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Qeros: Shape of Survival
[VHS 935]      19--      Mystic Fire Video
1/2" video       Color    1 cass., 50 min.
Study of the Qeros Indians of the Peruvian Andes. Their basic cultural patterns remain virtually unchanged for 3,000 years. Discusses the difficulties of the existence of their culture in the "civilized" world.

A Question of Color
[VHS 707]      1992      California Newsreel
1/2" video       Color      1 cass., 60 min.
Confronts the issue of color consciousness in the black community. Explores the effect of a caste system based on how closely skin color, facial features, and hair texture conform to a European ideal. Discusses experiences and attitudes towards color.

Quick Brown Fox: An Alzheimer’s Story
[DVD 1058]    2004    White Noise
1/2" video       Color    1 cass., 57 min.
Chronicles a still greatly misunderstood yet now-epidemic illness through the lens of one family’s struggle. Producer/writer Ann Hedreen takes viewers with her as she attempts to understand the illness that destroyed her mother.
Subjects – Diseases: Alzheimer’s

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
[DVD 1057]    2004    Philip Zimbardo/Stanford University
1/2" video      Color    1 cass., 50 min.
Discusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil or does evil triumph? This is a dramatic demonstration of the power of social situations that is relevant to many institutional settings. Includes new film, flashback editing, follow-ups 20-years later, and an original music score; reveals the chronology of the transition of good into evil, of normal into the abnormal.
Subjects – Psychology ; Crime and Criminals

Quiz Show
[DVD 669]     1994     Hollywood Pictures
4 3/4" DVD    Color    1 videodisc, 133 min.
An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.Cast: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow. Directed by Robert Redford.
Subjects – Movies and Plays ; Television, Film & Video ; Law & Government


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