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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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