Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
In Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, Sanditon, a group of people set out to build their own town on the English seaside. Welcome to Sanditon is a modern, multiplatorm adaptation of the novel from the team behind the wildly popular Pride and Prejudice–based videoblog series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Jay Bushman was the transmedia producer and a writer for the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and is Welcome to Sanditon’s showrunner and creator.
Reviews of The Quiet Man, The Other Dream Team, and Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story, plus a full list of audio reviews from the May 1 issue.
Hoopla, Midwest Tape’s pay-per-circulation media streaming service for public libraries, has been in beta-testing mode for close to two months, and early reports of both the service overall and its mobile applications have been positive.
What’s Coming on DVD/Blu-ray
A unique series of hard-to-find works from particular filmmakers celebrates a milestone
Tax season is over for most of us, but with extensions and delays and those few stragglers, we thought catching up on some economics-themed documentaries would be just the thing for the spring. Our chief economics reviewer, Lawrence R. Maxted, from Gannon University in Erie, PA, has his eye on the pulse of what’s been taxing all of us lately—plus with a lost interview with Steve Jobs.
Reviews of Sleep Tight, Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet, and Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria; A Story of One Man’s Search for Ancestry, Identity and Community, plus a full list of video reviews from the Apr. 15 issue.
Upcoming foreign and indie releases.
The scoop on upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases.
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