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Joan Mandell (email to update your profile)
Profile last updated: 10/29/03  
 
Address: 131 East Lawrence Ave, Royal Oak, MI 48073
County: Oakland
Phone (w): 248-589-5550
Phone (h): -
Fax: 248-585-5559
E-mail: olivefilm@aol.com
Website: -
 
Academic Affiliation: -
Non-academic affiliation: Olive Branch Productions
Degree: MFA
Major: Film and Television Studies and Production
Minor: Middle East
 
Specialization areas: Area Studies: Middle East, Autobiography/Biography, Media Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Oral History, Communications, Ethics, Ethnic Studies, Film History and Criticism, History: Arab American and Middle Eastern
Implementing projects as: Consultant/Planner, Presenter/Panelist, Project Evaluator
Project types: Live Events Exhibitions, School Projects, Media, New Technology
Areas willing to participate: Planning Projects, Developing Projects, Research
 
Past experience: Planner, participant and project director: NEH, CCH and MCH funded documentary film projects 1993-4; 1997. Proposal writer: 1993-present. Consultant and participant for projects in Calif, Mich, Ark, New York and Wash state 1993-present
 

Suggestions for public humanities projects:

  • humanities issues in documentary films as part of a state-wide public library project for adults that includes screenings, readings and collection development
  • diversity issues, including developing media criticism of portrayals and stereotypes for youth and young adults at schools and libraries
  • Arab American and Middle Eastern communities in the US: history, culture and folklore: bringing stories to a wider community
  • how to use oral history research and production in producing videos and other documents for local communities
 
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