Aida
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the Emmy Award-winning 1989 Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera starring Aprile Millo as Aida, Plácido Domingo as Radamès, Sherrill Milnes as Amonasro, and Dolora Zajick as Amneris; James Levine, conductor; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 38 minutes. [Close Window]

Attualità Video
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 11 episodes present various facets of Italian life and culture: gli sport, gli svaghi, la vita universitaria, il giorni di festa, la tavola, la televisione, l'abbligliamento, l'economia, la donna contemporanea, il servizio di leva, il turismo; accompanying Viewer's Manual provides vocabulary, pre-viewing and post-viewing activities, map of Italy, puzzles, answer key to puzzles; 2 copies available; approximately 60 minutes. [Close Window]

Il Barbiere di Siviglia
1/2" VHS black and white videocassette of 1947 Mario Costa production of Rossini's opera starring Tito Gobbi as Figaro, Ferrucio Tagliavini as Count Almaviva and Nelly Corradi as Rosina; in Italian; no subtitles; 90 minutes. [Close Window]

Il Barbiere di Siviglia
1/2" VHS color videocassette; a Jean-Pierre Ponnelle film of Rossini's two-act opera; Claudio Abbado, conductor; cast includes: Luigi Alva, Enzo Dara, Teresa Berganza, Hermann Prey, Paolo Montarsolo, chorus and orchestra of Teatro alla Scala; in Italian with English subtitles; synopsis available; 2 hours 22 minutes. [Close Window]

Basic Italian by Video
this 90-minute 1/2" VHS color videocassette provides a 1,000 word/phrase working vocabulary for those interested in learning Italian for travel, business, school and/or pleasure; each of the forty-three "most often encountered life situations" is enacted with subtitles in Italian and in English on the screen; for beginning students. [Close Window]

La battaglia del San Martino
1/2" VHS color videocassette; a 2002 documentary directed by Fabio Corradi and Rodolfo Ossuzio and subtitled "1943 Una prima azione di resistenza in Italia"; this film reconstructs the WWII story of the battle of San Martino which Colonel Carlo Croce and his men survived and which united the Comunità Montana della Valcuvia; features interviews, historical documents and individual accounts; in Italian, no subtitles; 43 minutes. [Close Window]

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1/2" VHS color videocassette; overview of Italian film production from the 1940s to the late 1980s; includes clips from famous films such as Open City, Divorce Italian Style, The Bicycle Thief, etc. and features virtually every great personality in Italian filmmaking; in Italian with English subtitles; some sections with English narration; 1 hour 50 minutes. [Close Window]

La Bohème
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the Genoa Opera Company's production of Giacomo Puccini's 4-act opera filmed live at the Tianquiao Theatre in Beijing, People's Republic of China, in 1986; conducted by Leone Magiera; directed by Giancarlo Menotti; starring Luciano Pavarotti in the role of the poet Rodolfo and Fiamma Izzo D'Amico as Mimi; also featuring Madelyn Renee as Musetta and Roberto Servile as Marcello; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours. [Close Window]

Buongiorno Italia
ten 1/2" VHS color videocassettes; twenty beginner-level programs which include conversations and interviews with Italians going about their daily lives and which show different aspects of Italian culture; aim of program is to get student to understand and to use simple colloquial Italian; filmed in Stresa in Northern Italy and in Orvieto in Central Italy; for more information see "Supplementary Language Study Tapes Listing" (section II); each program = 25 minutes; approximately 8 hours 20 minutes (total time). [Close Window]

Caravaggio
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1991 European Video Library documentary film about the Italian painter Caravaggio's short life (1571-1610) and career; includes study of the self-portraits of Caravaggio's early years, as well as of the large-scale paintings created for Rome's churches; also addresses the artist's escape from Rome following a murder, and a look at works produced at the end of his life; in English; 28 minutes. [Close Window]

The Caravaggio Conspiracy
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1984 BBC Television/RM Arts-produced program that provides an inside look at the realities of the world of art dealing, including checking a work for authenticity, artificial auction bids, resurfacing of stolen art; follows the 1979-1982 adventure of London Times journalist Peter Watson disguised as a wealthy art dealer as he tries to recover stolen masterpieces, including a Caravaggio; in English; 1 hour. [Close Window]

Cavalleria Rusticana
1/2" VHS color videocassette; Franco Zeffirelli's film of Mascagni's one-act opera; filmed on location in Vizzini, Sicily; cast includes: Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, Fedora Barbieri, Renato Bruson and Axelle Gall; conducted by Georges Prêtre; in Italian with English subtitles; synopsis available; 70 minutes. [Close Window]

Cento giorni a Palermo
1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassette of 1984 Giuseppe Ferrara film starring Lino Ventura and Giuliana de Sio; story of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa's 100 days as Prefect of Palermo and his struggles to take on the Mafia; in Italian, no subtitles; 1 h our 50 minutes.[Close Window]

Ciao, professore!
1/2" VHS color videocassette; a Lina Wertmuller film about a stiff, conservative, upper-class teacher from Northern Italy who by mistake ends up teaching a rowdy group of children in Southern Italy. Although at first terrified of his situation, the professor soon adapts to his little charges and finds himself delightfully surprised, as these youngsters have some lessons of their own to teach the professor; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 31 minutes. [Close Window]

Cinema Paradiso
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1989 Giuseppe Tornatore film starring Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, and Salvatore Cascio; story of a young boy named Salvatore and of his friendship with Alfredo, the projectionist at the Cinema Paradiso, a movie theatre in a small Italian village; from Alfredo and from the movies, Salvatore learns about love and about pursuing his dream of making movies of his own; 30 years after leaving the village to pursue his dream, Salvatore returns home to find a secret, beautiful discovery awaiting him there; in Italian with yellow English subtitles; 2 hours. [Close Window]

A Class Act
1/2" VHS color videocassette (©1987) about teachers and foreign language teaching as a career; professionally filmed with practicing teachers and former teachers in the workplace; aimed at recruiting foreign language teachers for the future; in English; 15 minutes. [Close Window]

Collaborations: Meeting New Goals, Realities
1/2" VHS color videocassette produced in 1997 by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in conjunction with the 1997 Northeast Conference Reports volume; presents examples of classroom scenarios that each focus on one of the five goal areas (listed below) of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning; series of accompanying discussion questions available; 54 minutes.

Goals

1. Communication Goal: Meaning Making through a Whole Language Approach
2. Cultures Goal: Using Video to Explore Perspectives, Practices, and Products of Guatemalan Culture
3. Connections Goal: Making New Connections through Interdisciplinary Lessons
4. Comparisons Goal: Using Linguistic and Cultural Comparisons to Help Students Succeed in Learning
5. Communities Goal: Using a Foreign Language to Connect with the Community

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Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (Confessions of a Police Captain)
1/2" VHS color videocassette of 1971 film directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Martin Balsam as a "bad cop" and Franco Nero as district attorney; a Mafia drama about corruption, murder, and deceit; in English (with possible dubbing in some scenes); 1 hour 42 minutes. [Close Window]

Cultural Literacy and Interactive Language Instruction
1/2" VHS color videocassette (1988) narrated by Marlies Mueller of the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; illustrates a variety of activities designed to teach language through literature: (1) discussion of ideas via simulated news broadcasts and interviews with famous people, (2) vocabulary study, (3) grammar activities, (4) student dramatizations, (5) oral testing; begins by illustrating negative classroom techniques; ends with student discussion (in English) of the "language-through-literature" classes; all illustrations are from elementary and advanced French classes; narration in English; 55 minutes. [Close Window]

Don Giovanni
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1954 film of Mozart's opera starring Cesare Siepi as Don Giovanni; other artists performing are: Otto Edelmann (Leporello), Elisabeth Grümmer (Donna Anna), Lisa Della Casa (Donna Elvira), Erna Berger (Zerlina), Anton Dermota (Don Ottavio), Walter Berry (Masetto), Deszö Ernster (Commendatore); Furtwängler, conductor; a Salzburg Festival performance; in Italian with Japanese subtitles; 2 hours 50 minutes.

Don Giovanni
two 1/2" VHS color videocassettes; 1989 La Scala performance of Mozart's opera starring Thomas Allen as Don Giovanni, Edita Gruberova as Donna Anna, Ann Murray as Donna Elvira, Francisco Araiza as Don Ottavio; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Giorgio Strehler, stage director; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 57 minutes. [Close Window]

Ecco l'Italia
five 1/2" VHS color videocassettes featuring news and cultural programming aired on the RAI television network between December, 1989 and April, 1990; for use by intermediate to advanced students; among the features included are: news of the day, interviews with famous Italians (ex. Fellini, Zeffirelli), Leopardi, fashion, FIAT, music (San Remo '89 Festival), sports, regions of Italy; accompanying 249-page binder of "Interactive Video Materials," produced by the Dept. of Italian Studies at Brown University, includes scripts, pre-viewing, follow-up, vocabulary, true-false, fill-in, questionnaire-type, matching, and other exercises for selected video segments; no subtitles; each videocassette = 60 minutes. [Close Window]

Ernani
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1982 La Scala production of Verdi's opera starring Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Renato Bruson and Nicolai Ghiaurov; Riccardo Muti, conductor; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 15 minutes. [Close Window]

Falstaff
1/2" VHS color videocassette; July 16, 1982, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden production of Verdi's opera starring Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci and Barbara Hendricks; conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 21 minutes. [Close Window]

La Forza del Destino
two 1/2" VHS color videocassettes; March 24,1984 Metropolitan Opera Co. production of Verdi's opera starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini and Leo Nucci; in Italian with English subtitles; 3 hours. [Close Window]

Francesca da Rimini
1/2" VHS color videocassette; Riccardo Zandonai's opera starring Renata Scotto as Francesca and Plácido Domingo as Paolo Malatesta; story based on the fifth canto of Dante's Inferno; April 4 and 7, 1984 Metropolitan Opera production; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 28 minutes. [Close Window]

Il giorno della civetta
1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassette; a Damiano Damiani film starring Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero and Lee J. Cobb based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia; "In a Sicilian town a building contractor is killed. The arrest of a suspect causes a bustle among the maggiorenti of the mafia who want to let the murder pass as a crime of honor. There is no trace of the presumed culprit, but a piece of information leads the captain of police to believe that the supposed culprit must have been killed and buried under a blanket of tar. Further investigation yields nothing."; in Italian, no subtitles; 1 hour 44 minutes. [Close Window]

Giovanni Falcone
1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassette of 1993 Giuseppe Ferrara film starring Michele Placido and Giancarlo Giannini; story of the 10 years of investigation and war waged against the Mafia beginning in the 1980s by Giovanni Falcone and a Palermo-based "anti-Mafia judges pool"(Rocco Chinnici, Paolo Borsellino, et al.); in Italian, no subtitles; 2 hours 5 minutes.[Close Window]

Gioviano: Un paese di collina
1/2" VHS color videocassette; an overview of everyday life in a hilltown in a remote part of Italy (the Garfagnana); shows how people there strive to maintain their traditions while living in the modern world; sheet of fifteen study questions and answers available; 30 minutes. [Close Window]

Going International
four 1/2" VHS color videocassettes designed to help the traveler develop cross-cultural skills required for a successful international experience; in English

• Bridging the Culture Gap — contrasts one's own unconscious cultural values/habits with those of the diverse cultures of the world; explains cultural taboos and accepted standards of behavior; 30 minutes.
• Managing the Overseas Assignment — shows how cultural misunderstandings can affect the traveler's ability to accomplish goals in such diverse countries as Japan, Saudi Arabia, England, India, and Mexico; includes explanation of what went wrong in each situation and proposes ways for improving results; 30 minutes.
• Beyond Culture Shock — for the family or the individual moving abroad; explains the psychological phases of the adjustment process; provides practical suggestions for making life abroad a positive experience; 30 minutes.
• Welcome Home, Stranger — focuses on the unexpected problems of returning home and how to overcome the difficulties of "re-entry" into the workplace, community, and school environment; 15 minutes.

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Hand-Held Delight
1/2" VHS color videocassette produced in Summer 2000 by the Boston College Audiovisual Department in association with the Boston College Lambda Psi chapter of Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society); this video, produced in conjunction with the Lambda Psi chapter's exhibit of the same name at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College (6/14-9/24/00), highlights several of the 18th- and 19th-century European fans from the permanent Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Hicks Collection at Boston College; also includes a study of 18th-century fan construction as illustrated by the Eventailliste (Fan-Maker) plates from the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot; English-language captions and period music; approximately 27 minutes. [Close Window]

Heinle & Heinle Satellite Videoconference #2: On Mentoring Foreign Language TAs, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the 10/25/00 second annual national videoconference on issues in language program direction sponsored by Heinle & Heinle Publishers and broadcast from the Georgia Center for Continuing Education; based on the AAUSC (American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Foreign Language Programs) volume Mentoring Foreign Language TAs, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty edited by Benjamin Rifkin; videoconference moderated by Robert Terry (University of Richmond) with featured speakers: Elizabeth Bernhardt (Stanford University), Tom Blair (City College of San Francisco), Lara Lomicka (Penn State University), Susan Navey-Davis (North Carolina State University), Rebecca Oxford (University of Maryland); in addition to delivering formal presentations and participating in discussions on the topic of mentoring, speakers respond to viewers' questions; 2 hours. [Close Window]

Heinle & Heinle Satellite Videoconference #3: Teaching in Today's Multilevel Classroom
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the 2/6/02 third annual national videoconference on issues in language program direction sponsored by Heinle & Heinle Publishers and broadcast from the Georgia Center for Continuing Education; videoconference moderated by Robert Terry (University of Richmond) with featured speakers: Kerry S.G. Driscoll (University of Iowa and Coe College), Jean-Louis Hippolyte (Kansas State University), Patti J. Marinelli (University of South Carolina), and Kimberley A. Sallee (University of Missouri-Columbia); in addition to delivering formal presentations and participating in discussions on the topic of placement in the multilevel classroom where students of varying abilities/backgrounds in the target language come together, speakers respond to viewers' questions; 2 hours. [Close Window]

In italiano
two 1/2" VHS color videocassettes; "home study enrichment version" of 26-lesson multi-media course in Italian language and civilization developed by the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy and adapted for use in North America by Coast Community College (Fountain Valley, CA); designed for use by beginning through advanced-level students either within a traditional classroom situation or in a self-instructional program; uses a communicative-situational approach, introduced by an on-camera instructor, to provide practice in listening comprehension, speaking and use of grammatical structures; each unit includes elementi di civiltà (words and images related to Italian civilization/culture); accompanying texts include: (1) A Preview for the Telecourse In Italiano - 45-page text outlining the method of the program, lesson objectives and summaries; (2) In Italiano: Telecourse Study Guide - 294-page text containing tips for viewing the video, grammar explanations, cultural notes, vocabulary lists, directions for the use of the corresponding Grammar/Textbook, answer keys for the exercises in the Grammar/Textbook; (3) In Italiano: Grammatica Italiana per Stranieri - 618-page grammar text written completely in Italian; (4) In Italiano: A Handbook for Comparison and Contrast for English-Speaking Students - 251-page text intended to address the principal difficulties native speakers of English encounter in the study of Italian; each video lesson = 30 minutes; 13 hours (total time). [Close Window]

In nomme della legge
1/2" VHS (PAL) black and white videocassette of Pietro Germi's 1949 film featuring Massimo Girotti, Jone Salinas, Peppino Spadaro and Charles Vanel; at once a romantic vision of the Mafia in Sicily and a description of the face of the Mafia with its historical and social implications; Synopis = A young police magistrate in Sicily struggles against the law of the country, the Mafia and the loftiness of the place. When the local Baron learns that the magistrate is intending to get to the bottom of things, he first tries to corrupt him and then tries to have him killed by the Mafia. Despite injuries suffered during this attempt on his life, the magistrate does not go along with a proposed transfer of work assignment, but decides to stay and continue to fight the Mafia; in Italian, no subtitles; 1 hour 38 minutes. [Close Window]

Interact '89
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the satellite teleconference, "Using Technology in the Modern Language Classroom", from California State University at Chico (May 10, 1989). Participants include: Frank Otto of Brigham Young University, Rick Altman and James Pusack of PICS, Lee Ann Stone of UC at Irvine; their discussion includes task-based activities for the language lab, use of video and authentic foreign television programming and the availability of videodisc; in English; 90 minutes. [Close Window]

Italia contemporanea
1/2" VHS color "demonstration" videocassette; subtitled "Conversations with Native Speakers", this demo video features brief excerpts (ranging in duration from seconds to 2+ minutes) from the full-length video (© 2000 Yale University Press) intended for use by elementary to intermediate level language learners; promotional booklet containing table of contents, sample lesson plan, selected transcripts and notes on the use of the program is available; 7 minutes 10 seconds. [Close Window]

Italianissimo 1 (IT 1.030) - four 1/2" VHS color video cassettes produced in 1992 by the BBC, each containing two or three programs focusing on the daily life of Italians and coordinated with the unit chapters of the beginning-level text and activity book Italianissimo 1 by Denise De Rôme, Rossella Peressini and Loredana Polezzi; each unit divided into two main parts (introduction to aspects of contemporary Italian society and the culture underlying the language) and two parts for reference (vocabulary and troubleshooting notes); multimedia program features a "twin-track approach" to the study of grammar via the "core" or basic communicative needs course of study (track 1) and more complete, in-depth explanations (track 2); accompanying text and activity book, as well as audio program available; each video unit = 13-14 minutes; 2 hours 30 minutes (total time). [Close Window]

Johnny Stecchino
1/2" VHS color videocassette of 1992 film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni; in this hysterical tale of mistaken identity described as "the Marx Brothers meet the Godfather", Benigni plays the role of Dante, a bus driver who's a dead ringer for Johnny Toothpick, a notorious mafioso; in Italian with English subtitles, 1 hour 40 minutes. [Close Window]

Languages at Work
1/2" VHS color videocassette (1989) narrated by Marlies Mueller of the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; illustrates a variety of activities for the language classroom: warm-up, grammar-related, role-playing, group work, warm-down activities; illustrations are given in French, Italian and Spanish by Harvard faculty members in elementary-level language classes; narration in English; 35 minutes. [Close Window]

Lamerica - 1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1994 award-winning ("Best Director" at Venice Film Festival, Felix Award for "Best European Film") film directed by Gianni Amelio starring Enrico Lo Verso; the story of two Italian businessmen, Gino and Fiore, who attempt to set up a business scam in poverty-stricken Albania just after its emanicipation from Communism; the two first engage an Albanian (Spiro), a long-time prisoner of war, as "chairman" of their company, but upon his disappearance, the business deal goes sour; Gino is then forced to live as an Albanian, and thereby comes to understand what it means to be a poor and powerless refugee; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 56 minutes. [Close Window]

Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1998 Academy Award-winning ("Best Foreign Language Film") film starring "Best Actor" Roberto Benigni; Benigni plays an imaginative, funny waiter named Guido who falls in love and marries a school teacher named Dora (Nicoletta Braschi); during the last months of World War II, Guido, an Italian Jew, Dora and their son Giosué are taken to a Nazi concentration camp where Guido uses his ingenuity and inner strength to continue to communicate with his wife (in another camp) and to protect his son from the horrors of his surroundings by turning the situation into a game; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 56 minutes. [Close Window]

Macbeth
1/2" VHS color videocassette: Deutsche Oper Berlin production of Verdi's opera starring Mara Zampieri; Renato Bruson, David Griffith, James Morris and Dennis O'Neill; conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 30 minutes. [Close Window]

Manon Lescaut
1/2" VHS color videocassette; May 17, 1983 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden production of Puccini's opera starring Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon, Plácido Domingo as Chevalier Des Grieux and Thomas Allen as Lescaut; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 10 minutes. [Close Window]

The Marriage of Figaro
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1973 Glyndebourne Festival production of Mozart's opera starring Kiri Te Kanawa as The Countess, Ileana Cotrubas as Susanna, Frederica Von Stade as Cherubino, and Benjamin Luxon as Count Almaviva; John Pritchard, conductor; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 48 minutes. [Close Window]

Masterpieces of Italian Art: Caravaggio and the Baroque
1/2" VHS color videocassette; program 5 of the 1990 Rizzoli-produced Masterpieces of Italian Art series; features the work of the painters Caravaggio, Correggio, Lotto, Parmigianino and Tintoretto, as well as that of architects Sansovino, Palladio, Bernini and Borromini; in English; 53 minutes. [Close Window]

McGraw-Hill Satellite Teleconference #1: From Theory to Practice: The Natural Approach
1/2" VHS color videocassette of a 2/23/94 McGraw-Hill satellite teleconference (from California State University at Long Beach) on second language acquisition theory and how to apply it to the classroom; program, moderated by Dr. Gerard Ervin of Ohio State, features presentation by Dr. Stephen Krashen and panel discussion/questions-answers with Jeanne Egasse, Erwin Tschirner, Mary Rogers, Magdalena Andrade and Elías Miguel Muñoz; topic of discussion = Tracy Terrell's Natural Approach to language instruction; available = multiple copies of teleconference handout containing biographies of conference panelists, outline of Krashen's presentation and Natural Approach theory; 2 hours. [Close Window]

McGraw-Hill Satellite Teleconference #2: A New Look at Authentic Materials
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the 2/15/95 second annual McGraw-Hill satellite teleconference (from California State University at Long Beach) on second language acquisition theory and practice; program, moderated by Dr. Gerard Ervin of Ohio State, features presentations by Dr. Wilga Rivers (Harvard University) and Dr. June Phillips (Weber State and ACTFL), and panel discussion/questions-answers with Drs. Robert Blake (University of California, Davis), Robert Di Donato (Miami University), Raymond Elliott (University of Texas, Arlington), L. Kathy Heilenman (University of Iowa), and Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku (University of California, San Diego); topic of discussion = use of authentic materials in the foreign language classroom; features videotaped examples of teachers using realia, authentic readings and video in the classroom; available = copy of teleconference handout containing outline of program; 2 hours. [Close Window]

McGraw-Hill Satellite Teleconference #3: Integrating Technology into the Language Curriculum
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the 10/23/96 third annual McGraw-Hill satellite teleconference (from California State University at Long Beach) on second language acquisition theory and practice; program, moderated by Dr. Gerard Ervin of Ohio State, features presentations entitled The Role of Technology by Dr. Robert J. Blake (University of California, Davis) and Technology and the Communicative Language Classroom by Dr. Bill Van Patten (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) followed by panel discussion/questions-answers with Drs. Gail Robinson-Stuart (San Diego State University), Richard Kern (University of California, Berkeley), Christopher M. Jones (Carnegie-Mellon University), James P. Pusack (University of Iowa), Karen Price (Harvard University); topic of discussion = attempt to answer the following 4 questions: What is technology good for? Where does technology live? What is the process for integrating technology? How does the language instructor get good materials?; 2 hours. [Close Window]

McGraw-Hill Satellite Teleconference #4: Grammar in the Communicative Language Classroom
1/2" VHS color videocassette of the Fall 1997 fourth annual McGraw-Hill teleconference (from California State University at Long Beach) on second language acquisition theory and practice; program, moderated by Dr. Gerard Ervin of Ohio State features presentations by Dr. Diane Musumeci (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Dr. Michael H. Long (University of Hawaii, Manoa); also includes panel discussion/questions-answers with Drs. Elizabeth Bernhardt (Stanford University), Patsy Lightbown (Concordia University, Montreal), Theodore Higgs (San Diego State University), and Bill VanPatten (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); topic of discussion = attempt to answer the following 4 questions: Should grammar be explicitly taught in the communicative language classroom? Does grammar instruction make a difference in the acquisition of a second language? If so, what are the effects? What approach to grammar instruction should be followed?; 2 hours. [Close Window]

Mediterraneo
1/2" VHS color videocassette; a 1991 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign film, this romantic comedy is riveted with unexpected scandal and surprising love affairs. After Italian sailors find themselves stranded on what appears to be a deserted Greek island, they there discover their enemies who soon become love interests. The sailors no longer consider themselves stranded, as this island turns out to be heaven on earth; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 30 minutes. [Close Window]

Il mestiere delle armi
1/2"VHS (PAL) color videocassette; 2001 Donatello and Golden Globe Award-winning film directed by Ermanno Olmi starring Hristo Jivkov; story of the life and death of Joanni de Medici, known as "Giovanni dalle Bande Nere", a young captain of the Pontifical troops engaged in the war waged against Pope Clement VII by German Emperor Charles V in 1526; On 11/24 of that year Giovanni is mortally wounded by an explosive missile and dies an agonizing death four days later; portrait of loneliness and the job of being a soldier; in Italian, no subtitles; 1 hour 40 minutes. [Close Window]

Il Mostro (The Monster)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; a 1994 "anything goes" comedy featuring Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi; Loris (Benigni) is taken by surprise when his new attractive roommate Jessica (Braschi) turns out to be an undercover police officer attempting to snag a suspected serial killer. Little does Loris know that he is the one being accused! A series of coincidental mix-ups makes this comedy a hilarious one with an unexpected ending; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 51 minutes. [Close Window]

Mussolini and Fascism
1/2" VHS color videocassette produced in 1991 as part of the Warwick History Video series; features Prof. J.A. Davis with Dennis Mack Smith discussing the story of Mussolini's ascent to power, separation from socialism, the 1922 "March on Rome", dictatorial powers, opportunism, the conquest of Abyssinia, the alignment with Nazi Germany, the African debacle, the 1943 invasion of Sicily; in English; 30 minutes. [Close Window]

Otello
1/2" VHS black and white videocassette; 1959 film of Verdi's opera starring Mario Del Monaco as Otello, Rosanna Carteri as Desdemona, Renato Capecchi as Iago, Plinio Clabassi as Lodovico; Tullio Serafin, conductor; in Italian, no subtitles; 2 hours 16 minutes. [Close Window]

Otello
1/2" VHS color videocassette; film of Verdi's four-act opera; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor and director; cast includes; Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Peter Glossop, Stefania Malagú, Aldo Bottion, José Van Dam, Berlin Philharmoniker; in Italian with English subtitles; synopsis available; 2 hours 21 minutes. [Close Window]

Parliamo italiano
1/2" VHS color videocassette produced by DUNE Produzioni Cinematografiche e Televise in association with Houghton Mifflin Company; designed to complement introductory Italian texts; 12 modules present the adventures of two characters, Piero and Gabriella, who travel throughout Italy (to 11 different cities/regions) with the objective of producing a travel guide for their employer, a travel agency; approximately 60 minutes.

 

Contents:	Visitare (Roma)	Vestirsi (Milano)
	Studiare (Bologna)	Lavorare (Torino)
	Abitare (Sicilia)	Viaggiare (Sardengna)
	Comprare (Umbria)	Uscire (Napoli)
	Mangiare (Liguria)	Leggere (Firenze)
	Rilassarsi (Venezia)	Sognare

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La passione dell'arte
1/2" VHS (PAL) videocassette; brief tour of Luigi Magnani's private collection of paintings (ancient and modern) and sculpture housed in the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in the park of the Corte di Mamiano near Parma, Italy; collection includes works by Gentile da Fabriano, Tiziano. Goya, Monet, Renoir, Braque, among many others; several close-ups of paintings/sculpture with commentary provided by off-screen narrator; approximately 12 minutes. [Close Window]

Pastificio Delverde: Fara San Martino
1/2" VHS color videocassette; short, informative, documentary-style film about pasta making as demonstrated in the factory of the Delverde Pasta Company; all aspects of the process, from raw materials to the lab to packaging and selling of Delverde pastas are shown; in Italian, no subtitles; 12 minutes 23 seconds. [Close Window]

Placido Rizzotto
1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassette of Pasquale Scimeca's 2001 film starring Marcello Mazzarella in the title role; based on the real life story of Placido Rizzotto, a Sicilian trade union leader murdered in 1948, who fought against the Corleonese Mafia's corruption and control of unions, its taking of land, and exploitation of peasants in the 1940s; includes violent, visually and emotionally intense imagery; in Italian, no subtitles; 1 hour 44 minutes. [Close Window]

Poetry and the Teaching of Foreign Languages
1/2" VHS color videocassette (1991); demonstration of teaching techniques where poetry is examined as a literary genre and as a means of expanding communicative skills in a foreign language; divided into three parts: Celebrating Poetry, Understanding Poetry, Creating Poetry; actual, unrehearsed classes in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, and English as a Second Language presented; shot on location at Harvard University with appearances by Harvard professors Wilga Rivers and Marlies Mueller, as well as Prof. Claire Kramsch of the University of California at Berkeley; 60 minutes. [Close Window]

Il postino (The Postman)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1995 Academy Award-winning ("Best Dramatic Score") romantic comedy starring Philippe Noiret and Massimo Troisi, with Maria Grazia Cucinotta; when the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is exiled to a small Italian island for political reasons, a local fisherman (Mario) is hired as a postman to deliver Neruda's mail to him; Mario befriends Neruda, who helps the shy, awkward postman win over the village inn's waitress (Beatrice) by showing him the power of poetry; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 48 minutes. [Close Window]

Rigoletto
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1983 film of Verdi's opera starring Luciano Pavarotti as the Duke of Mantua, Edita Gruberova as Gilda, Ferruccio Furlanetto as Sparafucile, and Ingvar Wixell as Rigoletto; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, director; Riccardo Chailly, conductor of the Wiener Philharmoniker; in Italian with English subtitles; synopsis available; 1 hour 56 minutes. [Close Window]

Romance Languages and Literatures Teaching Fellow Workshop (March 23, 1990)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; approximately 15-20 minute presentations by members of the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures on topics related to teaching techniques suggested for use in the foreign language classroom; in English; approximately 75 minutes.

Topics:

Adapting Oral Proficiency Interviews for Classroom Use
Music in the Classroom
Effective Interaction Using Groups and Teams
Writing Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

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Romance Languages and Literatures Teaching Fellow Workshop (February 28, 1992)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; approximately 15-minute presentations by Teaching Fellow members of the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures on topics related to teaching techniques suggested for use in the foreign language classroom; in English; approximately 75 minutes.

Topics:

Fill'er Up: Quick and Easy Space Fillers (activities to focus students' attention)
Snap to It (Rassias drilling method)
Action, Camera ... and Cut (student-produced videos)
Playing It Safe (games)
Instructor Exit Stage Left (student-centered activities for conversation initiation)

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Romance Languages and Literatures Teaching Fellow Workshop (February 23, 1996)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; approximately 10-15-minute presentations by Teaching Fellow members of the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures on topics related to teaching techniques suggested for use in the foreign language classroom; in English; approximately 75 minutes.

Topics:

A Bag of Magic Tricks
Listen Up!
Everyone's a comic
Wanted: Dead or Alive!
Inspired Writing: Getting the Best from Students
Please Pass the Pumpkin!

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Romance Languages and Literatures Teaching Fellow Workshop (February 14, 1997)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; approximately 10-15-minute presentations by Teaching Fellow members of the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures on topics related to teaching techniques suggested for use in the foreign language classroom; in English; approximately 75 minutes.

Topics:

Hey! What happened? (part I: Intermediate Spanish; part II: Elementary Spanish)
It's in the bag! (Elementary French)
Classroom Classics (Intermediate French)
It's transparent! (Spanish CCR)
E Dio creò la Nutella (Italian CCR)

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Salvatore Giuliano
1/2" VHS (PAL) black and white videocassette of 1961 Francesco Rosi film featuring Salvo Randone and Frank Wolff; story of Sicily's most famous gangster and supporter of the Separatist cause at the end of World War II; in Italian, no subtitles; 2 hours. [Close Window]

Scola - 1/2" VHS color videocassettes containing live or near-live international news broadcasts received daily via cable TV from Satellite Communications for Learning headquartered in McClelland, Iowa; broadcasts generally are 30-60 minutes in length and cover regional, national and international news stories; some broadcasts occasionally include other cultural programming, such as advertisements, mini-documentaries; currently videotaped broadcasts emanate regularly from the following countries: Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, South Korea, and Spain; additional SCOLA programming may be accessed via BC Cable TV, channel 14; excellent source material for exposure to target language and culture; off-air video recordings deleted from Language Lab collection after 45 days.[Close Window]

Il sentiero della pace
1/2" VHS color videocassette presentation by the Comunità Montana della Valcuvia as directed by Fabio Corradi and Rodolfo Ossuzio; this 2001 documentary focuses on "1916-1917 La Linea Cadorna" and is dedicated to the memory of those who worked during WWI to construct this defensive line; in Italian, no subtitles; 35 minutes.[Close Window]

Speak Easy
1/2" VHS color videocassette of 14 short mime sketches in which two characters interact in real-life situations; sketches move from service-related interactions between strangers, to encounters between strangers, to more personal situations involving close friends or members of family; for all levels of language student; a Teacher's Manual is available; each sketch runs 3-5 minutes; 60 minutes (total time).

Titles:

Greetings	Flat Tire
New Shoes	Library
Cab Ride	Wallflowers
Influenza	Moving In
Truck Stop	Phone Call
Chez Vincent	Argument
Airport	The Lesson

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Storia di una capinera
1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassette; 1993 Franco Zeffirelli film based on a short story by Giovanni Verga; stars Angela Bellis, Jonathan Schaech, Sinead Cusack, John Castle; dubbed in Italian (no subtitles); 1 hour 40 minutes. [Close Window]

Il teatro di Pirandello
5 1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassettes of Luigi Pirandello's plays televised by RAI between 1970 and 1986; in Italian, no subtitles; 10 hours 47 minutes (total time).

Titles:

Il beretto a sonagli	Così è, se vi pare
Enrico IV	Il gioco delle parti
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore

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Technology: Tool or Method?
1/2" VHS color videocassette recording of a "Baker's Dozen Roundtable" discussion broadcast 4/12/01 via satellite from Duke University and sponsored by the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in collaboration with Washington and Lee University and Duke University; 13 experts in applied linguistics, pedagogy and technology discuss (1) theory and practice in technology, (2) expected and assured outcomes with technology use, (3) changes in knowledge acquisition as it pertains to the technological interface, (4) technology as a transparent tool and/or method; discussion participants = Ms. Pegge Abrams (Duke), Dr. Bryan Alexander (Centenary College of Louisiana), Dr. Robert Blake (UC, Davis), Prof. Miriam Carlisle (Washington and Lee), Dr. Lise Desmarais (Canadian Foreign Service Institute), Dr. Robert Fischer (CALICO), Dr. Nina Garrett (Yale), Dr. P. Richard (Dick) Kuettner (Coordinator and Host, Washington and Lee), Dr. Jerry Larson (Brigham Young University), Dr. Jimmie Purser (Millsaps College), Dr. Clare Tufts (Duke), Prof. Ken'ichi Ujie (Washington and Lee), Dr. Clara Yu (Middlebury); 60 minutes. [Close Window]

Tintoretto
1/2" VHS color videocassette; volume 10 in the Portrait of an Artist series produced in 1984 by RM Arts in conjunction with Antenne 2; exploration of the works of Tintoretto (1518-1594) via observations made by Jean Paul Sartre about the painter's approach to scale and color, his rebellion against 16th-century conventions; magnificent views of the city of Venice and of Tintoretto's large-scale decorative panels and frescoes; in English; 65 minutes.[Close Window]

Touring Italy
1/2" VHS color videocassette; a 1992 travelogue-type presentation of Italy and its cultural and historical contributions; features beautiful photography and tours of Naples, the ruins of Pompeii, Venice, Milan, Florence, Bologna, Verona, the Italian Riviera, Pisa, Rome; in English; 60 minutes. [Close Window]

La Traviata
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1976 Wolf Trap production of Verdi's opera starring Beverly Sills as Violetta, Henry Price as Alfredo; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 20 minutes.

La Traviata
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1982 Franco Zeffirelli film of Verdi's opera starring Teresa Stratas as Violetta and Plácido Domingo as Alfredo; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 45 minutes. [Close Window]

Il Trovatore
1/2" VHS black and white videocassette; 1957 film of Verdi's opera starring Mario del Monaco as Manrico, Leila Gencer as Leonora, Ettore Bastianini as Di Luna, Fedora Barbieri as Azucena; Fernando Previtali, conductor; in Italian, no subtitles; 2 hours 5 minutes.

Il Trovatore
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1985 Arena di Verona production of Verdi's opera starring Fiorenza Cossotto, Rosalind Plowright, Franco Bonisolli, Giorgio Zancanaro; conducted by Reynald Giovaninetti; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 30 minutes. [Close Window]

Turandot
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1988 Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's opera starring Plácido Domingo as Calaf, Eva Marton as the Princess Turandot, and Leona Mitchell as Liù; James Levine, conductor; Franco Zeffirelli, stage director; in Italian with English subtitles; 2 hours 14 minutes. [Close Window]

Tutte le strade portano a Roma
1/2" VHS (PAL) color videocassette; Anna, a young tourist, discovers the secrets of Rome in seven days: the Coliseum, Vatican City and a Papal blessing, the Rome of today with information on shopping, food, transportation, Cinecittà (Italy's Hollywood), Tivoli and its fountains, wine tasting in Frascati, Trevi fountain; in Italian, no subtitles; approximately 50 minutes. [Close Window]

L'ultimo bacio
1/2" VHS (PAL) videocassette of 2001 Donatello Award-winning film directed by Gabriele Muccino; eight principal characters wrestle with the fear of growing up, responsibility, and the fear of growing older in this "story of all love stories" that focusses on Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) and Giulia (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), two middle-class thirtysomethings, who are about to get married and have a child; in Italian, no subtitles; 1 hour 55 minutes. [Close Window]

La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1998 Academy Award-winning ("Best Foreign Language Film") film starring "Best Actor" Roberto Benigni; Benigni plays an imaginative, funny waiter named Guido who falls in love and marries a schoolteacher named Dora (Nicoletta Braschi); during the last months of World War II, Guido, an Italian Jew, Dora, and their son Giosué are taken to a Nazi concentration camp where Guido uses his ingenuity and inner strength to continue to communicate with his wife (in another camp) and to protect his son from the horrors of his surroundings by turning the situation into a game; in Italian with English subtitles; 1 hour 56 minutes. [Close Window]

The World Says Welcome
1/2" VHS color videocassette (c. 1987 Monterey Institute of International Studies); a fast-paced, informative video program using real-life interviews with young Americans living and working throughout the world; designed to stimulate interest in foreign language and to provide expert advice on how to prepare for an international career; accompanying materials include: teacher's guide, counselor's guide, suggestions for use in classroom and an international careers bibliography; approximately 27 minutes. [Close Window]

The Worlds of Umberto Eco
1/2" VHS color videocassette; 1995 film shot on location in Italy and France by Gero von Boehm and Ricardo de Sanctis; interview with Eco the novelist, journalist and professor in which he expresses his thoughts on medieval aesthetics, semiotics and his own fiction, among other topics; includes a dramatization of a passage from his book The Island of the Day Before; in English; 43 minutes. [Close Window]

 

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