There is no list of Latin American videos held in the Penn libraries, nor is there a search that will capture all videos that are Latin American. Leaving aside the issue of what constitutes "Latin American" (films made in Latin America? produced by Latin Americans? treating Latin American themes?, etc.), one can create a useful list with a number of different search strategies.
One option is to do a keyword search in Franklin
Use the word "videorecording" and combine it with a word or
words that often appear as subject headings for films. For example, theatrical
films generally have the subject heading "motion pictures, [adjective
of country name]" (e.g., "Motion pictures, Cuban")
and documentaries might have subject headings such as "Music-Cuba."
Here are some search examples:
"skey" limits the keyword search to the subject field.
"?" truncates the search word.
(To learn more about keyword searching click here.)
"?" truncates the search word.
(To learn more about keyword searching click here.)
Another option for searching Franklin is to set search limits before performing a keyword search for
"videorecording."
To set limits:
- click the "All Search Limits" button.
- On the limits page, choose "Portuguese" or "Spanish" from the first part of the list or "South American Indian" from the second part.
- Click the "Set Limits" button. You will be returned to the main search page.
- Perform a Keyword search for "Videorecording." (To learn more about keyword searching click here.)
Use VCat, which excludes all non-video records from Franklin.
Browse VCat using facets:
- browse by country of production.
- browse by spoken language or subtitle language.
- can also browse by title or director.
Video collections on campus
- The Casa Latina has a Resource Library of books, videos, audio cassettes, and compact discs.
- The Latin American and Latino Studies program has a Video Library of over 50 films
