Anthony- You're overthinking it. It was an effective way to get away from having hundreds of PN1997s. We can tweak it anyway we want to.
Hitchcock is in British films, but could just as easily been classed with American. Same for whether or not to place Bunuel in Spanish or French. Billy Wilder is considered an American (i.e. Hollywood) director, so his films are within American. And if it was a problem having Brokeback mixed in with a handful of Asian films, we'd have found a way to reclass it to land within American films. Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | barbara.berg...@mnsu.edu From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Anderson Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 6:34 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question about LC call numbers Barbara! Just curious: Brokeback Mountain is categorized as an Asian film because Ang Lee comes from Taiwan. Do you handle in the same manner all the many films made by all the many directors who have come from abroad and established themselves as Hollywood directors? Are Psycho and Vertigo classed as British films because Hitchcock came from the U.K.? The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard classed as Polish cinema because Billy Wilder was born in (what is now) Poland? And all the American films directed by Fred Zinnemann, Ernest Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Douglas Sirk, Otto Preminger, etc., etc.? I don't know but some people might find it amusant that Zinnemann's quintessential American musical Oklahoma! might be considered to be an Austrian movie...? Just curious.... Cheers, Anthony ******************************* Anthony E. Anderson Social Studies and Arts & Humanities Librarian Von KleinSmid Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 antho...@usc.edu<mailto:antho...@usc.edu> "Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou." *********************************
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