmakers, both films are directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, directors of the Sundance award-winning documentary Fuel. The Big Fix explores the issues behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster, contextualizing the event and revealing the full narrative of how the disaster came to be. Freedom is a promising look at the future of fuel, outlining the technologies and policies that can help free society from repeating the past and facing the ills—including disasters like the Deepwater Horizon collapse—from the continued exploitation of fossil fuels.

By exposing the root causes of the oil spill and what really happened after the news cameras left the Gulf States, The Big Fix uncovers corruption and a cover up. Uncensored journalists, local people whose health suffered dramatically, and scientists describe the cataclysmic effects of the spill. The Big Fix was an Official Selection at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the 2011 New Orleans Film Festival, the Best of Fest – IDFA 2011, and numerous other regional film festivals.

The New York Times said, “The Big Fix is an enraged exposé of the crimes of Big Oil, specifically BP, which has been accused of negligence and of taking shortcuts that helped lead to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig off the Louisiana coast in April 2010. The film’s conspiratorial viewpoint makes sense and is probably accurate.”

There is widespread agreement that America needs to wean itself off oil yet, among alternative energy sources, the most common and accessible biofuel—ethanol—is a lightning rod of controversy. An anti-ethanol coalition made up of both big oil and hard-line environmentalists stokes the fire of that controversy. In Freedom, the Tickells set out to learn the truth about this home-grown fuel and explore how it fits into a solution to America’s oil fix.

Freedom offers an array of green solutions. We learn about advanced biofuels, plug-in hybrids, and other sustainable technologies that could fulfill our transportation needs and watch insightful and inspirational interviews from former NATO Commander Wesley Clark; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; singer/songwriter Jason Mraz; international author Deepak Chopra; and actors Michelle Rodriguez, Amy Smart, and Ed Begley, Jr.

Freedom won Best Documentary and Best of Fest at the Brantford International Film Festival, 2011, and the Golden Ace Award at the 2011 Las Vegas Film Festival.

Both films are available for preorder on DVD at http://filmakers.com/ and will be available for online streaming on the Academic Video Store in May.

Previews of both films can be found here and here on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel.

To request review copies, please contact Jessica Kemp at jkemp [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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“Balancing Act" Of Being Japanese In America Is Explored In New Release From Alexander Street Press

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NOVEMBER 01, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) — Today, Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of the award-winning film, Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice, to its catalog of titles.

This partially autobiographical film by Kyoko Gasha shows how the deep influences of Japanese culture clashed with her need for a unique identity. Gasha’s desire for choice in her life, rather than following what she and other Japanese women call “the way” in Japan, led her to move with her daughter to New York City in 2001.

Halfway through the film Gasha asks the question: “Was I the only one who felt this way?” She then introduces four women who, like her, moved to New York from Japan to find themselves and discovered that there is great value and beauty to being Japanese in America.

“With views from three generations of women, Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice digs deep into how cultures can clash on a very personal level,” said Andrea Traubner, Director of Filmakers Library. “It’s fascinating to see how the mothers of these women react to their moves and how life in Japan compares to life in America. Students of both Asian studies and sociology should not miss this film.”

Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice received the Audience Award at the 2010 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and the 2010 Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.

Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice is currently available for purchase on DVD. Later this month, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Store at http://academicvideostore.com, and as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. For more information on Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections 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.

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Alexander Street’s Music Online Grows by Nearly 400,000 Recordings

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January 7, 2011 (SAN DIEGO, CA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announced today that its streaming music service for libraries and the education market has nearly tripled in size following the addition of close to 400,000 new jazz, world, and American music recordings.

“This is the largest single content release we’ve done to-date,” said Alexander Street’s senior music editor Liz Dutton, who explained that system-wide enhancements, process improvements, and search functionality upgrades have made the site’s rapid—and ongoing—growth possible. Said Dutton, “We expect to offer access to more than 750,000 recordings by mid-2011.” Other site enhancements include ten times faster search speeds; sound quality, which has increased from 64 kbps to 320 kbps for most recordings; and simplified search results display. Since mid-2010, the site has also supported on-the-go access for most mobile devices.

The range of new recordings across Music Online reflects the publisher’s commitment to providing affordable educational access to the highest quality recordings and record labels. Said Dutton, “Music education programs—and audiophiles served by public libraries—want and need not just a vast repertoire, but access to the very best performances, performers, and the highest quality recordings.“

New recordings were released across many of the Music Online databases, including 46,000 tracks into American Song, 61,000 tracks into Jazz Music Library, and 132,000 tracks into Contemporary World Music. Prominent highlights of the latest release include seminal live performances by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Muggsy Spanier, and the Mills Brothers as well as albums from Sarah Vaughan, Otis Grand, Ike & Tina Turner, Eddie Dean, Bill Haley, Gene Autry, Rudy Vallee, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Willie Nelson, the Highwaymen, and James Brown. Record labels include Storyville Records, JSP Records, The Montreux Jazz Label, Jazz Unlimited, Daptone Records, JSP Records, Acrobat, and GNP Crescendo. The publisher plans another major release of 57,000 new classical recordings from EMI in late January.

Also new to Music Online are close to 140,000 popular music recordings—available only to subscribers of the entire Music Online: Listening suite—featuring pop, punk, musical theatre, hip-hop, and country recordings from twentieth-century artists such as the Sex Pistols, Chicago, a Flock of Seagulls, Tanya Tucker, Liberace, and Rod Stewart. For a complete listing of all new content added to Music Online, visit http://muco.alexanderstreet.com and select “What’s New.”

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About Music Online*
A cross-searchable, online suite of music listening, score, and reference resources and the most comprehensive online resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music, Music Online includes five individual “Listening” collections: Classical Music Library; Jazz Music Library; American Song; Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries; and Contemporary World Music. With this update, Music Online now includes more than 690,000 recordings; more than 24,000 musical scores; 400-plus opera and dance videos; and more than 66,000 pages of music reference content.*

About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions world-wide. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com or contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

*recording counts represent data available for the North American market. For worldwide data, email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

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Filmakers Library, Inc. Joins Forces with Alexander Street Press, LLC

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January 7, 2011 (SAN DIEGO, CA)—Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced that it has acquired Filmakers Library, the highly regarded New York-based distributor of documentary films. Filmakers was founded in 1969 by Linda Gottesman and Sue Oscar to distribute high-quality, issue-based documentaries to the education market. Over the past 40 years it has brought a wide range of titles from around the world to a receptive academic audience. Award-winning titles include Original Intent: The Battle for America; Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Prison Lullabies; The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark; and Muslims in Love.

Said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, “This is a wonderful match. Together we’ll be able to give library and education customers the best documentary content on the most flexible delivery platform. Filmakers has a long history of service to filmmakers and librarians—we feel honored to be continuing the tradition.”

Alexander Street plans to launch the complete Filmakers Library as a subscription-based online streaming database, Filmakers Library Online, in early 2011. The publisher will also make it possible for libraries and educational institutions to order individual films via the Alexander Street streaming platform.

Said Linda Gottesman, “This new relationship ensures that the Filmakers Library collection will reach an ever wider audience.” Co-founder Sue Oscar agreed. “It will be easier than ever for faculty and students in particular to access these films—wherever they are, whenever they want to watch. Filmakers Library is thrilled that the collection will have a new life in this new medium, and we’re confident that Alexander Street will maintain the high standards for which we are known.”

Co-founders Sue Oscar and Linda Gottesman and Filmakers director Andrea Traubner will remain with Filmakers following the acquisition and will continue to be based out of the Filmakers offices in New York. To learn more about the Filmakers collection of videos, visit http://filmakers.com. To learn more about the launch of Filmakers Library Online, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, music, and performing arts. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com or contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

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Alexander Street Press
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703-212-8520 x 116
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com
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Alexander Street Press Announces Academic Video Online Publishing Plan for 2011, Launches Three New Streaming Video Collections

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April 5, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced plans to launch an integrated online repository of academic video titles. Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to rapidly expand its offerings?to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013.

The new platform, Academic Video Online, will also make it possible for subscribers to cross-search all of their Alexander Street videos from a single interface. New collections will include Art and Architecture, Religion and Philosophy, Law and Criminal Justice, Politics and Current Affairs, World Language and Literature, Psychology, Health, General Science, Business and Economics, and Diversity Studies. Later this year the publisher will offer individual streaming title options as well.

As part of its rapid expansion, Alexander Street also announced the launch of three new video collections, each available to libraries and educational institutions via annual subscription or one-time purchase: Filmakers Library Online; Education in Video; and Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume II.

The result of Alexander Street's acquisition in January of the highly regarded academic video distributor Filmakers Library, Filmakers Library Online is a continually growing online collection of issue-based documentaries and independent films.

Multidisciplinary in scope, the collection includes a wide range of subjects?race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions worldwide. The collection currently includes more than 900 films, and additional titles will be added regularly.

An online collection of videos for the training and professional development of K-12 educators, Education in Video will quickly grow to contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

The third collection launched this week, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II, is a supplement to one of Alexander Street's best-selling resources. Together, the two volumes of Counseling and Therapy in Video provide the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. The second volume of Counseling and Therapy in Video includes more than 140 videos, growing soon to more than 300; the first volume includes more than 350 titles. Soon, the two volumes will be fully cross-searchable for institutions that subscribe to both.

Currently the publisher is offering a one-month Sneak Peek access to all three new video collections. Libraries and educators who register at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/newvideo2011.htm will receive a username and password good through April 30, 2011.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions world-wide. Learn more about Alexander Street's growing suite of online video resources at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/video.htm. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

Contact Details
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Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

New Online Collection Gives History Researchers Access to Trove of Primary Materials Documenting Women’s Activism on the Global Stage

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MAY 24, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced the launch of the first online collection of primary materials chronicling the activities and influence of women’s international movements from 1830 to the present.

The editors of Women and Social Movements, International are Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, both women’s history scholars at SUNY Binghamton. Said Sklar, “Women have created new forms of transnational citizenship—different from the diplomatic or commercial activities that men have dominated internationally. New access to the historical content in this project will be transformative for scholars and students, allowing us to see, for the first time, that many of the global interactions that shape our world today were first forged by women.”

With 150,000 pages at completion and backed by a global editorial board of 130 historians, Women and Social Movements International will grow to include material from over 200 archives and libraries. Key organizations featured in the collection include the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the International Abolitionist Federation, the Inter-American Commission on Women, the International Alliance of Women, the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asian Women’s Association, the International Congress of Women at The Hague, the International Women’s Tribune Centre, and many more.

Partner archives include Harvard’s Schlesinger Library, the Aletta Institute of Women’s History, the Sophia Smith Collection, the Library of Congress, and the Mildred Persinger Collection from Hollins University.

As with other Alexander Street online collections, Women and Social Movements International is Semantically Indexed and powerfully searchable. The collection’s image viewer technology allows researchers to view and search high-quality images of the original primary materials.

To give scholars an opportunity to fully evaluate the collection, Alexander Street is offering Scholar’s Pass Access to all qualified faculty members from June 1 – August 31. Professors may request access on the publisher’s Web site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/wasstrial2011.htm.

To learn more about the collection, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/wasi.htm

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Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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703-212-8520 x 116
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Alexander Street Announces Partnership With MEDCOM-TRAINEX

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JUNE 1, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced plans to publish Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and professional development of nurses and nursing assistants.

The result of a partnership with MEDCOM-TRAINEX, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide, the collection will give nursing faculty and students at subscribing institutions 24/7 online access to MEDCOM’s highly regarded library of full-length training programs together with the advanced functionality typical of Alexander Street’s video collections. Already widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, MEDCOM videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award.

Said Greg Urquhart, vice president of business development at Alexander Street Press, “To create a nursing education collection, our goal was to identify the very best video content in that space, and MEDCOM was an obvious choice. Their reputation is second to none, and their DVDs are already widely used in nursing courses.”

Said MEDCOM vice-president, Michael K. Zoradi, “This collection will make it much easier for nursing faculty and students to access and use this content, and the Alexander Street video platform offers a lot of extra features—a single place to cross-search all videos, scrolling transcripts, mobile access—these features offer a lot of advantages for faculty and students, and we’re very pleased about the partnership.”

As a single, cross-searchable collection, Nursing Education in Video will cover the fundamentals of nurse training as well as advanced topics, including: Anatomy and Physiology, Basic Clinical Skills, Cardiology, Communications, Gerontology, Infection Control, Legal Aspects of Nursing, Long Term Care, Medication Administration, Nursing Assistant Skills, Obstetrical Nursing, Pediatrics, Surgical Care, and Wound Care.

Alexander Street plans to launch Nursing Education in Video as an online streaming collection later this year. At launch, the collection will include more than 300 titles, and it will grow by approximately 30 new videos each year.

To learn more about Nursing Education in Video, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/mcom.htm

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections for research, training, and teaching. Alexander Street online collections are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. Learn more about Alexander Street's growing suite of online video resources at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/video.htm. For more information or for media access to any of the Alexander Street streaming video collections, contact Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

Alexander Street To Launch Five New Online Collections Before End Of Year

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JULY 5, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced plans to publish five new online collections for scholars and students in the final quarter of 2011. Said Alexander Street publisher Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “It’s a big year for us in terms of new product launches, both in our traditional areas of primary materials and music education, and now in video. We’ve got hundreds of top video production and distribution companies as well as individual filmmakers licensing thousands and thousands of hours of content to us for our Academic Video Online, platform, and we’re thrilled to be able to make all of this video content more accessible to faculty, students, and the general public through their libraries.”

Nursing Education in Video, an online collection of streaming video for the training and professional development of nurses and nursing assistants, is the result of a partnership with Medcom-Trainex, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide. As a single, cross-searchable collection, Nursing Education in Video will cover the fundamentals of nurse training as well as advanced topics. With 300 full-length titles at launch, the collection will grow by roughly 30 titles each year and will be updated regularly to ensure regulatory compliance and currency relative to best practices.

Classical Music in Video will include 1,500 full-length video titles. Performances include every form of classical music, from orchestral works performed by leading orchestras, to chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances. The collection will also include interviews with master teachers from around the world and hundreds of masterclasses captured on video—including the complete, award-winning Masterclass Media Foundation series.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II will include 200,000 pages focusing on in-copyright material from major living contemporary composers around the world as well as many works not represented in Alexander Street’s very popular first volume of scores. Targeted composers slated for inclusion include Michael Tippett, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, Carl Orff, and many others.

Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Cross-searchable with Alexander Street’s Ethnographic Video Online, Anthropology Online provides sociologists, anthropologists, cultural historians, and others with complete works of the key practitioners and theorists alike throughout the discipline.

The final release slated for 2011 is Australian and New Zealand Letters and Diaries, a Semantically Indexed, full-text collection of more than 150,000 pages. This e-resource tells the stories of immigrants as they migrated to the new world that was Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 1922.

The publisher offers a Sneak Peek program: anyone interested may register to get a username and password at launch, good for 48 hours of free access to the new collections. Qualified libraries, universities, scholars, and faculty members may request an additional month of institution-wide free trial access by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

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Alexander Street Adds EMI Recordings To Classical Music Library

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JULY 13, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street announced the addition of nearly 22,500 recordings from EMI and EMI sub-labels Virgin Classics and Angel Records to its award-winning streaming music collection for libraries and educational institutions, Classical Music Library.

Said Editorial Director Liz Dutton, “These are world-class artists and ensembles—seminal and historic recordings together with the most important contemporary releases. The breadth and scope of the new content represents a fantastic addition to Classical Music Library, and it will have an enormous impact on the collection’s value for students and music instructors at the thousands of subscribing universities worldwide and for classical music fans accessing the collection through their public library.”

Highlights of the release include recordings by Thomas Hampson, the Eroica Trio, Enrico Caruso, Natalie Dessay, Sarah Chang, Les Arts Florissants, Maria Callas, Julian Bream, the English Consort, Dinu Lipatti, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Yehudi Menuhin, Kiri Te Kanawa, Maxim Vengerov, and many more.

The publisher also announced that they have added global rights for all of the EMI recordings in Classical Music Library for all territories except Japan. An additional 35,000 recordings, also largely from EMI, will be added to Classical Music Library later this year. In all, the e-resource has tripled the number of recordings since 2010.

EMI is known for being the world’s oldest recording label, and for possessing the largest catalog of classical recordings in the world. In addition to EMI, Alexander Street has licensed recordings from more than 50 other major music labels, including Sanctuary Classics, Hyperion, CBC, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Hänssler Classic.

Classical Music Library is part of Music Online, Alexander Street’s growing suite of recordings, scores, videos, and music reference e-resources. All of the collections in the Music Online suite of e-resources are fully integrated and cross-searchable from a single URL, making it the only comprehensive resource for the study and enjoyment of classical, world, American, and jazz music.

More information about Classical Music Library and the entire Music Online suite of music listening and reference e-resources can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/music.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a 30-day trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Stieg Larsson's Partner Discusses Themes Of The Millennium Trilogy In The New Release From Filmakers Library

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OCTOBER 6, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium: As Viewed by Eva Gabrielsson, His Partner to its collection of films.

With over 46 million copies of the Millennium Trilogy sold worldwide, the various meanings and themes of the late Stieg Larsson’s work have inevitably been debated and sensationalized in many circles. Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson’s partner of 32 years, is now trying to set the record straight, explaining that though many consider the books to be mysteries and action stories, Larsson’s intention was to create “a critical portrait of women’s oppression in a patriarchal society.”

The film follows Gabrielsson as she works with a Danish theatre company on a stage version of the first book in the series, a version that highlights the social critique and feminist themes that she feels have been underrepresented in the various mainstream film versions of the series.

“To have an inside look at the creative process behind this popular literary series is extremely fortunate,” said Andrea Traubner, Director of Filmakers Library. “With the loss of Stieg Larsson, thoughts of knowing the true literary intent of his novels seemed like a pipe dream; but now, thanks to Gabrielsson, literary circles have the chance to get a glimpse not only into the intent of the series, but into the everyday life of its author.”

Larsson’s apartment, one of his favorite places to work, and other places that inspired the settings within the Millennium Trilogy are shown while Gabrielsson explains their meanings and remembers the life she shared with Larsson.

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium is currently available for purchase on DVD. Starting in mid-October, this title will be available online in streaming video through Alexander Street’s Academic Video Store at http://academicvideostore.com, and as part of Alexander Street’s Filmakers Library Online collection.

A preview of this video can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. For more information on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium: As Viewed by Eva Gabrielsson, His Partner or to order the DVD, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/filmakers.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information for Filmakers Library Online by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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