Vawter, Ron

Swoon ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 170 libraries worldwide
A film noir "thriller" that presents the true case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, brilliant young men from good Jewish families, who were convicted for murdering a 13-year-old boy.

The silence of the lambs ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 157 libraries worldwide
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.

Born in flames ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1983 and 2006 in English and held by 136 libraries worldwide
A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart. With their fury growing and all peaceful options exhausted, women overcome divisions of race, class, and sexual orientation to form a guerilla movement to take over control of the media.

The wind chill factor by Thomas Gifford ( Recording )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 97 libraries worldwide
Some Nazi survivors of WWII view their defeat as a mere temporary setback, with plans long in motion. Their key personnel are in place in the corporations and capitals of every major nation. By the end of the this century, it will all be theirs. John Cooper is an heir to this Reich reborn, an evil he thought he'd turned his back on.

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in English and held by 60 libraries worldwide
Ron Vawter performs two linked monologues: the first, a portrayal of a classic Roy Cohn after-dinner speech for the Society for the Protection of the American Family; the second, is Vawter's remounting of Smith's own "performance-of-the self," entitled "What's underground about marshmallows?" and originally performed by Smith in 1981.

What's underground about marshmallows? Ron Vawter performs Jack Smith ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1995 and 2000 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide
Constitutes the second half of Vawter's performance piece "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith". The full work consists of two linked monologues: the first, a portrayal of a classic Roy Cohn after-dinner speech for the Society for the Protection of the American Family; the second, recorded here, Vawter's version of Smith's own performance-of-the self, "What's underground about marshmallows?", originally performed by Smith in 1981.

Sex, lies, and videotape ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide
Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.

Richard Foreman ontological-hysteric theater. Vol. 1 ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
[Sophia: the cliffs]: An early play by avant-garde theater pioneer Richard Foreman, whose "notion at the time was a theater that at every moment confronted the audience with the sheer 'presence' of performer, text, music."

Brace up ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1992 and 2000 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide

Volcano saga Iceland, 1985 ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide
After a car wreck, a woman experiences a dream fantasy of a woman living in Iceland 1,000 years ago; special visual effects provide a surrealistic ambience.