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Filmfinder
The Collection
Faculty Support
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Equipment Loans
Policies
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Directions
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. Phone: (919)-962-2559
Email us
Summer/Fall Intercession Hours
July 26 - August 18
Mon - Fri: 8am-4:45pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: Closed
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The Ellen-Fairbanks D. Bodman Collection
of Middle Eastern and Islamic World Films
About Ellen-Fairbanks D. Bodman
The daughter of a Smith College faculty member, Ellen-Fairbanks Diggs
immersed herself in academia from an early age and responded to its challenge.
She graduated from Smith College with Phi Beta Kappa honors and magna cum laude
in history and musicology. She later earned a master’s degree in American
history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she became an
instructor in 1946. During this time, she adopted the nickname "Taffy"
and married Herbert Bodman, who was focusing on an academic career in the
emerging field of Middle East and Islamic studies. His studies helped influence
her decision to audit courses in Arabic and Turkish at Princeton University - an
exclusively male school at the time.
For two years, Taffy Bodman taught at the American University of Beirut,
where she taught English and research techniques to Arab, Persian, and Afghani
students, and she traveled as much as she could while raising two young
children. While Herb taught at McGill University in Montreal, completing his
Princeton doctorate, Taffy continued teaching international students from the
Muslim world.
Taffy assumed a new career after her husband won a grant from the Social
Sciences Research Council, developing instruction materials in Middle East and
Islamic studies. She decided to write a book on documentary films, including
where to find them, with critical essays on the Muslim world. For twenty-five
years, she persuaded producers and filmographers to deposit copies of their
films in the UNC-Chapel Hill library in exchange for showing their films at the
four-day annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America
(MESA, www.mesana.org). She also convinced the Turkish Embassy to lend many of their rare and
archival films in exchange for dubbing them all on video; she created two copies
of each film, one for the Turkish government, the other for the UNC-Chapel Hill
library. The MESA film program attracted hundreds of film buffs to their
meetings, which featured forums for leading directors to discuss their work with
the foremost filmmakers in the Islamic world.
As a result of her efforts, the film collection at UNC-Chapel Hill is the
largest compilation of films on the Muslim world in North America, and perhaps
in the English-speaking world.
Lending Policies
Academic institutions in the continental United States may request films
from the Middle Eastern Film Collection by contacting the staff of the Media
Resources Center by email or through institutional requisition forms at least
two weeks in advance of the show date. We do not lend films to individuals or
institutions outside the continental United States. Films must be shipped to
addresses, not to Post Office boxes, and are sent through United Postal Service
(UPS), insured for $400 per film shipped. Rental price is $25 per day, per
title, in addition to 10% of the total cost charged for shipping and handling or
the actual shipping cost charged by UPS—whichever is greater.
Inquiries about the collection should be addressed to the staff of the Media
Resources Center, CB#3492, R. B. House Undergraduate Library, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3942, or by phone at (919)
962-2559.
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Video Clips
These video clips are from miscellaneous raw footage gathered by noted
Central Asia scholar Dr. Louis Dupree. The footage is primarily scenes and
images shot in Afghanistan at various times doing Dr. Dupree's field studies of
the region.
Afghanistan 1930's
(8.77 MB) • more info

Afghanistan 1977:
Do Trade and Aid Guarantee Development?
(8.4 MB) • more info
Afghanistan 8: words and deeds
(7.6 MB) • more info
Afghanistan and the Superpowers
(12.3 MB) • more info
Afghan exodus
(9.6 MB) • more info
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