Collection
The General Video Collection is made up of VHS and DVDs that FSU faculty have requested with monies allocated to their departments through the University Libraries Acquisitions Department. Materials in our collection are available to the university and are managed through the Digital Media Center. To request materials for this collection please check with your department to see what funds are available and use the “New Materials…” link located under “Forms” on the Libraries home page. During parts of the year the link will be offline, signifying that the Libraries are not currently ordering materials, however if there is a video that is essential to your instruction, then please contact the Digital Media Center.
New Videos
 Pan's Labyrinth Mexican director Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed this adult fairytale about the ultimate transcendence of innocence during one instant of the Spanish Civil War.
 Shane The plot and theme of this 1953 Western--the mysterious stranger resorts to violence in order to defend the innocent--has found its way into modern Westerns like Pale Rider and Unforgiven. Cinematographer Loyal Griggs won an Oscar for his work on this film.
 Touch of Evil This film has had no fewer than four versions, and the version on this DVD is the 1998 synthesis of director Orson Welles' original cut and the reshoots done before the film's release by Harry Keller on behalf of Universal International.
 Weekend Jean-Luc Godard challenged his audience to make sense of Weekend by bending and breaking the conventions that have governed filmmaking for decades. Fortunately, at least for the twenty-first century viewer, Hollywood has co-opted most of Godard's experiments and rendered them mainstream.
 Boudu Saved from Drowning This Criterion Collection DVD edition of Boudu Saved from Drowning comes packed with extras, including an old introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir himself.
 Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Paradise Lost examines the evidence and testimony of a 1993 West Memphis, Arkansas court case that left two young men condemned to life in prison and a third doomed to death.
 Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She For most people, gender ranks with taxes and death as one of life's few certainties. Middle Sexes explores how cultures around the world treat those who, through biology or choice, dispell the illusion of sexual dichotomy.
 Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet Observe backstage the Paris Opera Ballet and hear firsthand accounts of the lives and work of professional dancers.
 A History of Punishment This video, part of The Evolution of Society series from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, explores the relationship among crime, punishment and societal values across history.
 Moon Water The music of Bach meets movements inspired by Tai Chi in this piece coreographed by Lin Hwai-Min and performed by the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. The DVD includes a 24-page booklet containing information about the piece, the performers, and the choreographer.
 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Like a sane Catch 22, Captain Corelli's Mandolin spares no details in its depiction of the difficulties and privations a soldier faces when stationed on a peaceful Mediterranean island during wartime. After all, food, music and the love of a beautiful woman can sustain one for only so long.
 Ben-Hur A 1959 winner of 11 Oscars, Ben-Hur epitomizes both the Big Hollywood Picture and the Sword-and-Sandal Epic. The Digital Media Center now owns the four-disc DVD edition of this classic, which includes the 1959 film starring Charlton Heston, a silent version from 1925, and numerous documentaries.
 Eraserhead Some consider David Lynch's surreal, esoteric and evocative Eraserhead the perfect cult film. Others give up after twenty minutes, questioning the taste and sanity of those who recommend it. Where do you stand?
 The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection Vols. I-III Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin form the triumvirate of silent film comedy. The volumes comprising The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection contain fourteen feature-length films and an equal number of shorts distributed over seven DVDs.
 Capote Capote is to the story behind the writing of In Cold Blood as In Cold Blood is to the facts of the murder case documented within. That is, it lies somewhere outside total fact, but the liberties it takes help create a more compelling film.
 Žižek! Slavoj Žižek, Solvenian Lacanian and filmmaker Astra Taylor's dearest theorist, has many opinions. The difference between his and most everyone else's is that people sometimes pay for his.
 Volver Volver brings Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar together again for Almodóvar's sixteenth film. Set in provincial Spain, the film treats serious subjects--the resiliance of women, love, grief--with a touch of humor.
 Jarhead Hollywood has produced scores of films over the years detailing the courage and valor of America's Marines, but with Jarhead, director Sam Mendes allows us to see Marines following their most common order during Operation Desert Storm: hurry up and wait.
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