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We are located in the northeast corner on the lower level of the R.B. House Undergraduate Library (the Undergrad) across from the ATN computer lab.
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Summer/Fall Intercession Hours
July 26 - August 18
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Mon - Thurs: 8am-9:45pm
Fri: 8am-4:45pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 2pm-9:45pm

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General Information About Our Collection
The following links are tools to help you search our collection:

Filmfinder
Search through our documentary and feature film collection to find the title you want, then check to see if it is available.

Learn a New Language
Searchable database "LinguaSearch" lets you search our collection of language materials.

Books on CD (PDF)
Download the PDF that contains our CD catalogue.

New Arrivals
The most recent additions to our documentary and feature film collection can be found here.

Reserves
Looking for a reserve? We've changed the way you find them; out with the paper books and catalogs, in with the internet.

CD Collection
CD Catalog sorted by artist (PDF)
CD Catalog sorted by genre (PDF)

Other Film Resources
Provides links to other film collections and resources on campus.

Copying of commercial programs, including television programs, is not permitted under international copyright law without the written permission of the copyright holder.

The Bodman Collection of
Middle Eastern Films
This outstanding collection includes films on a wide range of topics and genres relating to the Middle Eastern and the Islamic World, including documentaries on art and architecture; anthropological, geographical and political studies; literary classics; and feature films. Many of the collection’s titles are rare and several others are exclusive. For example, the Media Resources Center holds the sole copy in the United States of the 1970 film about Chinese Muslims in Taiwan (Muslim Activities in the Republic of China and Taiwan, 1970. 65-V590).

The collection’s films document historical and political changes, as in a rare 1960s film documenting the Hajj, the annual Muslim ritual to Mecca (Mecca, the Forbidden City, 1965. 65-V1488). Seen in conjunction with more recent films in the collection, these films can offer a comparative study of this massive pilgrimage, yesterday and today.

The Media Resources Center’s growing collection of Middle Eastern and Islamic World film has been amassed over the past twenty years, largely through the efforts of Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman, UNC Film Consultant and internationally-recognized specialist on films of the Middle East and Islamic World. Through her close association with the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) FilmFest and with the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar (SERMEISS), and the North Carolina Department of Social Sciences, the Media Resources Center has been able to build a collection useful for academic scholarship, research, instruction, and outreach efforts to schools and the general public. Films that include historical commentaries, religious analyses, descriptive tours of geographic regions and individual countries, and documentaries are all available due to Ms. Bodman’s years of generous contributions to the Library. Today, this collection is subsidized through a grant from the United States Department of Education, in coordination with UNC’s University Center for International Studies.

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The Finehout Film Collection
In 2002, Robert Finehout donated much of his film collection to the Media Resources Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, with the assurance to donate more films in the future. The collection consists of several hundred 16mm prints of TV documentary series, classroom films, Warner Bros. and Disney cartoon anthologies, wartime training and informational films and many feature film classics, including The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. The Finehout Film Collection is available for viewing through the Media Resources Center.

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