Women's Studies: Films and Videos
Veiled Revolution
27 min., First Run/Icarus Films, 1982 - this documentary deals with the changing lives of women in the Arab world by looking at the early feminists of Egypt in the 1920s who removed the veil and those of today who are returning to the traditional dress. BJ 1292 W6 V44 1982. VIDEO
Victor/Victoria
133 min., SMP, 1982 - feature film by Blake Edwards starring Julie Andrews and Robert Preston. FILM/VIDEODISK VDK-1
Vine and the Fig Tree
27 min., 1967 - pictures the young secretary of Labor, Francis Perkins, the first woman to serve in a President's cabinet, confronting the economic devastation of the 1930's with 13 million workers unemployed, farmers thrown off the land, and men standing in bread-lines. FILM
Violence against Women
32 min., Osanka and Johann, Human Relations Media, c1995- Provides an understanding of the causes and the effects of violence against women. Includes comments from victims and their assailants as well as legal and family crisis experts. HV6626.V54 1995
Viridiana
Spanish with English Subtitles, 90 min., MFI, 1961 - Virdiana, a novice nun, is put under a burden of guilt and turned from her vocation by a forlorn fetishistic uncle. One of Banuel's most famous scenes is the Beggars' Banquet performed with Handel's Messiah blaring on a phonograph. FILM
Visions of the Spirit: A Portrait of Alice Walker
By Elena Featherston, 1989, 58 min., dist. by Women Make Movies - A profile of Walker as mother, daughter, philosopher and activist. PS 3573 .A425 Z9 1989. VIDEO
Voices from the Underground: Survivors of Prostitution Speak Out
VCT 960 VIDEO