Films and Videos: Aging and Older People

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Films and Videos Aging and Older People

• Martha W. Bonney
• SU Gerontology Center
• May 19, 2008

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Ill cover these topics...

• Video reviews by gerontologists, for example, in
  The Gerontologist
• Searching on AgeLine database (AARP)
• Well-known distributors of videos about aging
• A list of videos, 2000-2008

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Movie Reviews by Gerontologists

• The Gerontologist Audiovisual Reviews
• 30 years, 70 reviewers, 5 Audiovisual Editors
• 2002-February 2007, subscribers can access online
• Robert Yahnke Personal website The Great
  Circle of Life (1988)a resource guide to films
  and videos on aging
• Aging and the Cinema (2006)
• compiled by Rick Scheidt Ph.D., for the American
  Psychological Association, in MS Word format

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AgeLine http//www.aarp.org/research/ageline/index
.html

• online, bibliographic database produced by AARP
• focuses on...aging and middle-aged and older
  adults,...social, psychological, economic,
  policy, and health care aspects of aging.
• when searching, do NOT include aging, aged,
  or elderly

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AgeLine search for recent videos
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AgeLine limit years
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AgeLine limit audience type
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AgeLine limit document type
3. document type
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AgeLine 202 hits!
Video synopsis
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AgeLine synopsis of video
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AgeLine what format?
DVD or Video Cassette?
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AgeLine hotlink to publishers site...
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newer, more popular videos are on both VHS and DVD
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AgeLine descriptors
1. controlled vocabulary
2. browse subjects
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Ageline controlled vocabulary
2. Insert specific term
1. Browse, or
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Ageline subject search
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AgeLine Thesaurus of Aging Terminology
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Well-Known Video Distributors

• Allan King Films Ltd., http//www.allankingfilms.c
  om/, 416-964-7284, mail_at_allankingfilms.com
• Bullfrog Films, www.bullfrogfilms.com,
  800/543/FROG (3764), info_at_bullfrogfilms.com
• Direct Cinema Limited, http//www.directcinema.com
  , 310-636-8200, info_at_directcinemalimited.com
• Fanlight Productions, www.fanlight.com,
  800-937-4113, info_at_fanlight.com
• Filmakers Library, www.filmakers.com,
  212-808-4980, info_at_filmakers.com
• First Run Icarus Films, www.frif.com,
  718-488-8900, mailroom_at_frif.com

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Well Known Video Distributors

• McNabb Connolly, http//www.mcnabbconnolly.ca, a
  leading Canadian distributor of US and Canadian
  videos, 866-722-1522, info_at_mcnabbconnolly.ca
• New Day Films, www.newday.com, 888-367-9154
• Terra Nova Films, www.terranova.org,
  800-779-8491, tnf_at_terranova.org
• Women Make Films, www.wmm.com, 212-925-0606,
  orders_at_wmm.com
• Netflix.com rents DVDs, provides video clips.

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List of Recommended Videos, 2000-2008

• A-G
• H-L
• M-R
• S-T