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Art Therapy For People Deemed “Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity" Is Explored In New Film From Alexander Street Press

DECEMBER 21, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) — Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of Lens and Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place to their catalog of film titles.

This hopeful and uplifting film by Deborah J. Schull introduces viewers to the Lens, Pens, Brushes and Friends program at the John Howard Pavilion—the former maximum-security wing of Washington, DC’s historic St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The program provides classes in poetry, photography and painting to people who were deemed mentally ill after being charged with a crime. Through interviews with the program’s co-founders, group leaders and three program participants, viewers are shown how art can build confidence and encourage the patients to express themselves.

According to Ed Washington, co-founder of Lens, Pens, Brushes and Friends, the program uses art as a vehicle for communication, a way to start changing societal perceptions about people who are mentally ill. One former inpatient interviewed in the film suggests that the program goes even further by changing individuals’ perceptions of themselves – “It’s wonderful to have an image in my own mind of someone I can be.”

“This film is a testimony to the saying, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover,’” said Sue Oscar, co-founder of Filmakers Library. “The people featured show us that talent, creativity and inspiration can come in any package. Without a doubt, scholars of counseling and art therapy will find this film very worthwhile.”

Lens and Pens is the recipient of numerous honors including the Mental Health America Media Award and an Honorable Mention at the 2010 Voice Awards by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Lens and Pens is currently available for purchase on DVD and, for the first time, in streaming video format through the Academic Video Store. Also, later this month this film will be available 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 Lens and Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place 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.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
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Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 X116
adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com (adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com)

Previously Unpublished Material Highlighted in New Collections in Anthropology and Music

December 21, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press announces the launch of two highly anticipated collections: Classical Scores Library: Volume II, the first online score collection for libraries composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers; and Anthropology Online, a comprehensive resource that at completion will contain more than 100,000 pages of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs and contemporary studies from major archives around the world—many previously unpublished.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II complements and expands on the critically acclaimed Classical Scores Library with a focus on major composers not represented in the first collection; new contemporary scores by major living composers around the world; and critical editions of compositions that are lesser known but often studied. Items that are typically unavailable in print in library collections are now available online for viewing and study—including scores of many self-published composers. The collection includes composers such as Michael Tippett, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel and many others.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II is a comprehensive resource, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and more, all available in fast-loading JPG format. Users can access full scores, go directly to individual movements, zoom in to examine specific measures and tempo markings, and print scores for personal or class study and notation.  As part of Alexander Street’s Music Online suite of music reference and listening collections, Classical Scores Library: Volume II can be cross searched with other Music Online collections from a single interface. 

Anthropology Online brings together works ranging from the 19th century to the present day, covering all areas of the discipline, with a special focus given to outside the developed world. Including areas such as cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, applied anthropology, archeology, and urban anthropology, this collection is the full-text equivalent to Alexander Street’s ethnographic video database, Ethnographic Video Online.

As such, Anthropology Online is cross-searchable with Ethnographic Video Online, providing users with the unique ability to both read about and watch human behavior specific to their research needs; and the collection’s deep indexing allows searching by geographical region, cultural or kinship group, anthropological subjects and more. Key anthropologists represented in the collection include Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, David MacDougall and many more.

“With the launch of these collections, we have met our goal of expanding our music and anthropology offerings with additional content related to two well used projects, an expansion requested by many of our customers,” said Eileen Lawrence, vice president of sales and marketing. “Anthropology Online is the full text partner to Ethnographic Video Online, Classical Scores Library: Volume II extends its predecessor, and at the same time each collection can stand on its own. Thoughtfully curated and semantically indexed, these collections are must haves for libraries catering to programs in music, anthropology, geography, world studies, and related areas.”

More information about Classical Scores Library: Volume II; more information about Anthropology Online. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:

Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116
adegregorio [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

New Release From FIlmakers Library Addresses A New Dilemma Created By Scientific Advances

OCTOBER 11, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, announces the addition of In the End: A Medical Dilemma to its growing catalog of film titles.

The poignant film by Charlotte Roseby takes viewers into an intensive care unit to uncover a dilemma now faced by patients, their families and their doctors on whether to use new medical technology to prolong life, even when the chances of actually getting better are slim.

The modern-day shift from using advanced technologies only on younger patients to the increasingly common use on elderly patients coincides with the shift from doctors having the predominant say on the use of treatments to families and patients holding more decision power. The result is that families are frequently finding themselves in the odd position of wanting treatment for their loved one but struggling with the reality of having them in prolonged intensive care.

“I watched this film with a lump in my throat,” said Andrea Traubner, Director of Filmakers Library. “The film quietly brings you into the lives of families and of a compassionate intensive care specialist who are all struggling with the challenge of accepting death when acceptance is no longer the only option. Healthcare and psychology students alike will find this film instrumental in preparing for work with intensive care patients and their families.”

Not only does the film explore the families’ dilemma, but it also looks at the views of the doctors. Intensive care specialist, Dr. Charlie Corke, director of the intensive care unit the film visits, states that “the difficulty comes because we are able, quite often, to prevent death but not to restore health.”

In the End 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 In the End: A Medical Dilemma 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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About Alexander Street Press
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.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 X116
adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com

Acclaimed Teachers TV Titles Added to Alexander Street’s Education in Video Collection

February 9, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announces the addition of the complete catalog of United Kingdom-based Teachers TV to its Education in Video collection.  This addition significantly increases the collection, adding more than 800 hours of best-practice, research-based and in-classroom education video, with no additional charge to customers.

Created by the United Kingdom’s Department of Education in 2008, Teachers TV produced concise instructional videos featuring engaging and practical in-classroom demonstrations and commentary from teachers, administrators and other educational experts.  The government-funded Teachers TV Web site closed down due to budget cuts in April 2011 but is now available to an international audience through Education in Video. In addition to the fully searchable scrolling transcripts that will be added to the videos in the spring, the titles are viewable in full screen mode, cross-searchable with related videos, semantically indexed, and in a much higher streaming quality than previously available. 

“We are so pleased to bring such high quality educational content to audiences beyond the United Kingdom,” said Elizabeth Robey, editor of Education in Video. “The potential for increased global collaboration and understanding in educational practices is greatly enhanced by the addition of these titles to our flagship education collection.”

More than 3,000 videos make up the Teachers TV catalog.  Key topics covered include teaching global issues and citizenship, behavior issues, assessment, administration techniques, social issues, ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and special education.

The licensing agreement allows for open access to the taxpayer-funded content for all United Kingdom and Northern Ireland users, along with the unique Alexander Street features such as scrolling transcripts and full-screen functionality, at the open access portal http://edtv.alexanderstreet.com.

More information on Education in Video can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/education-video. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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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.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:

Audrey DeGregorio
Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116
adegregorio [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com
 

Alexander Street Press Launches Free Search Platform Integrating All Video Products

OCTOBER 13, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Starting today, libraries with access to Alexander Street Press video collections can cross-search all of them in one place, with the new Academic Video Online platform. The new video cross-search tool is free to users of Alexander Street video.

“The new Academic Video Online cross-search will change the way people use academic video in teaching and learning,” said Eileen Lawrence, Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Academic Video Online integrates all the features within individual Alexander Street video collections—synchronized scrolling transcripts; tools to make clips and playlists; the ability to search a transcript while watching and to jump forward and backward to your search hits; permanent URLs for all videos, clips and playlists; and much more. Users also can now explore dozens of disciplines in a single search.

Alexander Street offers streaming video covering the performing arts, nursing, counseling therapy, business and economics, science, art and architecture, music, and other areas. There are more than 10,000 video titles within Academic Video Online right now, with videos continually added. By 2013, Academic Video Online will offer more than 22,000 titles.

“We’re building a virtual city of video,” said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street. “We’re teaching a generation of visual learners who have declared video their format of choice, and Academic Video Online gives both educators and learners the tools to make the most of this medium.”

Libraries can buy or subscribe to individual video collections. They can subscribe to VAST, a package of 21 discipline collections, the best value. Or they can subscribe to streaming single titles through the Academic Video Store. Discipline collections, single titles, or the VAST package – or any combination – will all now be accessible and cross-searchable through the new, free Academic Video Online platform.

More information on Academic Video Online, VAST, or individual video collections can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/video.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information for VAST or any individual video collections by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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About Alexander Street Press
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.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 X116
adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com

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

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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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.

 

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:

Jessica Kemp

Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
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jkemp [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

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Alexander Street Press' The Sixties Collection Grows By Over 8,000 Pages

OCTOBER 18, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announces the addition of over 8,000 new pages and more than 1,000 new sources to its popular collection, The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974.

The range of new materials added to The Sixties reflects the publisher’s commitment to providing affordable educational access to the highest quality primary-source content for scholarly research. For the first time, The Sixties contains materials from the Fred Hirsch Ephemera Collection at San Jose State University. Researchers will find among the fascinating items in this collection a “Free Angela Davis” protest pamphlet; a report on a community patrol set up to monitor abuse by police in low-income areas (published in the San Jose Peace Officers’ Association bulletin, The Vanguard), and a congressional district proposal to create an offshoot to the Democratic Party called the “Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.”

Fred Hirsch, a union activist and organizer, was a key player in 1960s civil rights activism and the materials from his collection are extremely valuable in the study of that time period. Among his many achievements, Hirsch wrote the first pamphlet exposing CIA machinations in the Latin American labor movement and participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer project to help register African American voters in Mississippi.

“The immediacy of these documents is spectacular,” said Julie Miller, editor of The Sixties. “The Hirsch collection provides a window into the passion of the people involved in activism in the 1960s. You can feel the palpable suspicion of law enforcement in narratives like The Vanguard report, and see the passion and power of activists through the layout of the Angela Davis pamphlet.”

Along with the Fred Hirsch materials, archival documents from the Wilcox Collection at the University of Kansas and from Stony Brook University have been added -- The Sixties now contains more than 89,000 pages and over 4,000 sources.

More information on The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/sixt.htm. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information for VAST or any individual video collections by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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About Alexander Street Press
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.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 X116
adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com

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RSVP to the Alexander Street Customer Appreciation Breakfast.

Read more about Advisory Roundtable Sessions.

We're very excited to be hosting this Midwinter's Customer Appreciation Breakfast again this year in Dallas, TX.

This time, you’ll hear about new video collections in many more disciplines, the fast growth of VAST: Academic Video Online, new full-text collections in gay and lesbian studies, anthropology, twentieth-century religious writing, and more—and new technologies, including an unprecedented way for your users to interact with media. And our guest speaker is one of today’s most notable documentary filmmakers.

You’ve watched the public-television series Prohibition (last month), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (last year), The War (2007), andFrank Lloyd Wright (1998). You can quickly name the co-producer who’s in the spotlight—Ken Burns.  Do you know the other—equally sharing the directing and producing credits?

Come to our ALA customer breakfast to meet and hear Lynn Novick, whom The New York Times called “A Steady Presence Out of the Limelight”. Several Ken Burns / Lynn Novick film series are in Alexander Street’s American History in Video.  Ms. Novick is a Yale alumna who worked in research at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, at WNET public television in New York, and as associate producer for Bill Moyers, before joining up with Mr. Burns. We’re thrilled to have Ms. Novick as our guest speaker!

At the breakfast, you will also learn about:

  • Developments in VAST: Academic Video Online – our multidisciplinary streaming video product growing quickly to 20,000 titles.
  • A new technology that will radically change the way users interact with online information!  We can’t tell you more now, but you’ll want to be here to find out.
  • A brand-new way for you to bring your own content to the Alexander Street platform.
  • Classical Scores Library: Volume II—live this month.
  • Anthropology Online—live this month, the highly anticipated full-text companion to Ethnographic Video Online.
  • Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture—live in mid-2012.
  • The March of Time—live early in 2012, the landmark newsreel project (1930s – 1960s) that put Time magazine into theatres and on television.
  • New global newsreels going into World History in Video.
  • Classical Music in Video—live early 2012, bringing classical performances to Alexander Street’s video offerings.
  • ...and more. Please join us!

Please e-mail us as marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com to request an invitation to the breakfast or roundtables.

Alexander Street Press Grows Streaming Video Portfolio With Four Debut Collections

 

ALEXANDER STREET PRESS GROWS STREAMING VIDEO PORTFOLIO WITH FOUR DEBUT COLLECTIONS
Includes Content in Art and Architecture, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Health Care, and Criminal Justice

 

June 28, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press is rapidly expanding its streaming video offerings with four original digital collections. Together, the collections will encompass more than two thousand hours of content in several of the fastest growing disciplines in the arts and social sciences.

 

Art and Architecture in Video is a dynamic assemblage of documentaries and interviews designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of visual media and enhance their capabilities for critical analysis. The collection spans period and region, and includes historical and theoretical coverage from Renaissance to present day as well as applied topics such as architectural and graphic design.

LGBT Studies in Video is a first-of-its-kind collection featuring award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and s feature films exploring LGBT history and culture. It includes rare works such as Michael, a 1924 silent film recognized as one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in cinematic history. Future releases will include one hundred hours of content from Frameline, a non-profit media arts organization that produces the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the oldest film festival devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender programming currently in existence.

Health and Society in Video shines a light on many of the twenty-first century’s most pressing health issues—from pediatric AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease to the Obama administration’s health care plan and organ donation—and examines their societal impact from diverse and highly personal perspectives. The collection helps bridge the gap between science and public understanding, and offers fundamental insight for cross-disciplinary programs that examine the nature of human interaction with the world.

Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video transports viewers to the front lines to learn skills and techniques firsthand from justice and public safety professionals. Through a series of documentaries, training videos, and interviews, law enforcement and corrections personal, first responders, and victims’ advocates guide students through key theoretical principles and their practical applications. The collection currently features more than ninety hours of content from In the Line of Duty, a world leader in reality-based online video training for law enforcement series, with more to come in future releases.

Alexander Street Press’ collections are fully indexed and searchable to allow users to easily identify the information most relevant and meaningful to their course of study. Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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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.

Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Landmark Silent And Feature Film Databases Launch At Alexander Street Press

(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 OnlineSilent 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.

New World CinemaNearly 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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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.

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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