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  1. Writer in His Labyrinth, The: MÁrquez on Bolivar (1992 Video)

    Director
    Anjana Patel; Christopher Spencer
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    English language and literature; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    An investigation into the controversy surrounding Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel ‘The General in His Labyrinth’, which portrays Simóm Bolívar as a man plagued with bitter memories.

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  2. Miniatures (1992 Video)

    aka: Book of Hands, A: A Journey Through the World of Indian Miniatures

    Director
    Ruchir Joshi
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Collectors and scholars discuss the tradition of Indian miniatures, often regarded as the most beautiful paintings in the world. Shows the work of copyists living in Rajasthan, which has fooled the experts.

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  3. Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990 Video)

    aka: Holocaust, The: Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

    Director
    Jill Fullerton-Smith
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Re-examines memories of Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry on the eve of German unification. Explores the controversial ideas of author Professor Arno Mayer and the wider arguments about...

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  4. Tahar Ben Jalloun: Moorish Fantasies on the Left Bank (1992 Video)

    Director
    Greg Lanning
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Profiles Tahar Ben Jelloun, a Moroccan novelist whose controversial work has won the French Prix Goncourt. Ban Jelloun is interviewed in Paris and extracts of his work are dramatised.

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  5. City of Joy (1991 Video)

    aka: Phantom of Joy

    Director
    Dilip Varma
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Concerns the controversy surrounding the Roland Joffe film ‘City of Joy’ which has been beset with charges of racism and media exploitation of poverty. Includes interviews with Joffe and actor Patrick...

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  6. Chingiz Khan: A Much Misunderstood Leader (1990 Video)

    Director
    Jill Fullerton Smith
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Chingiz (Genghis) Khan (1162-1227), the Mongol leader, built an empire larger than any other state system before or since. Had he been born in Europe, he might be seen as a hero; because he came from Central...

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  7. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford...is Shut, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Celia Lowenstein
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is an impressive collection of artifacts of many peoples of the world. Formed by an old-fashioned colonialist, it confirms the cultural imagination of humankind. Contributors...

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  8. Living Tradition, The (1992 Video)

    Director
    B Kaliasam
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Looks at the ancient Indian Vaastu tradition of art and architecture. Shri Ganapti Sthapati, whose family have been sculptors since the 11th century, explains the roles which monuments and buildings have...

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  9. Thanks Be to God we Are Secular (1990 Video)

    aka: Islam: Turkish Style

    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Politics & government; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Examines the Turksih experience of Islam, particularly the tolerant reaction to a series of articles in the Turkish magazine ‘Towards 2000’. The magazine took chronicles from the 7th century to expose...

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  10. Spinoza: The Apostle of Reason (1994 Video)

    Director
    Christopher Spencer
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Drama; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    Drama based on the life and thought of Spinoza, who was born in 16th-century Amsterdam to a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal. He lived in an age of turmoil, when the Dutch Republic and the English...

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