2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com

Rhetoric Kathleen Jameson, and political
media consultant Tony Schwartz analyze
the persuasive powers of political
speeches, including those of Winston
Churchill, John F. Kennedy, and Martin
Luther King, and comment on the impact
of recent social factors such as Vietnam,
Watergate, and televised political
commercials.
Item no. : WB07860158
Format : DVD
Duration : 29 minutes
Price : USD 235.00
EXPLORING EXPLORING EXPLORING LANGUAGE:
LANGUAGE:
THINKING, THINKING, THINKING, WRITING,
WRITING,
COMMUNICATING COMMUNICATING - THE
THE
SHAPE SHAPE OF OF LLANGUAGE
L ANGUAGE
This look at efforts to communicate with
other beings in our universe leads to the
question of what language is, a question
answered by author Edwin Newman,
anthropologist Sidney Minta, psychologist
Nancy Henley, and sociolinguist Walt
Wolfram.
Item no. : MC07860159
Format : DVD
Duration : 29 minutes
Price : USD 235.00
EXPLORING EXPLORING EXPLORING LANGUAGE:
LANGUAGE:
THINKING, THINKING, WRITING,
WRITING,
COMMUNICATING COMMUNICATING - THE
THE
STATE STATE OF OF ENGLISH
ENGLISH
The argument among authorities such as
Edwin Newman and linguist Wayne O'Neill
over the health of our language leads to
an historical appraisal of the English
language.
Item no. : LU07860160
Format : DVD
Duration : 29 minutes
Price : USD 235.00
EXPLORING EXPLORING EXPLORING LANGUAGE:
LANGUAGE:
THINKING, THINKING, WRITING,
WRITING,
COMMUNICATING COMMUNICATING - THE
THE
WRITTEN WRITTEN WORD
WORD
Atlantic essayist Benjamin DeMott, Yale
President A. Bartlett Giamatti, and
Professor of English Richard Mitchell
comment on the link between writing and
thinking. Author Edwin Newman and
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen
Goodman explain their own process of
writing.
Item no. : PH07860161
Format : DVD
Duration : 29 minutes
Price : USD 235.00
LATIN AMERICAN
STUDIES
10TH 10TH PARALLEL
PARALLEL
PARALLEL
By Silvio Da-Rin
10th PARALLEL takes us on a 300-mile
journey up Brazil's Envira river into the
heart of the Amazon Rainforest, to the
frontier of a territory populated by the
country's uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Our guide is Jose Carlos Meirelles, a
sertanista - one of the Amazon
frontiersman employed by FUNAI, the
National Indian Foundation of Brazil. With
anthropologist Txai Terri de Aquino, he
leads us to the Ethno-Environmental
Protection Front of the Envira River, a
FUNAI outpost he founded at the foot of
the 10th Parallel South, the latitude that
marks Brazil's border with Peru, cheek by
jowl with the largest population of isolated
indigenous people in the world.
Until 1987, FUNAI attempted to make
contact with previously isolated tribes and
integrate them within the Brazilian state.
The policy had disastrous results: the
death of hundreds of thousands of
indigenous people, and, in some cases,
the virtual enslavement of others on behalf
of government or industry.
Since then, FUNAI has sought to maintain
these tribes' isolation. Sertanistas like
Meirelles, the very people who used to
make first contact with the tribes on behalf
of the government, are now charged with
ensuring the new policy is observed.
10th PARALLEL documents 21 days of
this frequently dangerous, always delicate
labor. With few resources beyond decades
of experience in the indigenous cause, the
specialists negotiate with the established
riverside indigenous communities, and
face traffickers and squatters who try to
invade the area. Meirelles describes
sometimes harrowing encounters with
members of the uncontacted tribes,
including an ambush during which he was
pierced through the face and neck with
arrows.
Even more than his bravery, we see
Meirelles' dedication. In his meetings with
the previously contacted and settled
riverside tribes who live closest to the
isolated communities, we see some of the
thorny practicalities entailed by FUNAI's
approach. After a number of conflicts and
thefts involving the "wild" Indians, with
casualties on both sides, Meirelles must
propose possible solutions for peaceful
coexistence, offering concessions on
behalf of the government to the contacted
indigenous communities that have
suffered the greatest losses.
10th PARALLEL brings us deep into the
Amazon and into close proximity with the
rainforest's uncontacted populations to
reveal the fascinating and complex issues
at stake in FUNAI's policy on isolated
tribes - a policy that has become a
reference worldwide. We see that
non-contact is not a policy of passivity or
neglect, but rather entails all the subtle
questions and balancing of constituencies
as any other government program.
Item no. : KA03100830
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 87 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 398.00
SILVESTRE SILVESTRE SILVESTRE PANTALEON
PANTALEON
By Roberto Olivares Ruiz and Jonathan
Amith
SILVESTRE PANTALEON is the story of
an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking
village of San Agustin Oapan, Mexico. It
begins as a local curandero reads the
protagonist's fortune in the cards and
diagnoses the costly remedy to his ills: a
complex series of offerings to the hearth,
the ants, the river, and the deceased.
Silvestre Pantaleon then struggles to pull
together the money needed to pay for the
curing ceremony and provide for his family,
dedicating himself to the only
remunerative activities he knows:
handcrafting rope (made from the maguey
plant) for religious ceremonies, and
making seldom-used household objects
that he alone still has the skills to produce.
SILVESTRE PANTALEON -the result of a
collaboration between an anthropologist
who lives Oapan and a filmmaker
dedicated to working in indigenous
communities-unfolds with no interviews or
narration. Rather, scenes from daily life
are woven together in rich ethnographic
detail and lingering imagery that explore a
rural community situated in the shadow of
a highway bridge to the international resort
of Acapulco. Over this bridge pass
thousands of tourists, oblivious to the
village life just below yet worlds apart.
Awards
� Best Feature-Length Documentary,
2011 Morelia Film Festival
� Principal Prize, 2011 International
Documentary Film Festival of Mexico
City
� Best Film (All Categories), 2011
Montreal First Peoples' Festival
Item no. : RW03100842
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 65 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 390.00
TINIEST TINIEST TINIEST PLACE, PLACE, THE
THE
By Tatiana Huezo
On the surface THE TINIEST PLACE is
the story of Cinquera, a village literally
wiped off the official map during El
Salvador's 12-year civil war. But on a
deeper level it is a story about the ability to
rise, to rebuild and reinvent oneself after a
tragedy.
Holding the past and present in focus
together, the film takes us to the tiny
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