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The Message of Myth

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jospeh Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: Program Two: The Message of Myth
Call Number: VHS00192
by Joseph Campbell; Bill D Moyers; Catherine Tatge; Joan Konner; Alvin H Perlmutter; Apostrophe S Productions (Firm); Public Affairs Television (Firm); Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Mystic Fire Video, [1988],
Notes: Originally aired in 1988 (60 mins.);
Summary: Campbell compares the creation stories in Genesis with creation stories from around the world. Because the world changes, religion has to be transformed and new mythologies created. People today are stuck with old metaphors and myths that don’t fit their needs.
OCLC #: 29066401
Also: Program One: The Hero’s Adventure (VHS00193); Program Three: The First Storytellers (VHS00191); Program Four: Sacrifice and Bliss (VHS00190); Program Five: Love and the Goddess (VHS00189); Program Six: Masks of Eternity (VHS00188)
Added: October 27, 2008
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The First Storytellers

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jospeh Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: Program Three: The First Storytellers
Call Number: VHS00191
by Bill D Moyers; Catherine Tatge; Joseph Campbell; Apostrophe S Productions.; Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.; Public Affairs Television (Firm); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.); Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Mystic Fire Video, [1988],
Notes: Originally aired in 1988 (60 mins.);
Summary: Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth as in the myth of the buffalo and the story of Christ, the rite of passage in primitive societies, the role of mystical Shamans, and the decline of ritual in today’s society.
OCLC #: 29066758
Also: Program One: The Hero’s Adventure (VHS00193); Program Two: The Message of the Myth (VHS00192); Program Four: Sacrifice and Bliss (VHS00190); Program Five: Love and the Goddess (VHS00189); Program Six: Masks of Eternity (VHS00188)
Added: October 27, 2008
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Sacrifice and Bliss

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jospeh Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: Program Four: Sacrifice and Bliss
Call Number: VHS00190
by  Bill D Moyers; Catherine Tatge; Joseph Campbell; Apostrophe S Productions.; Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.; Public Affairs Television (Firm); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.); Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Mystic Fire Video, [1988],
Notes: Originally aired in 1988 (60 mins.);
Summary: Campbell discusses the role of sacrifice in myth, which symbolizes the necessity for rebirth. He also talks about the significance of sacrifice — in particular, a mother’s sacrifice for her child, and the sacrifice to the relationship in marriage — and stresses the need for every one of us to find our sacred place in the midst of today’s fast-paced, technological world.
OCLC #: 29066687
Also: Program One: The Hero’s Adventure (VHS00193); Program Two: The Message of the Myth (VHS00192); Program Three: The First Storytellers (VHS00191); Program Five: Love and the Goddess (VHS00189); Program Six: Masks of Eternity (VHS00188)
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Love and the Goddess

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jospeh Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: Program Five: Love and the Goddess
Call Number: VHS00189
by Bill D Moyers; Catherine Tatge; Joseph Campbell; Apostrophe S Productions.; Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.; Public Affairs Television (Firm); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.); Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Mystic Fire Video, [1988],
Notes: Originally aired in 1988 (60 mins.);
Summary: Campbell talks about romantic love, beginning with the 12th century troubadours, and addresses questions about the image of woman — as goddess, virgin and Mother Earth.
OCLC #: 29066612
Also: Program One: The Hero’s Adventure (VHS00193); Program Two: The Message of the Myth (VHS00192); Program Three: The First Storytellers (VHS00191); Program Four: Sacrifice and Bliss (VHS00190); Program Six: Masks of Eternity (VHS00188)
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Masks of Eternity

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jospeh Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: Program Six: Masks of Eternity
Call Number: VHS00188
by Joseph Campbell; Joan Konner; Alvin H Perlmutter; Catherine Tatge; Vera Aronow; David Grubin; Bill D Moyers; Richard Peaslee; Apostrophe S Productions.; Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.; Public Affairs Television (Firm); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.); Mystic Fire Video, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Mystic Fire Video, [1988],
Notes: Originally aired in 1988 (60 mins.);
Summary: The last of six one-hour interviews by Bill Moyers with the renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell. Calling the many images of God the masks of eternity, Campbell provides challenging insights into the concepts of God, religion and eternity, as revealed in Christian teachings and the beliefs of Buddhists, Navajo Indians, Schopenhauer, Jung and others
OCLC #: 35003422
Also: Program One: The Hero’s Adventure (VHS00193); Program Two: The Message of the Myth (VHS00192); Program Three: The First Storytellers (VHS00191); Program Four: Sacrifice and Bliss (VHS00190); Program Five: Love and the Goddess (VHS00189);
Added: October 27, 2008
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More Than Bows and Arrows

Monday, October 27th, 2008
More than Bows and Arrows
Call Number: VHS00187
by Gray Warriner; Conrad Denke; N Scott Momaday; 13th Regional Corporation (Seattle, Wash.); Camera One Productions.; ; et al
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Seattle, WA : Camera One, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1978 (60 mins.)
Summary: Deals with the role of the American Indian in shaping various aspects of American culture, ranging from food and housing to the democratic way of life.
OCLC #: 26826251
Added: October 27, 2008
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Erin Brockovich

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Erin Brockovich
Call Number: VHS00186
by Danny DeVito; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher; Steven Soderbergh; Julia Roberts; Albert Finney; Aaron Eckhart; Anne V Coates; Thomas Newman; Susannah Grant; Universal Pictures (Firm); Columbia Pictures.; Jersey Films.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm); DVS Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Video ; [Boston] : DVS Home Video, ©2000.
Notes: Originally released in 2000 (132 mins.); Nominated for five 2001 Academy Awards;
Summary: Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a law case against a giant corporation for water pollution. Erin’s determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin a legal fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
OCLC #: 48475754
Added: October 27, 2008
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The Home and the World

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Ghare-Băire
Call Number: VHS00185
by Satyajit Ray; Soumitra Chatterjee; Victor Banerjee; Swatilekha Chatterjee; Soumendu Roy; Dulal Dutta; Rabindranath Tagore; National Film Development Corporation of India.; Embassy Home Entertainment.; European Classics, Ltd.;
Format: VHS
Language: Bangali and English dialogue with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Nelson Entertainment : Embassy Home Entertainment, [1986?].
Notes: Originally released in 1984 (130 mins.); Based on the Nobel Prize winning novel Ghare-Băire by Rabindranath Tagore; Edition was produced in the International Collection;
Summary: A woman falls in love with her husband’s boyhood friend and his political ideals.
OCLC #: 77661957
Added: October 27, 2008
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The King and I

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I
Call Number: VHS00184
by Darryl Francis Zanuck; Deborah Kerr; Yul Brynner; Oscar Hammerstein; Richard Rodgers; Margaret Landon; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Fox Video, ©1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1956 (133 mins.); Adapted from Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s musical play based on Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon; Nominated for nine 1957 Academy Awards; Edition is included in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Golden Anniversary series;
Summary: Tells the story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860s.
OCLC #: 43749503
Also: See Anna and the King of Siam (VHS00090);
Added: October 27, 2008
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Z

Monday, October 27th, 2008
 
Z
Call Number: VHS00183 Copy 1
VHS00183 Copy 2
by Yves Montand; Irene Papas; Jean Louis Trintignant;  Costa-Gavras; Vasilēs Vasilikos; Reggane Films.; Axon Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Axon Video Corp., 1989.; Copy 2: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1969 (128 mins.); Nominated for five 1970 Academy Awards; Based on a novel by Vasilēs Vasilikos;
Summary: A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist’s persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 20405410; Copy 2: 44605126
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