LibGuides: *ECC's Film and Lecture Series 2022-2023: Spring 2023 Film and Lecture Series

January and February

Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023 3:00 pm – Annual MLK Celebration (hosted by Neighbors United - Undoing Racism)

The guest speaker is Rev. Darryl Gray, Director General for Social Justice at the National Progressive Baptist Convention; and Executive Director of Missouri Faith Voices.

Entire Month of February

Online Black Film Festival
Watch two films, enter to win!

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 6:00 pm – Documentary: Summer of Soul (2021)

"...Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slFiJpAxZyQ&t=1s

Princess Noire by Nadine Cohodas
ISBN: 0375424016
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
"...the triumphs and difficulties of the brilliant and high-tempered Nina Simone, whose distinctive voice and music occupy a singular place in the canon of American song'
The Sound of Stevie Wonder by James E. Perone
ISBN: 0313051089
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
"Wonder was one of the first Motown artists to have complete control over the writing, arranging, and recording of his songs, and achieved that stature before he was 20 years old."
King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise
ISBN: 0802158056
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
"Riley 'Blues Boy' King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from ..."

Spring ECC All-Campus Read

Various events held in March 2023 - TBD

Visit Campus Life and Leadership office to pick up your copy.

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
ISBN: 0316434787
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.

March

Entire Month of March

Online Women's History Film Festival
Watch two films, enter to win!

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 6:00 pm – Documentary: Be Natural: the Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

"A documentary about the first female filmmaker, exploring the heights of fame and financial success she achieved before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create. Guy-Blaché started her career as a secretary to Léon Gaumont and in 1896, at 23, was inspired to make her own film called La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy), one of the first narrative films ever made." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPUJRtrp_EE&t=1s

Alice Guy-Blaché - brief biography
..The first woman director, she is also generally acknowledged to be the first director to film a narrative story...

The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché by Anthony Slide (Editor); Roberta Blaché (Translator); Simone Blaché (Translator)
ISBN: 1538165503
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
"The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, one of the industry's most significant pioneers and a trailblazer for female directors. Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) is a unique pioneer of the motion picture, being not only a female filmmaker but also one of the first, if not the first, to make a narrative film. Her career spanned from 1894, when she became secretary to the legendary Léon Gaumont, through 1920, working in both her native France and the United States. In all, she was responsible for approximately 1,000 films, possibly more than any other director or producer.
Celluloid Ceiling (ebook) by Virginie Selavy; Rachel Millward; Gabrielle Kelly (Editor); Cheryl Robson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780956632906
Publication Date: 2014-06-17
Highlighting emerging women directors alongside ground-breaking pioneers, this is a one-stop guide to the leading women film directors of the twenty-first century? and those who inspired them.
Pink-Slipped (ebook) by Jane M. Gaines
ISBN: 0252083431
Publication Date: 2018-02-23
More fictions: did Alice Guy Blaché make La fée aux choux (The cabbage fairy)?

Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, 2023 - Riverside Short Film Festival (Downtown New Haven at the Walt Theatre)

April

Wednesday, April 25, 2023 6:00 pm – Documentary: The Voice Within (2022) in collaboration with the Theater Department's Production of Run-on Sentence

"Taking a deeper look at incarcerated individuals for who they are as people, not just as a crime they committed, experience a two-week Prison Performing Arts workshop along with inmates at the women’s prison in Vandalia, Missouri. An unforgettable journey of soul searching and honesty, witness the transformational power becoming actors and artists has on these women’s lives." https://www.prisonperformingarts.org/post/ppa-movie-the-voice-within

Outlaw Women by Rosemary Bratton; Susan Dewey; Bonnie Zare; Catherine Connolly; Rhett Epler
ISBN: 1479801178
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
...examines the forces that shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as "the Western frontier."
The Story Within Us (ebook) by Megan Sweeney (Editor)
ISBN: 9780252078675
Publication Date: 2012-09-11
...features in-depth, oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls.
Razor Wire Women (ebook) by Jodie Michelle Lawston (Editor); Ashley E. Lucas (Editor)
ISBN: 1438435312
Publication Date: 2011-04-11
Offering nuanced portraits of women's lives inside razor wire and prison walls, Razor Wire Women puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators, and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 7:00 pm in HS 100 – Poetry Reading Hosted with the ECC English Department

2022 Poetry Libguide

*ECC's Film and Lecture Series 2022-2023: Spring 2023 Film and Lecture Series

"We are excited to announce our 2022-2023 Film and Lecture Series--please mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details about guest speakers and events! We have exciting plans and collaborations coming up this year.

Unless otherwise noted, events are held in the John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center and are free and open to the public."

- Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor, Student Media Adviser, English, Journalism and Mass Media Faculty Mentor

January and February

Spring ECC All-Campus Read

March

April

*ECC's Film and Lecture Series 2022-2023: Spring 2023 Film and Lecture Series

"We are excited to announce our 2022-2023 Film and Lecture Series--please mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details about guest speakers and events! We have exciting plans and collaborations coming up this year.

Unless otherwise noted, events are held in the John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center and are free and open to the public." - Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor, Student Media Adviser, English, Journalism and Mass Media Faculty Mentor

January and February

Spring ECC All-Campus Read

March

April

Unless otherwise noted, events are held in the John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center and are free and open to the public."

- Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor, Student Media Adviser, English, Journalism and Mass Media Faculty Mentor