Category Archives: Movies

Summer of Soul

Summer of Soul Screenings

Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Join us for a screening of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s debut film. A powerful and transporting documentary – part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Dr. Christopher Davis will provide an introduction and follow the showing with a Q&A session. Free and open to the public.

  • February 21st at 5:30PM in Pecan Campus Building D Auditorium
  • February 27th at 10AM in Starr County Campus Building E Auditorium

 

Cold War Retrospective Film Series (Spring 2024)

The Cold War Retrospective Film Series
STC Library is thrilled to work with the STC History Department and the Liberal Arts Division to present a film series focused on The Cold War and sentiments at that time. All screenings listed below will take place in the Building D Auditorium on Pecan Campus.

Tuesday, January 30 @ 5:30PM
Dr. Christopher Davis – “Atomic Anxieties and Mutually Assured Destruction”
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Tuesday, February 13 @ 5:30PM
Martha Cantu – “McCarthyism and the Red Scare”
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Tuesday, March 5 @ 2:30PM
Dr. Kevin Holton – “Set My People Free!: Religion and Politics in Cold War America”
The Ten Commandments (1956)

Tuesday, April 9 @ 3:30PM
Dr. Jeff Justice – “Bureaucracy, McCarthyism, and the Red Scare”
Oppenheimer (2023)

Wednesday, May 1 @ 5:30PM
Presenters Dr. Jaclyn Miller, Dr. Mark Allen, and Jason Chapa – “Atomic War”
The Twilight Zone Block 2
“Third from the Sun” (Season 1, Episode 14), “Two” (Season 3, Episode 1), and “The Shelter” (Season 3, Episode 3)


 

The Cold War Retrospective Film Series

Cold War Film Series (Fall 2023)

The Cold War Retrospective Film Series

STC Library is thrilled to work with the STC History Department and the Liberal Arts Division to present a film series focused on The Cold War and sentiments at that time.

10/01/2023: New location! All screenings listed below will take place in the Building D Auditorium on Pecan Campus at 5:30PM.

Thursday, September 28th: Twilight Zone Block 1
John Terry, Dr. Robert Miller, J.J. Guajardo – “Conformity during the Cold War”

Thursday, October 26th: The Thing (1982)
Dr. Robert Miller – “Invisible Invaders: The Renewal of the Red Scare in the Reagan Years”

Thursday, November 9th: Rocky IV (1985)
Dr. Christopher Davis – “War by Other Means: The Cold War in the Athletic Arena”

Thursday, December 7th: The Parallax View (1974)
John Terry – “Paranoia and Mistrust during the Cold War”


 

Women’s History Month: Finding Vivian Maier

Women's History Month: Finding Vivian Maier (part of the She Roars series)

Join us in room F-102 for a lunch time screening of Finding Vivian Maier, provided by Academic Video Online. About the documentary:

Who was Vivian Maier? A mysterious and private woman who worked as a nanny for forty years? Or was she the 20th century’s greatest street photographer? The answer is simple: she was both. Finding Vivian Maier delves into the recent discovery of this groundbreaking artist, who for years had been wholly unknown to the art world, but has since taken it by storm. It follows John Maloof, an amateur historian who bought over 100,000 negatives of Maier’s work by chance at an auction, as he crusades to put this prolific photographer in the history books. In this documentary, Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her. Through a retrospective look at Maier’s life, Maloof creates a stunning film that provides firsthand insight into the mind of an almost-forgotten genius.

Bring your lunch on March 6th at 12PM and enjoy this film about a woman whose photography inspired thousands after her death.

A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own

Kick off STC Library’s Title IX 50th Anniversary series with a classic film about women in sports. Join us for snacks and a movie on Monday, September 26th at 11:30AM in the cafeteria of building H.

Can’t make it? Join us for an encore showing with an introduction and Q&A session with Title IX Coordinator Lauren Starnes on Thursday, September 29th at 6PM in the Student Union building.

 

Hispanic Heritage Month Documentary Series Presents: ALTAR

Click on a movie poster or scroll down to see when and where we’ll be showing ALTAR!

ALTAR: Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges

A documentary film directed by Paola Zaccaria and Daniele Basilio (2009). Research, script and executive production: Paola Zaccaria. Produced by Università di Bari and Regione Puglia. Assessorato al Mediterraneo.

In this documentary on Gloria Anzaldúa, the effort has been to document how her creative mind worked visually, how she was interested in art, and consequently her influence on women artists. After having gone through Anzaldúa’s papers (published and unpublished works, graphic works, collection of posters, buttons and t-shirts, etc.) collected at Austin University, Texas, I have been able to map her links with artists, activists and cultural centers and interviewed women who were inspired by her thinking and poetics (such as Liliana Wilson, Santa Barraza, Juana Alicia, Amalia-Mesa Bains, Antonia Castañeda, Betita Martinez, Graciela Sanchez, Gloria Ramirez, Irene Reti, and al.). We have also shot articrafts, photographies, video, painting, murales inspired to other artists by her poetics and theory of la frontera.

On the Texas borderlands in McAllen, Mission, and Hidalgo (shot in April 2008, before the actual building of the wall), we captured the material passageways between Mexican and American borders along the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo River which were the source for the texture of crossing which makes her work so special (insider guide: Daniel García Ordaz ).
A special attention has been devoted to the poet’s altares reposited in the University Library of Santa Cruz, CA (curator: Irene Reti), which were an integral part of her spiritual life and creative process as a writer and may be the best picture to visualize the frame of her creative process.

Visit the ALTAR: Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges website


 


 



*Artwork courtesy of Celeste De Luna*
For more information, please contact, Angelica Maria Garcia amgarcia@southtexascollege.edu or at 956-872-2277

Pride Month Documentary Screening “StoneWall Uprising”

The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.  Please join us to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of these historical events.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room we will be hosting a Documentary Screening with Discussion “StoneWall Uprising” led by Gabriel Sanchez  at 6:00 pm

For more information, contact Angélica María García at (956) 872-2277 or amgarcia@southtexascollege.edu or visit https://library.southtexascollege.edu/newsevents/libraryevents/

Women’s History Month Film Series

Please join us during the month of March, as all five campus libraries will be showing Women’s History Month documentaries. Below are the campus times and days when they will be showing.

 

Mid-Valley Library: 

Wonder Woman: The Untold Story of American Superheroines  – Tuesday, March 19, 2pm. BI LAB E1.106.

 

 

 

 

 

 


NAH Library: 

Women’s Power; Female Leadership Around the World  – Monday, March 18 @ 12pm. West Bldg B1.200.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Pecan Library:

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present – Monday, March 18th @ 10:00 am & Thursday, March 21 at 8:30 am Room F-102

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women’s Power; Female Leadership Around the World  – Monday, March 18 @ 8:30 am & Thursday, March 21 at 10:00 am in F-102

 

 

 

 

 

 


STARR Library:

Wonder Woman: The Untold Story of American Superheroines  – Tuesday, March 27 @ 12pm. Room K1.200

 

 

 

 

 

 


TECH Library:

I am a Girl: Girls Around the World – Thursday, March 28 at 12:00 pm in Room A-179

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Black History Month Film Series

Please join us during the month of February, as all five campus libraries will be showing Black History Month documentaries. Below are the campus times and days when they will be showing.

 

Mid-Valley Library: 

 

Broken on All Sides – Wednesday, February 13th @ 12pm. BI LAB E.106.

 

 

 

The Souls of Black Girls – Wednesday, February 20th @ 12pm. BI LAB E.106.

 

 


NAH Library: 

 

How Jack Became Black – Tuesday, February 12th @ 12pm. West Bldg B1.200.

 

 


Pecan Library:

 

Broken on All Sides – Monday, February 18th @ 11:30am. Room F-102.

 

 

 

How Jack Became Black – Wednesday, February 20th @ 1pm. Room F-102.

 

 


Starr Library

 

How Jack Became Black – Wednesday, February 20th @ 11:30am. Room K1.200.

 

 


Tech Library:

 

Broken on All Sides – Tuesday, February 12th @ 12pm. Room A-179.

 

 

 

How Jack Became Black – Wednesday, February 20th @ 12pm. Room A-179.

 

 

 

Hope to see you there!

 

Harvest of Health-Treasure Your Health

Harvest of Health

Please come and enjoy the fun! South Texas College Nursing and Allied Health Division Invites you to the 11th Annual Harvest of Health “Treasure Your Health”

STC’s Nursing and Allied Health Community Outreach Committee will host the event. It is a great way to see what types of programs NAH offers and for students to educate the community with health-related activities. There will be door prizes, a scavenger hunt, puppet show, haunted house, 911 services (McAllen Fire Department Smoke Trailer, McAllen Police Department, Air-Evac Helicopter), face painting, dementia tour, karaoke, photo booth, massage bar, and food.

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018

Where: Nursing and Allied Health Campus

Time: 4pm-7pm