NOVA Libraries: Feature Film Friday

NOVA Libraries is excited to announce Feature Film Friday: a series highlighting films that are available to the campus community through our Video Streaming Collections. Each Friday, we will feature a different film being used by faculty to support college programming and coursework. All of the content in our Video Streaming Collections is available for free to everyone in the NOVA community and can be accessed from anywhere. To learn more about these collections and how you can include streaming video in your courses, check out this Streaming Video Guide.

This week, we are highlighting the work of Dr. Cheri Lemieux Spiegel (AN) and her use of the film Encanto in ENG 275: Women’s Literature. Cheri is using Encanto alongside a novel, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova, to facilitate a conversation regarding representation of gender norms and family dynamics within Latino communities. This film will help students explore representations of community and gender in multiple modalities rather than privileging the written word.

This week’s films are available for streaming through Swank Digital Campus, a platform that NOVA Libraries uses to purchase individual titles for classroom use. Although these films are primarily used for coursework, they can also be watched outside of class for fun, which we hope you’ll do with our featured films each week! Requests for Swank films are made during the Spring semester, which is our annual Swank Request Period. For more information, contact Melanie Medina or Molly Anderson. If you’re already using a film from our Video Streaming Collection in your course and want to be featured on a future Friday, please fill out this survey. Otherwise, keep an eye on the Daily Flyer to see what we spotlight next! 

Watch Encanto on the Swank platform until Sept. 2023.

Submitted by:
Molly Anderson, WO-Library, MAnderson@nvcc.edu