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{ items: [ { label: 'BI 001', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Marianne Hirsch, Eva Hoffman, & Susan Suleiman', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Panel moderated by Monika Totten on March 14, 2000.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES, 9/2000.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'EASTERN EUROPE: MEMOIRS, MEMORY, HISTORY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '91"', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'BI 002', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Josiah David Seale, Melissa Edoh, Toh Ne Win and Madlena', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Panel moderated by Isabelle de Courtivron on September 20, 2000.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 9/20/2000', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'GROWING UP AMONG WORLDS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '80"', video_subtitles: 'In English no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 003', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne-Laure Folly, and Veronique Tadjo', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Panel presentation and discussion moderated by Isabelle de Courtivron on March 13, 2001.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES, 3/13/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL ART IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'48"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 004', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Oliver, José F. A.', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Poetry reading and discussion by the author at MIT on April 8, 2001. Introduction by Ellen Crocker.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 4/8/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'FERNLAUTMETZ - CANTERO DE SONIDOS LEJANO: LIVING AND WRITING IN GERMAN AND SPANISH', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'19"', video_subtitles: 'German, Spanish and English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 005', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Aciman, André', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Talk by essayist André Aciman given at MIT on April 10, 2001. Introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 4/10/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'IRONY AND IDENTITY: THE INVENTION OF PAPER SELVES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'In English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 006', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Hagege, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Talk given at MIT on October 16, 2001. Introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 10/16/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: BIRTH, DEATH AND RESURRECTION', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'In English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 007', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Hagege, Claude', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Talk given at MIT on October 17, 2001. Introduction by Gilberte Furstenberg.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 10/17/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE: REAL OR IMAGINED THREAT?', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'45"', video_subtitles: 'In English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 008', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Ghosh, Amitav', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Talk given by Amitav Ghosh at MIT on October 25, 2001. Introduction by Arundhati Banerjee.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 10/25/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'GREATEST SORROW, THE: TIMES OF JOY RECALLED IN WRETCHEDNESS - SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE AND COMMUNAL VIOLENCE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1"19"', video_subtitles: 'In English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 009', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Sebbar, Leila', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Talk given at MIT on November 1, 2001. Introduction by Susan Slyomovics. Translations by Odile Cazenave, Isabelle de Courtivron, and Susan Slyomovics.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Recorded at MIT by CAES 11/1/2001.', submitted_by: 'de Courtivron', text_or_script: '', title: 'ARABIC: THE SILENCED FATHER TONGUE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'27"', video_subtitles: 'In French, translation provided.' } , { label: 'BI 010', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Makine, Andrei', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Presentation at MIT on April 11, 2000. Introduction by Eva Hoffman. Readings in English by Maxime Shrier.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 4/11/2000.', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'A BILINGUAL READING', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'French and English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 011', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Stavans, Ilán', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Lecture given at MIT on Nov. 15, 2001. Introduction by Nicholas Wey-Gomez.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 2001', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'ON BORROWED WORDS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY FROM YIDDISH TO SPANGLISH', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 012', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Rodriquez, Richard', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Lecture given at MIT on March 19, 2002. Introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 2002', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'AMERICAN TONGUE, THE - MY LIFE EN INGLES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'09"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 013', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Professor Wang, Ms. Lian Yirong, and Mr. Jia Jianguo', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Presentation at MIT on May, 8, 2002. Introduction by Julian Wheatley. Susan Blader, professor at Dartmouth College, makes opening comments on Chinese Mandarin "narrative performance" (i.e. storytelling).', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 2002', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'CHINESE STORYTELLERS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\'17"', video_subtitles: 'Introduction in English, stories told in Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 014', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Geok-lin Lim, Shirley', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Lecture on April 29, 1999. Introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 1999', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'MEMORY AND THE NEW-BORN, THE MATERNAL IMAGINATION IN DIASPORA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '83"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 015', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Ferre, Rosario', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Lecture given by Rosario Ferre at MIT on April 9, 2003. Introduction by Elizabeth Garrels.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 2003', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'SPANISH & ENGLISH: TWO SIDES OF THE LOOKING GLASS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\' 09"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 016', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Lim, Keller, Hagedorn, Lahiri, Chang, Bhabha, Ching, Hu-DeHart, Okihiro, & Nair', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A series of lectures.Tape 1: Presentation on October 23, 2003. An Evening with Authors: Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Nora Okja Keller and Jessica Hagedorn. Tape 2: Presentation on October 24, 2003. An Evening with Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri and Lan Samantha ChangTape 3: Roundtable discussion on October 25, 2003 with Homi Bhabha, Leo Ching, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, and Gary Okihiro Tape 4: Mira Nair presentation on October 25, 2003.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 2003', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'BEYOND U.S. MULTICULTURALISM? ASIAN DIASPORAS AND NEW TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '75" each', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 017', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Santiago, Esmeralda', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Presentation by Esmeralda Santiago April 7, 1999. Introduction by Suzanne Flynn.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 1999', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'WRITING A LIFE / ESCRIBIR UNA VIDA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '75"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 018', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Hoffman, Eva', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Eva Hoffman lecture on Feb. 24, 1999. Introduction by Isabelle de Courtivron.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 1999', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'BETWEEN WORDS, BETWEEN WORLDS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '75"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 019', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Ni Dhomnail, Nuala', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Nuala Ni Dhomnail presentation on March 11, 1999. Introduction by John Hildebidle.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 1999', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'ME/MISE: SHORING UP AN IDENTITY IN TWO LANGUAGES', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '75"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'BI 020', type: 'Item', language: 'Bilingual/Bicultural Studies', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Tawada, Yoko', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Yoko Tawada presentation on Feb. 17, 1999. Introduction by Bernd Widdig.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'MIT Video Productions, 1999', submitted_by: 'FL&L', text_or_script: '', title: 'METAMORPHOSES: A TRILINGUAL READING', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '75"', video_subtitles: 'In Japanese, German, and English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 001', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Liu, Yuehua', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Workbook Vol. II, Part II is available. First tape in this set is for the workbook exercises. The following tapes are for the textbook lessons. Course stresses listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Liu', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'INTEGRATED CHINESE, Level 2', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 002', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Hearn, Rob', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This film portrays an ancient story of romance and humor told through the medium of Chinese Opera and specially intended for the video format. Includes explanatory commentary on performance and culture.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'KULTUR International Films, W. Long Branch, NJ, 1981.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PERFUMED HANDKERCHIEF, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '70"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese and English with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 003', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Two-part documentary. This video will take the viewer to many of China\'s most pituresque and historically significant sites.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Nan Hai Co., Millbrae, CA.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HESHANG (The River Elegy) VOL. 1 & 2', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Vol. 1 - 1\' 50" Vol. 2 - 1\' 46"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 005', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '0', description: 'Based on the novel by Su Tong. In the 1920\'s, a young girl becomes Fourth Wife to a wealthy man and the subsequent rivalry for affection between the women arouses jealousy and misfortune.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '0', publication_info: 'Orion Pictures, 1991.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (Raise the Red Lantern)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese Mandarin with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 005B', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Based on the novel by Su Tong. In the 1920\'s, a young girl becomes Fourth Wife to a wealthy man and the subsequent rivalry for affection between the women arouses jealousy and misfortune.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Orion Pictures, 1991.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (Raise the Red Lantern)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese Mandarin with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 006', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Teng, Shou-Hsin and Yuehau, Liu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Two videotapes with ten short TV plays in Mandarin (Beijing dialect) that were shown on Beijing television. Tape 1: 1. One Dollar Affair; 2. Watermelon Girl; 3. To Trade a Father; 4. A Bride; 5. A Family Serenade. Tape 2: 6. A Pink Sweater; 7. A Man\'s Capacity; 8. Happiness in Golden Age; 9. Fog vs. Dew; 10. Marriage/Teacher Wang.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Cheng & Tsui Co, Boston, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHORT CHINESE TV PLAYS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Each segment is 10-15", each video 70"+', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 007', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'In 1930s China a young woman, Jiu\'er, is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies Jiu\'er finds herself inheriting the isolated business and she sets up an idealized, quasi-matriarchal community. Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road. But the community rises up and resists. In the process of resisting the Japanese, Jiu\'er dies.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Mei Ah Entertainment, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HONG GAOLIANG (Red Sorghum)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '91"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese Mandarin with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 009', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang and Liang, Yang Feng', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Set in a dye factory, the film chronicles the tragic relationship between a beautiful young woman, the elderly, embittered and impotent typant to whom she is sold in marriage, and his nephew to whom she turns for salvation. When Ju Dou and Tian Qing succumb to their mutual desire, their breach of Confucian traditiion leads to a vengeful chain of events.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., 1990.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JU DOU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '96"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 010', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'The story is centered on the centuries old search for water in a small mountain village. A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: '1986', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LAO JING (Old Well)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 011', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Sang, Hu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Film is an adaptation of an original story by Lu Xun. The film, produced in 1956, takes place in the years just before an after the Revolution of 1911 and tells the story of a young widow, Xianglin.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1956', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ZHU FU (New Year Sacrifice)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 012', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Sun Daolin', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This adaptation of an original work by Cao Yu is set at the turn of the century and tells a story of complicated love affairs and family relationships.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1961', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LEI YU (Thunderstorm)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '119"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 013', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Literature'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Contains: The Artist; Oppression; Poetry; Life\'s great affair; After returning home.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'READINGS ON CONTEMPORARY CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 014', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chen, Kaige', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A Communist soldier is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the Army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Nan Hai Co., Inc., CA, 1984', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HUANG TUDI (Yellow Earth)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 015', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yu, Cao', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Yih-jian Tai directs this production of the play by Cao Yu, a famous 20th century playwrite who was influenced by Eugene O\'Neil.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Produced jointly by the Chinese Culture Institute and Asia Onstage, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WILD LAND, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '123"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 016', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Three performances of the Peking Opera. Tape 1: The Three Encounters: a martial ar piece also known as "Fighting in the Dark." The performers, although flooded in light, give the illusion of a fight in total darkness by their symbolic gestures. The Magic Pearl: dramatization of a short episode from the famous Ming Dynasty novel, Journey to the West. A very interesting piece displaying acrobatics. Tape 2: Monkey King\'s Batle with the Eighteen Arhats: dramatization of an episode from the famous Ming Dynasty novel, Journey to the West. An exciting piece displaying acrobatics and martial arts.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Culture and Art Audio & Video (CAAV), China, [1996]', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PEKING OPERA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Tape 1: 1\'06" Tape 2: 46"', video_subtitles: 'Music, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 017', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chao, Yuen Ren', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-24.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'MANDARIN PRIMER', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 018', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Contains: Thunderstorm; To Learn a trade; Tape 8; Wedding march (tape 9); Untitled; Articles on Chinese life and culture; The story of No Ar; Short Chinese Plays.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, 1980.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE STORIES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 019', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Jarvis, Lucy', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A video filmed by Lucy Jarvis, the first Westerner allowed to film inside Communist China. A look at the mystery, opulence and grandeur of Peking - sights and entertainment sequences.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'National Broadcasting, 1963', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINA AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 020', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Ch\'en, Ta-Tuan et al', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Set begins with Foundation Work. Following this, each lesson has a vocabulary introduction, then dialogues from the main text. A final section on Chinese Characters introduces formation and pronunciation of each character and shows sample sentences which include the character. Videotapes accompany this material. In the Foundation Work video an instructor presents this material. The Chinese Primer Units provides an enactment of the conversations in the text.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape', 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1986.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CHINESE PRIMER', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '', video_subtitles: 'Chinese and some English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 021', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chaowu, Fu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1980. A romantic Chinese legend. Two snake-faries long to live as mortals, so they transform themselves into a lady, Lady White, and her maidservant. Lady White meets and falls in love with Xu Xian, an herbalist, but an evil monk discovers Lady White\'s true identity and separates the lovers by trapping the white snake under a pagoda. There she remains for centuries until green snake musters troops and topples the pagoda.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Solid Video Ltd., Hong Kong, 1983.', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BAISHE ZHUAN (Legend of the White Snake)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '145"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 022', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chin, Tao', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1956. A screen version of a Kunchu opera - adopted from a famous romance. Yu Hu-lu, a butcher, comes home confused with 15 strings of cash he has borrowed somewhere. He jestingly tells his foster daughter he has sold her. During the night she decides to run away during, and a thug comes by , steals the money, and kills Yu. People suspect Su. When they find her and a fellow traveler with has 15 strings of cash, they are brought before the magistrate and sentenced to death. Will justice prevail?', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Video Movies, Hong Kong.', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FIFTEEN STRINGS OF CASH', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '123"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 023', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yu, Zhou', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1961. A famous love story set during the Ming Dynasty. Legendary courtesan Du Shiniang sacrifices everything to be with her lover, Li Jia. but Li gets word that his father is furious with him and is finally persuaded to sell Du to a salt merchant. Du refuses to submit to the will of these two shelfish men and throws herself into the river, taking control of her own destiny.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1961', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BEAUTIFUL COURTESAN', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '137"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 024', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Peirong, Wu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1980. A couple falls in love, and a friend decides to play a prank that backfires and the couple are arrested for murder. The joker finally decides to help his friend, but then he and his lover are arrested. A third official decides there is something fishy about the case and has it reinvestigated.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Video Movies, 1980', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'YANZHI', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '137"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 025', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'T\'ung, P.C. and School of Oriental & African Studies', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Verbatim recording of the Chinese content of Colloquial Chinese. Each lesson is recorded in the order: vocabulary list, narratives, dialogues, and speech patterns. 17 lessons.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, [1997]', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'COLLOQUIAL CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 026', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chou, Chih-p\'ing and Chao, Derlin', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Standard Mandarin, 22 lessons.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '(text) Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992. (audio) Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Lui', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'INTERMEDIATE READER OF MODERN CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 027', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of (mostly) short dialogues geared to the lesons of Colloquial Chinese - about 10 dialogues per lesson. The dialogues are recorded whole and then repeated phrase-by phrase to English cues. 16 lessons.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MANDARIN BASIC DIALOGUES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 028', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of interactive exercises designed to introduce or consolidate each lesson of the introductory course. Scripts contain hints, models and new vocabulary. 14 lessons.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca NY, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MANDARIN TO REVIEW', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 029', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of 5 lessons (1, 1a, 2, 3, 4). with exercises on the sounds and representation (pinyin) of standard Chinese. Intended for a beginning-level course, but can also be used selectively by more advanced students. Exercises and answer sheets available.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca NY, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MANDARIN PRONUNCIATION AND ROMANIZATION', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 030', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Teng, Shou-hsin', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'An intermediate level course which brings to life the superstitions, customs, practices and manners of present-day Chinese in Taiwan. Designed to develop conversation and reading skills.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Shou-hsin Teng, 1997.', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TAIWAN TODAY: AN INTERMEDIATE COURSE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 031', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Ni Zhang, Phyllis', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Audio: L. 1-18, and Listening Comprehension1-18 in Mandarin Chinese. Lessons are built around dialogues and narratives which are supplemented by many forms of exercises and cultural notes. Goal of the course is to advance listening and speaking skills as well as reading and writing proficiency. CD-ROM contains 108 character animations - 6 characters for each of the 18 chapters. Animations show the correct stroke order and stroke shape. Audio copyright Phyllis Ni Zhang, 1999.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette', 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Audio: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1999. Character Animations produced by LLARC at MIT, 2002.', submitted_by: 'Chen / Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAVID AND HELEN IN CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 032', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Wang, Fred', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Verbatim reading of the text; helpful to listen while reading a character text.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, New Haven CT, [1998]', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LADY IN THE PAINTING, THE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 033', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A video tour of Hong Kong Harbor, small antique shops, food stalls, duty free shops, and more. Travel on the Kowloon Canton Railway and jet-foil across the Pearl River estuary to visit Macau, known as the "Monaco of the East".', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'International Video Network, San Ramon, CA, 1987', submitted_by: 'Teng', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'IMPRESSIONS OF HONG KONG AND MACAU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '24"', video_subtitles: 'In English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 034', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A video tour of the island of Taiwan. Visits to a museum, the Grand Hotel, Snake Alley, Taroko Gorge, Mount Ali, and others. There are interviews with the People of the Dragon, a master chef, a Buddhist nun, and an acupuncturist.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'International Video Network, San Ramon, CA, 1987', submitted_by: 'Teng', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TAIWAN: EXOTIC BLOSSOM OF THE ORIENT', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '50"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 035', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chang, Richard', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Verbatim reading of Richard F. Chang\'s \'Chinese Mythical Stories\', two well known Chinese folktales, retold in language that intermediate level students can understand. The two are: (1) the story of \'Houyi Shooting the Sun and Chang\'s Fleeing to the Moon\'; and (2) the \'Tale of the White Snake\'. NOTE: Part 4 of this series is damaged, and can not be used.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cronell University, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Bi', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE MYTHICAL STORIES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 036', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A documentary on Chinese history from ancient times to the present which will give the viewer a better understanding of China\'s 5,000 years of civilization.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Madacy Entertainment Group, Quebec, 1996.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HISTORY AND THE MYSTERY, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 037', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional movie. To obtain real data about the common people\'s life and the societe as well, Emperor Qian Long decides to personally travel to the south. The story tells of his experiences on this trip south.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Zhujiang Studio, Guangzhou [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'EMPEROR QIAN LONG ON THE TRIP TO THE SOUTH', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\'30"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 038', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional movie. In the early 1980\'s China\'s first economic zone, Shenzhen, attracts many young people eager to realize their dream. This movie describes several girls from the countryside and how their life changes after coming to the zone.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Zhujiang Studio, Guangzhou [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WORKING GIRLS IN THE ECONOMIC ZONE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 039', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional movie about a Chinese legend, Monk Ji Gong. In the movie, Monk Ji Gong uses his magic to help the poor and criticizes corruption.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Audio Visual Publishing House, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MONK JI GONG', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\' 30"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 040', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional story about a common Chinese countryside family living in the northeast, and what happens to them when they celebrate the traditional Chinese New Year - Spring Festival.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Film Studio and Wahne Video Ltd, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 041', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional love story. As people\'s standard of living improves, their philosophy about love also changes. Three young ladies love one man, but see how they solve this problem.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Shanghai Studio, Shanghai [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'THREE YOUNG LADIES HAVE THE SAME DREAM', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 042', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Through children\'s story telling and performances, the Chinese traditional festival - Chinese New Year - and its traditions are introduced.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China TV Program Center, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CELEBRATING THE CHINESE NEW YEAR - CHILDREN\'S PERFORMANCE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 043', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Chinese traditions and customs about spending Chinese New Year are introduced through a series of lectures.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Research Center for Traditional Chinese Culture, Beijing University, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE NEW YEAR', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 044', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Tai Ji Quan is a very popular form of exercise in China as well as the rest of the world. This video teaches a simplified 24 movement Tai Ji Quan - easy to learn and good for one\'s health.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing University, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SIMPLIFIED TAI JI QUAN - 24 FORMS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 045', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Everyone knows Chinese food is delicious and healthy. But how can we learn the art of Chinese cooking? From this videotape we will learn how to cook some of the most delicious but easiest Chinese food.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing TV Station, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE CUISINE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 046', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Beijing opera is the most popular form of opera in China. Do you want to know why? Its history? What does it look like? Its music? Its costumes? Then come and look at this tape. It has what you need.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CCTV, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'COLLECTION OF BEIJING OPERAS, A', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 047', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This Beijing opera is about a Chinese traditional legend, widely known in China. Do you want to know the legend? Listen to beautiful music? See the beautiful costumes? Understand the story? This video will give you all of this.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Studio, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'STORY OF THE WHITE SNAKE, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\' 15"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 048', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'There are many beautiful mountains in China, but among them there are four that are associated with Buddhism. Do you want to know about Buddhist history? Get a better understanding of Buddhism? Know why these four mountains are special for Buddhists? This video will provide the answers.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CCTV, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FOUR OF THE MOST FAMOUS BUDDHIST MOUNTAINS IN CHINA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 049', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Bai, Jianhau', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'This book is designed to actively engage the student in meaningful communication within various contexts. It tries to meet a variety of individual needs by providing a large pool of supplementary vocabulary. Each of the 15 chapters consist of a model dialogue, a set of discussion questions, a list of new words, and grammar explanations.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'J. Bai, J. Sung, and J. Zhiqun Xing, 1996.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BEYOND THE BASICS: COMMUNICATIVE CHINESE FOR INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED LEARNERS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 050', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'L. 1-12. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1997.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TALKS ON CHINESE CULTURE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 051', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Wheatley, Julian and Tong Chen', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-2', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded by Wheatley & Chen for MIT', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MANDARIN SOUND & SYMBOLS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 052', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Steps 1-11. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded by J. wheatley for M.I.T.', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FIRST STEPS IN CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 053', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-24 and L. 31. Lessons 25, 28, 32, 33 Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'OH CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 054', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Dialogues 1a - 8a. Recorded by faculty at MIT.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2000', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'INTERMEDIATE CHINESE READINGS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 055', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-5 , recorded by MIT faculty.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2000.', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NEW TEXT FOR MODERN CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 056', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-15. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2001.', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SPOTLIGHT ON CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 057', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lesson 1 only. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2002', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'Learning Chinese: A Beginning Course', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 058', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Shih, Chung-wen', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'This cd-rom is designed for use in an intermediate or advanced college Chinese language course. It may also be used for self-study. The program integrates authentic Chinese materials, video interviews with leading writers (Ba Jin, Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Cao Yu, and Ai Quing), archival footage, performances of the writers\' works, and commentary on contemporary China.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Columbia university, New York, 2002', submitted_by: 'Jin Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LEARN CHINESE FROM MODERN WRITERS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 060', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Yang', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Five tales of love in contemporary Beijing. One obsessed youth uses his recording skills to edit together an "I love you" from his crush, while another boy hopes to reconcile his bickering parents by putting a magic love potion into a homemade dinner. An overworked husband and wife rediscover love through electric toy cars and miniature kickboxer games, while a younger couple recount their own courtship in voiceover and flashbacks. In the centerpiece of the film, an awkward first encounter between an older woman and three retired suitors turns joyous thanks to the power of mahjong.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Chinese Media Development Co, 1998', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AIQING MALA TANG (Spicy Love Soup)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '103"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with English Subtitles. All regions, PAL video' } , { label: 'CH 061', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Su, Wei & Mu, Ling', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'The first seven of the nine chapters in this textbook were recorded by Tong Chen, Chinese instructor. The materials for the book were selected from several famous modern Chinese writers. The chapters reflect Chinese modern history, contemporary history, and society. Can be found on course website.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Audio CD'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded by LLARC at MIT, Spring 2004', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CONTEMPORARY CHINESE TEXTS - FICTION', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 062', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Xiaogang, Feng', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'When big-shot Hollywood director Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland), remaking "The Last Emperor" in China, falls into a coma after a heart attack, it\'s left to his hired videographer to fulfill the filmmaker\'s last wish - to prepare a "comedy funeral" so Tyler can be properly reincarnated. That request soon gets out of hand, attracting all manner of advertisers and hangers-on hoping to profit from the event, while fearing that Tyler won\'t actually die.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film, 2001', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAN WAN (Big Shot\'s Funeral)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'In Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 063', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Hui On Wah, Ann', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Adapted from Hai Yan\'s novel. An Xin works as a narcotics police officer in Yunnan Province. Though she is engaged to be married, she falls in love with a drug dealer and has his child. She still marries her fiancee, but her life begins to unravel as her past relationship and current police work conflict, leading to tragedy.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Film Company, 2003', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'YU GUANYIN (Jade Goddess of Mercy)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '108"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 065', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhuangzhuang, Tian', c_copies_in_stock: '0', description: 'Told from the perspective of a young boy, this film traces the fate of a Beijing family and their neighbors during the political and social upheavals in the 1950\'s and 60\'s in China.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Chuo Eyetos & Co, China, 1993', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'Lan Fengzheng (The Blue Kite)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '138"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 066', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Yimou', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'In the 40\'s, in China, Fugui is a gambler. His wife Jiazhen can not stand it any longer and leaves. Fugui loses everything, and then creates puppet shows to survive. Jiazhen comes back... Historical chronicle of the China from the 1940\'s to the 80\'s, through the story of this family.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Era International, Hong Kong, 1994', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HUOZHE (To Live)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English, French or Spanish subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 067', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ye, Lou', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Along the banks ofthe Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, Marda falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Moudan. When he tries to kidnap her in order to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping into the river and disappearing forever. Marda serves a 3-year jail sentence for his attempted crime. Upon his release, he meets a woman that looks exactly like Moudan.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Dream Factory & Filmproduktion, China, 2000', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SUZHOU HE (Suzhou River)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '83"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 068', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Wang, Xiaoshuai', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Guei arrives from the country, and gets a job as a messenger. The company issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it endlessly. A student, Jian, has it. For him, it\'s his key to teen society - with his pals and with Xiao, his girlfriend. Guei finds the bike and stubbornly tries to reclaim it in the face of great odds. But for Jian to lose the bike would mean humiliation. The two young men - and the people around them - are swept up in the youths\' desperation.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Pyramide Productins, China, 2001', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHIQI SUI DE DAN CHE (Beijing Bicycle)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '113"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 069', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kar-wai, Wong', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Yaohui and Baorong arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong, and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiaohui starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Baorong reappears, Yaohui is empathetic, but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Baorong is not ready to settle down. Yaohui now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yaohui\'s life takes on a new spin, while Baorong\'s life shatters continually in contrast.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Block 2 Pictures, Hong Kong, 1997', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHEUN GWONG TSA SIT (Happy Together)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '97"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 070', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Text contains full users guide. A program designed to help the student easily learn the meaning and formation of thousands of Chinese characters. Includes a Chinese text editor, a user-modifiable Dictionary that includes pronunciation, definition and examples of calligraphy, etc; flashcards, handwriting recognition, and a search function.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Wenlin Institute, 1997-2002', submitted_by: 'Winnie Wong - grad student', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'WENLIN: Software for Learning Chinese', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 071', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Huo, Jianqi', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden his father has to bear as postman for the villagers, and the old postman is also deeply moved as his son relates his mother\'s anxiety as she waits for him to return home from every trip.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 1999', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NASHAN NAREN NAGOU (Postmen of the Mountains)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 002', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Fleming, Victor', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '1939 musical starring Judy Garland. Swept away by a tornado, Dorothy finds herself in the fantastic land of Oz with witches and wizards, and a trio of friends.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MGM/UA Home Video, 1966.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WIZARD OF OZ, THE', video_color: 'ColorB&W', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'English with closed captions.' } , { label: 'EN 005', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Grate, Harriette', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Practice in English pronunciation for adult students at all levels. Lessons emphasize pronunciation contrasts between similar sounding words. Drills provide practice in listening and speaking through repetition of words and sentences. Book includes a diagnostic test which may be used with the aid of a teacher to determine specific problems.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Regents, NY, 1974.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION EXERCISES FOR JAPANESE STUDENTS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 008', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Davenport, Tom', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Created by Davenport Films in 1986, this film portrays the role of black gospel music as a binding force in an African-American family and community life. For the Landis family of Creedmoor, NC, gospel music is the "singing stream". A family reunion brings home far flung family members to eat, reminisce, and most importantly to sing.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Shanachie Enter. Corp, Newton, NJ, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SINGING STREAM, A : A BLACK FAMILY CHRONICLE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 012', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Burns, Ric', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This series chronicles the history of the West from the time of the Gold Rush until after the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee, and it interrelates the major enterprises that went into the expansion - gold and silver mining, homesteading, railroad building, cattle ranching, and more. It also explores the spiritual dimensions of the struggle for the American West. By 1893, the West was conquered, but many Native Americans saw little future as their way of life had vanished. Tape 1: Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way 1845-1864. Tape 2: The Approach of Civilization 1865-1869. Tape 3: The War for the Black Hills 1870-1876. Tape 4: Ghost Dance 1877-1893.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Shanachie Entertainment Corp., NJ, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WAY WEST, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Four 90" tapes', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 015', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Dauer, Rebecca', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Text and answer key available. Materials are designed to help students diagnosis and correct their pronunciation problems. General areas include the phonetic alphabet, stress & rhythm, consonants, and intonation.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'ACCURATE ENGLISH: A COMPLETE COURSE IN PRONUNCIATION', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 023', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Fluency & Grammar', 'Vocabulary & Idioms'], author_or_director: 'Tiersky, Ethel', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Articles from the Herald Tribune. Exercises are designed to help strengthen reading skills; understand the articles\' main points and their vocabulary and idioms; learn what kinds of information you can expect to find in the newspaper; and apply these reading approaches to independent reading.', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'National Textbook Co., Lincolnwood, IL, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Christie', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'IN THE NEWS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 029', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Roy Rosenzeig, Steve Brier, & Josh Brown', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Based on a definitive two-volume history of the United States, this CD-ROM offers a new way to encounter history. Users can access thousands of original source documents - audio, video, and text. Includes pictures, photographs, letters, archival audio, films, 70 graphs and charts, games, quizzes, and the world\'s first crossword puzzle. Provides search, index, and notebook tools.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'The Voyager Company, New York, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WHO BUILT AMERICA?', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 030', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Leshinsky, Jayne Gaunt', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Listening and writing exercises intended to help students understand conversation, with a particular emphasis on the differences between spoken and written English.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Prentice Hall Regents, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'AUTHENTIC LISTENING AND DISCUSSION FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 031', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Esarey, Gary', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Material is designed for those who have mastered the basic sound system of English and are comfortable with everyday use of the language, yet still have difficulty with certain sounds and stress and intonation patterns.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'PRONUNCIATION EXERCISES FOR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, 2nd ed.', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 032', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Henly, Elizabeth', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '2 texts and an instructor\'s manual are available. This video is actual footage from ABC News programs (1987-1992) that look at four aspects of the lifestyle in the United States: family, work, education, and trends. Through careful viewing and discussion of the news reports, students will increase their understanding of the culture and cultural diversity found in the U.S. Segments range in length from 5"-20".', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Regents/Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'FOCUS ON AMERICAN CULTURE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 034', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Duffy, Patricia', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'Workbook and instructor\'s manual with answer key and transcripts are available. Can be used independently. Video contains 12 news reports (with captions encoded) from ABC News programs on Nightline, 20/20, Prime Time Live, and World News Tonight. Segments date from 1980-1991 and range from 4-15 minutes in length. The goal of the text is to aid comprehension, encourage critical thinking, an stimulate the use of the language presented on the video.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'ABC Distribution Co. and Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Christie', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'FOCUS ON INNOVATORS AND INNOVATIONS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120”', video_subtitles: 'English with closed captions.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Mejia, Elizabeth', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'An advanced level, content-based, cultural reader. Exercises in the text are based upon viewing seven films on videotape. These are: Tape 1 - "Witness" Tape 2 - "Childern of a Lesser God" Tape 3 - "The Milagro Beanfield War" Tape 4 - "Stand and Deliver" Tape 5 - "Dim Sum" Tape 6 - "Kramer vs. Kramer" Tape 7 - "Coal Miner\'s Daughter"', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Prentice Hall Regents, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Redford, Robert', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text for American Picture Show, EN 035. When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small bean field by "borrowing" some water from a large and potentially destructive development site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash. The developers then try to stamp out the modest plantings, forcing the handyman\'s friends to team up with the spirited "rebel" to protect and preserve their way of life.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'MCA Home Video, 1988.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, THE (Tape 3 in AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW series)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '1\' 58"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Apted, Michael', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text American Picture Show, EN 035. Film based on the autobiography of Loretta Lynn. With four children at the age of 18, Loretta\'s husband encourages her to make a record and go to Nashville where she gets a chance to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which launches her career.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Universal City Studios, 1980.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'COAL MINER\'S DAUGHTER (Tape 7 in AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW series)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\'04"', video_subtitles: 'English, no subtitles, close captioned.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Menendez, Ramon', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text American Picture Show, EN 035. A math teacher at an east Los Angeles high school refuses to write off his inner-city students as learners. He uses many tactics to teach these 18 students math, and overcomes the suspicions of a representative of the Educational Testing Service.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Warner Brothers, 1988.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'STAND AND DELIVER (Tape 4 in AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW series)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '103"', video_subtitles: 'English, no subtitles, close captioned in English.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Weir, Peter', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text American Picture Show, EN 035. A young Amish boy witnesses the murder of an undercover narcotics agent. A hardened Philadelphia detective must take refuge with this non-violent Amish family after he is injured trying to protect the boy and his mother.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Paramount Pictures, 1985.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'WITNESS (Tape 1 in AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW series)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '112"', video_subtitles: 'English, no subtitles, close captioned in English.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Haines, Randa', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text American Picture Show, EN 035. A special education teacher first sees his headstrong deaf student as a teaching challenge, but soon their teacher/student relationship blossoms into love.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Paramount Pictures, 1986.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (Tape 2 in AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW series)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '119"', video_subtitles: 'English, no subtitles, close captioned in English.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Benton, Robert', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text American Picture Show, EN 035. Mother leaves the father to find herself. Father is left to care for their six-year-old son; doing the cooking, taking him to the park, understanding his needs. Then the mother returns and wants their son back.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1979.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'KRAMER VS. KRAMER (Tape 6 in AMERICAN PICTURE SHOW series)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '105"', video_subtitles: 'English, no subtitles, close captioned in English.' } , { label: 'EN 035', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Wang, Wayne', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'For study purposes, see text American Picture Show, EN 035. A Chinese-American family in contemporary San Francisco tries to maintain a link to their cultural heritage while confronted with the changing world around them.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Project A Partnership, an independent film, 1985', submitted_by: 'Trometer', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'DIM SUM - A Little Bit of Heart Tape 5', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '88"', video_subtitles: 'In English and Cantonese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 045', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Novey, Donald', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Program designed to improve pronunciation. The video demonstrates a sound, uses an animation of mouth and tounge movements to show how a sound is produced, has closeups of mouth to show proper lip and tounge motion, and provides practice sessions using the sound in both words and sentences. All exercises are captioned so viewer can read as they practice.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Skills International, Northbrook, IL, 1991.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HOW TO PRONOUNCE CONSONANTS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'English with English captions.' } , { label: 'EN 046', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Novey, Donald', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Program designed to improve pronunciation. The video demonstrates a sound, uses an animation of mouth and tounge movements to show how a sound is produced, has closeups of mouth to show proper lip and tounge motion, and provides practice sessions using the sound in both words and sentences. All exercises are captioned so viewer can read as they practice.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Skills International, Northbrook, IL, 1991.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HOW TO PRONOUNCE VOWELS, DIPTHONGS AND WORD ENDINGS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '56"', video_subtitles: 'English with English captions.' } , { label: 'EN 064', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Grant, Linda', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Text and Answer Key available. Designed to improve the speech intelligibility of learners of American English. Should be especially useful for learners who wish to communicate more clearly in academic, business, scientific and professional settings. Addresses pronunciation needs of students from a variety of language backgrounds.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Heinle and Heinle, Boston, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'WELL SAID, 2nd ed.', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 065', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Vocabulary & Idioms'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Script contains complete transcript of the video. A basic introduction to the clues in body language. Viewers learn how gestures mirror inner feelings and how posture sends messages. Stressing that much of communication is nonverbal, this video examines the unwritten rules of eye contact and the concepts of personal and public space. It also considers how these concepts differ across cultures.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Learning Seed, Lake Zurich, IL, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'BODY LANGUAGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '25"', video_subtitles: 'English with close captions only.' } , { label: 'EN 072', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Pronunciation, Stress, Intonation'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Poem to practice pronunciation problems. Read by J. Dunphy.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT Language Lab, 1982.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'TELLING HEARTH FROM EARTH IS TOUGH STUFF SUZY', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 076', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Gilbert, Judy', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Text and answer key available. Suitable for independent study. Material concentrates on rhythm, stress, and intonation to improve pronunciation and comprehension. Good for TOEFL practice.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cambridge University Press, New York, l993.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CLEAR SPEECH, 2nd ed.', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 090', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Fluency & Grammar'], author_or_director: 'Molinsky, Steven and Bliss, Bill', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Audio tapes to accompany Books 1-4. English is presented through guided conversations, so students will use the language gramatically through practice with meaningful conversations.', level: 'Beginning to intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1983.', submitted_by: 'MIT Women\'s League', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'SIDE BY SIDE, 2nd ed.', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 095', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Pollack, Sydney', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Film stars Dustin Hoffman as an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with Julie (Jessica Lang) and Julie\'s father, Less (Charles Durning), falls for "Dorothy".', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'RCA/Columbia Pictures, 1982.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TOOTSIE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '116"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 096', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yates, Peter', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A comedy about the relationship between four working class high school graduates in Indiana and their visions of life and the future. The main protagonist, Dave is an avid bicyclist. Through the story of his victory in a bike race and his entry into the university, this movie deals with the American Dream.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CBS/Fox, 1983.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BREAKING AWAY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN 104', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Numrich, Carol', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'Twelve authentic radio interviews from "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio. Developes listening comprehension and critical thinking skills. Each unit presents an issue of international appeal to form an understanding of American values and culture.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Audio CD'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Pearson Longman, 2004', submitted_by: 'Brenneke', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CONSIDER THE ISSUES, 3rd ed.', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 114', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Jones, Leo and Baeyer, C. Von', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Students learn: how to persuade a friend to do something; to ask a stranger for information; apologize, etc.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cambridge University Press, New York,1983.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'FUNCTIONS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 115', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Numrich, Carol', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Consists of 12 authentic radio interviews and reports from the National Public Radio program, All Things Considered. Used with the text, the student develops listening comprehension and critical thinking skills.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Longman Inc., White Plains, NY, 1990.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'FACE THE ISSUES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 127', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: 'Jones, Leo and Kimbrough, Victoria', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Text contains exercises, script is a complete transcript of the tapes. Teacher\'s Manual/Answer Key is also available. Short listening exercises; native speakers; conversations; interviews and phone messages.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cambridge University Press, NY, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Dunphy', text_or_script: 'Text available. Script available.', title: 'GREAT IDEAS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 128', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Fluency & Grammar', 'Vocabulary & Idioms'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Focuses on Section 3 of the TOEFL test. The questions in the Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension section measure the ability to understand various kinds of reading materials as well as the meanings and uses of words. Reading for TOEFL contains 120 reading passage questions, 120 vocabulary questions and two full-length TOEFL tests.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, 1989.', submitted_by: 'M. Sokolik', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'TOEFL: READING FOR TOEFL', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 129', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking', 'Fluency & Grammar', 'Vocabulary & Idioms'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Familiarizes test takers with the multiple-choice formats used in all three sections of the TOEFL test and helps them understand the specific linguistic skills the test measures. It contains 110 minutes of test material from an actual TOEFL exam with explanations of why the four answer choices for each of the 150 questions are either correct or incorrect.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, 1989.', submitted_by: 'M. Sokolik', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'TOEFL: UNDERSTANDING TOEFL', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 131', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ 'Listening Comprehension & Notetaking'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Focuses on Section 1, Listening Comprehension, of the TOEFL test. It contains 173 minutes of recorded test material with the same North American speakers used in the actual examination. Two full length TOEFL tests are included.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, 1989.', submitted_by: 'M. Sokolik', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'TOEFL: LISTENING TO TOEFL', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 132', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'David Stern', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of tapes focusing on accent reduction for students whose English is already fairly proficient. Deals with intonation, pronunciation of different sounds, sound formation (physiological), and stress.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Dialect Accent Specialists, VT, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Sokolik', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'SOUND AND STYLE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH, 2nd ed', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'EN 137', type: 'Item', language: 'ESL', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: 'Chan, Marsha', c_copies_in_stock: '',