California Newsreel's African American Perspectives collection now has the largest discount offer in our 44-year history – a great chance to update and expand your institution’s African American video holdings.
University, Colleges, Government - up to 75% OFF - only $49.95 High School, Public Libraries, HBCUs, Qualifying Community Organizations - 50% OFF - $24.95 (Offer expires 9/1/12)
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books examines 40 years of changing portrayals of Black masculinity in a significant area of popular culture - action comic books. This genre's reach and impact extended into other forms of cultural production, such as movies and animated TV series and continues to influence contemporary representations.
The Manuscripts of Timbuktu shatters the myth that Africa had no written language or intellectual life before European colonialism. It introduces viewers to the thriving economic and cultural world of Timbuktu, which flourished from the 11th to the 18th centuries and influenced much of the world.
Formed in 1960, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was the vanguard organization of the Civil Rights Movement. Julian Bond says that "there is no parallel DVD collection examining the Movement. It offers the opportunity for students to study and research this vital and exciting history told by the people who made it." The Southern Poverty Law Center just released a report on the dismal state of Civil Rights history education in the nation's schools. The SNCC collection provides educators a tool with which to fill this gap.
Blacking Up, winner of the American Library Association's 2011 Notable Videos for Adults Award, offers a provocative look at the popularity of Hip-Hop among America's white youth. It explores whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or is merely a new chapter in the long continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation.
The Pew Research Center recently released an important report on the increase in racial wealth gaps in the United States. "The House We Live In," the third episode of Race - The Power of an Illusion, details how institutional discrimination has contributed to disparities in wealth between African American and white households. Click here to view the Pew report.
Money-Driven Medicineprovides the first and only look on film at the forces underlying - and undermining - healthcare and so provides Americans the framework they need to address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform in the years ahead. The acclaimed film has been showcased on Nightline, Bill Moyers' Journal, and Terry Gross's Fresh Air. It features Dr. Donald Berwick, the pioneer health reformer who led Medicare and Medicaid for the last year.
In an effort to make North America's largest collection of African films more widely available, we are now offering these African feature films and documentaries at the greatly reduced price of $24.95 per DVD! California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema was launched in 1981 with 8 films from 5 different countries to provide film resources to educators and build an appreciation for African cinema. The collection has since grown to more than 70 DVDs from 25 countries, including classic feature films by by internationally renowned master filmmakers like Ousmane Sembene (Faat Kine) and Djibril Diop Mambety (La petite vendeuse de Soleil, Le Franc). Read an article in the Statesman about this uniquely "valuable collection" here.
The pace of change in digital distribution has become so frenzied that Newsreel has had to revise and expand this Producers' Guide To Digital Rights Management just nine months after it was first issued. Today, we are involved in a change, not just in how moving image content is delivered but in how viewers engage it and why. Click the link for your copy of the revised document.
