Month: July 2010

Silent Films

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Week of July 19, 2010

Silent Films

In the News: Silent movies, such as Metropolis (1927) and Man with a Movie Camera (1929), were the main attractions this past weekend at the 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Here are some library resources that take a closer look at the movies that preceded the “talkies.”

The Battleship Potemkin (DVD)
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Kino International (released 1925)
Call Number: PN1997. B75732 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Birth of a Nation (DVD)
Directed by D. W. Griffith. Kino on Video, 2002 (released 1915)
Call Number: PN1997 .B55 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Broken Blossoms, or The Yellow Man and the Girl (DVD)
Directed by D.W. Griffith. Kino on Video, 2002 (released 1919)
Call Number: PN1997 .B7565 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)

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Russian Spies

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Week of July 12, 2010

Russian Spies

In the News: Two weeks ago 10 individuals were arrested in the U.S. and accused of being Russian secret agents following a seven year FBI investigation. None of them faced espionage charges because officials had not found evidence that the individuals sent classified information to Moscow. The U.S. agreed late last week to trade the 10 spies with Russia in return for four men who had been accused of spying for the West.

Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy
By G. Edward White. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: E743.5 .H55 W47 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
By David E. Murphy et al. Yale University Press, 1997
Call Number: E183.8 .S65 M86 1997 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History
By David A. Vise. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002
Call Number: UB271 .R92 H372 2002

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Vampires & Werewolves

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Week of July 6, 2010

Vampires & Werewolves

In the News: Eclipse is now playing in theaters, but bookstores and public libraries are not the only ones with resources for Twilight fans. We, too, have books and videos on vampires, werewolves, and, yes, even some of the titles from the Twilight Saga itself.

Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Edited and with an introduction by Leonard Wolf. Oxford University Press, 1997
Call Number: PR1309 .V36 B58 1997

Breaking Dawn
By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown, 2008
Call Number: PZ7 .M57188 Br 2008 (Children’s Literature Collection)

The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within
By Chantal Bourgault du Coudray. I. B. Tauris, 2006
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

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