Instructional Media Center Policies

Media Collection and IMC Circulation Policy

The IMC provides a variety of media that can assist USA community members in developing instruction, presentations, or completing assignments. These include educational videos, documentaries, and feature films. The IMC also houses music cds, audio cds and cassettes, and CD-ROMs.

USA faculty, staff and students may check out up to 5 media items. Media items have a 14-day loan period with a 50¢ per day late fee. Patrons who lose or damage media items will be required to pay for the replacement of the item plus a $25.00 processing fee.

The IMC provides preview rooms for reviewing DVD, VHS, and music/audio CD materials.

DVD/ VHS

Order of Myths
Call Number: GT 4211 .M6 O73 2008, Marx Library Media Collection
ISBN: 0781512689
"The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city’s two carnivals to explore the complex contours of this hallowed tradition and the elusive forces that keep it organized along enduring color lines. With unprecedented access, Brown... uncovers a tangled web of historical violence, power dynamics, and intertwined and interdependent race relations" -- Container.
Mardi Gras : made in China
Call Number: HD 9736 .C63 F89 2006, Instructional Media Center
A documentary that explores the production, consumption, and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Follows "The Bead Trail" backwards from Mardi Gras to the factories where the beads are made. When each group is shown images of the other, the cycle of misunderstanding goes a long way in explaining how the commodity chain is kept in place. Includes added post-Hurricane Katrina updates.
Mardi Gras
Call Number: GT4211.N4 M373 1985, Instructional Media Center
With colorful scenes of Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans and Mobile, this film shows and describes the history, customs and traditions of Mardi Gras in the United States, primarily in Louisiana.

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Subjects: English, Gender Studies, History, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Music, Tech Toys, Theatre & Dance, Visual Arts

Mardi Gras in Mobile: The First American Carnival: Media Materials DVD/ VHS

Instructional Media Center Policies

Media Collection and IMC Circulation Policy

DVD/ VHS

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