New item: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

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Ask for DVD #3227 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition and does so well he gets sent to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and gets caught up in a twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a gay private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies and has been hired to tutor Harry in portraying a private eye.

New item: Shopgirl

Shopgirl

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Ask for DVD #3116 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: An aspiring artist working behind the glove counter at a Beverly Hills department store meets two very different men--Jeremy, a socially inept guy who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and Ray, a wealthy entrepreneur who has the world at his feet.

New item: Ice Age

Ice Age

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Ask for DVD #3285 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, Sid the sloth, and the human baby Scrat become a courageous quartet braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey to return Scrat to human civilization.

New item: Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls

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Ask for DVD #3237 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson, three young African-American women in 1960s Detroit, dream of becoming pop stars. They get their wish after a local talent show when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. As they become more successful, Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman who's become their manager, and Effie's brother C.C., their songwriter, decide that the more traditionally beautiful Deena should be the lead singer instead of Effie, who had been the lead singer and who has a more powerful voice. Over time, each of the girls discovers the costs and compromises exacted by their desire to be in the music business.

New item: Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web

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Ask for DVD #3228 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web, along with a little help from Templeton the rat and the other barn inhabitants, turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.

New item: An Unfinished Life

An Unfinished Life

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Ask for DVD #3195 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranch lands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley, but then suddenly, the woman he blames for the heath of his only son arrives at his door broke, desperate and with a granddaughter he's never known.

New item: Glory Road

Glory Road

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Ask for DVD #3194 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.

New item: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

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Ask for DVD #3144 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: The true story of Evelyn Ryan, a housewife and mother, who uses her knack for words to win thousands of dollars in "jingle contests" to keep her family together.

New item: Thank You for Smoking

Thank You for Smoking

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Ask for DVD #3115 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.

New item: Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

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Ask for DVD #3103 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: When Barbara, a lonely desperate teacher, discovers that the new young art teacher is having an affair with a fifteen-year-old student, her jealously and rage spiral out of control.

New item: A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

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Ask for DVD #3083 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: The true story of a troubled brilliant Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.

New item: The Race Beat

The race beat: The press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation
by Gene Roberts
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Contents: An American dilemma : an astonishing ignorance -- "A fighting press" -- Southern editors in a time of ferment -- Ashmore views the South -- The Brown decisions harden the South -- Into Mississippi -- The Till trial -- Where massive and passive resistance meet -- Alabama -- Toward Little Rock -- LIttle Rock showdown -- New eyes on the old South -- Backfire in Virginia -- From sit-ins to SNCC -- Alabama versus the Times, freedom riders versus the South -- Albany -- Ole Miss -- Wallace and King -- Defiance at close range -- The killing season -- Freedom summer -- Selma -- Beyond.

New item: Convergence Journalism

Convergence journalism: Writing and reporting across the news media
by Janet Kolodzy
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Look for call number PN4784.O62 K66 2006.

Contents: Why convergence? : it's the consumer, stupid -- Consorting with the enemy -- Common values, common goals -- Approaching the story -- Broadcast basics : write simply, think visually -- Print basics : value plus -- Online basics : tying it all together -- Participatory journalism : convergence plus -- News for kids : the next generation.

New item: Creating powerful radio

Creating powerful radio: Getting, keeping, and growing audiences
by Valerie Geller
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Look for call number PN1991.5 .G45 2007.

Contents: Creating powerful radio -- Finding and developing talent -- Generators and reactors -- Performance and formatics -- Morning shows -- From rock to talk -- Talk shows -- Integrating news and talk-- Interviews -- Show prep -- Producers -- Call screening -- High-ego talent -- News -- Traffic and weather together -- Newswriting -- News anchoring -- Multi-version news -- Integrating radio and TV news -- Public service announcements -- Avoiding burnout -- Airchecking -- Promotion -- Sales and commercials -- Lifestage demographics -- Research -- Final notes.

New item: Casino Royale (DVD)

Casino Royale

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Ask for DVD #3088 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

New item: Two Days in October (DVD)

Two Days in October

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Ask for DVD #3066 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin.

New item: Little Children (DVD)

Little Children

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Ask for DVD #3020 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: DVD release of the 2006 motion picture (ca. 137 min.). A young women, Sarah, who's in a loveless marriage, connects with Brad, a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker while the whole neighborhood has to deal with Ronnie who is just out of prison for indecent exposure.

New item: Fast Food Nation (DVD)

Fast Food Nation

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Ask for DVD #3011 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Mickey's is the most popular fast-food chain in America, and The Big One is the top-selling burger that put them on the map. When the higher-ups at Mickey's corporate offices learn that the frozen meat patties used to make the wildly popular burger have a high fecal content, they send marketing executive Don Henderson on an urgent mission to ensure quality control and find out precisely how their product became compromised. The further Henderson works his way through the bustling feedlots and toward the ubiquitous restaurant sites that have become a staple of modern culture, the more he begins to realize just how dangerous convenience can become when it leads to blissfully ignorant complacency.

New item: Dude, Where's My Job? (DVD)

Dude, Where's My Job?

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Ask for DVD #3002 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Consists of a six-lesson program intended to instruct high school students in the steps necessary to get a job. Covers prospecting for jobs, determining whether a potential job is a good fit, getting a foot in the door, writing a resume, preparing for a job interview, and selling oneself and answering tough questions in an interview situation.

New item: Blood Diamond (DVD)

Blood Diamond

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Ask for DVD #2991 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African diamond fields, Solomon Vandy discovers an extraordinary rough stone of immeasurable value. Danny Archer is a hired gun who specializes in the sale of so-called "blood diamonds" that are used to finance rebellions and terrorist organizations, and is currently serving time for smuggling. As a bloody civil war rages in Sierra Leone and Archer learns that Vandy has safely hidden the diamond in a place where no one would ever suspect, the pair enlist the aid of disillusioned American journalist Maddy Bowen in recovering the treasure that has the power to save Vandy's family and provide the desperate Archer with a much-needed chance for redemption.

New item: Marie Antoinette (DVD)

Marie Antoinette

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Ask for DVD #2915 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: DVD release of the 2006 motion picture (ca. 123 min.). Tells the story of Marie Antoinette. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie is only 14 years old when she is pledged to marry Louis XVI, the 15 year old king of France in an alliance that is to ensure peace between Austria and France. Literally stripped of her former life, she is wed to the king who is indifferent and either unwilling or unable to consummate their marriage. More than a bit out of step of the new life that has been thrust upon her, Marie gives herself over to the many pleasures of Versailles while the beginnings of the French Revolution stir.

New item: Radio Modernism

Radio modernism : literature, ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938
by Todd Avery
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Look for call number PN1991.3.G7 A94 2006.

Contents: Introduction : modernism in the air -- Arnold over Britain? : John Reith and broadcasting morality -- Common talkers : the Bloomsbury Group and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting -- A natural selection : H.G. Wells and a Huxleyan ethics of communications -- Talks toward a definition of morality : T.S. Eliot and the consecration of broadcasting.

New item: Pursuit of Happyness (DVD)

The Pursuit of Happyness

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Ask for DVD #2884 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Widescreen ed., DVD (ca. 117 min.). Inspired by a true story, tells the story of a single father, Chris Gardner, who in 1980s San Francisco turns his life around from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm. After his wife, who works double shifts to support the family, leaves Chris for taking an unpaid internship at Dean Whitter, Chris is left to care for himself and for his child. In an unstable economic climate, Chris overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles to turn his entire life around.

New item: The Best of Everything (DVD)

The Best of Everything

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Ask for DVD #2839 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: DVD release of the 1959 motion picture. (121 min.) Caroline Bender is a recent graduate of a prestigious women's college who wants to make her mark in the publishing industry. She gets a job in the secretarial pool of Fabian Publishing, hoping to rise through the ranks and become an editor, and soon takes an apartment with three of her co-workers. Caroline quickly realizes that she has a catbird seat to witness the romantic entanglements and office politics of Fabian's many female employees.