New Media
Media Newsletter
April 2009
(For a PDF copy of this newsletter, click here.)
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LostandFound
For several months Media & Reserve Services has been seeking the owners to two media titles mistakenly returned to us:
The Dreamers.
(1 DVD)
Food for Thought: M.F.K. Fisher. (Series: A World of Ideas)
(1 videocassette)
If either title belongs to you or someone you know, please contact either Rhonda Rosen at rrosen@lmu.edu or 310-338-4584, or Reggie Melonson at rmelonson@lmu.edu or 310-338-7672.
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"Welcome to Hard Times."
(All of the following titles are available at the Media & Reserve Counter.)
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70th anniversary year of the classic Great Depression film, based on the illustrious novel by John Steinbeck: |
The Grapes of Wrath. (1939)
DVD0657
Directed by John Ford.
Stars Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, John Carradine.
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
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Capitalism Hits the Fan: a lecture on the economic meltdown.
DVD3288
"Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the sources of the economic crisis to the 1970's, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown"--Container.
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I.O.U.S.A.
DVD3323
"I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal goernment is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together archival footage, economic data and candid interviews with Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul O'Neill, Robert Rubin, Alice Rivlin and Paul Volcker, along with David Walker of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition, the film offers a vivid and alarming profile of America's financial status"--Container.
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In Debt We Trust: America before the bubble bursts.
DVD2584
This documentary, examining the increasing debt burden carried by millions of Americans, argues that corrupt practices by financial and government institutions are fostering citizens' dependence on credit while creating a ballooning national debt that is leading the country towards fiscal disaster.
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Maxed Out.
DVD2317
Take a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Shocking and incisive, it paints a picture of a national nightmare, which is all too real for most--Container.
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The Overspent American.
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"Juliet Schor scrutinizes what she calls 'the new consumerism' -- a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system. She argues that 'keeping up with the Joneses' is no longer enough for middle and upper-middle class Americans, many of whom become burdened with debilitating debt as they seek to emulate materialistic 'TV lifestyles'"--Container.
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Secret History of the Credit Card.
DVD1089
This documentary investigates how the credit card industry became so pervasive, lucrative, and politically powerful. Explores the techniques used by the industry to earn large profits and get consumers to take on more debt.
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We All Fall Down: the American Mortgage Crisis.
On Order.
This timely and informative documentary chronicles the history of America's mortgage finance system, from its origins in the 1930s, when the federal government first made available long-term, fixed-rate loans to new American homeowners, to its current state of crisis, after an excess of risky mortgage financing led to the system's collapse, which in turn triggered a wider economic recession. |
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