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Bauhaus: Myth of the Modern (1998)

aka: Bauhaus: Model and Myth

Director

Kerstin Stutterheim; Niels Bolbrinker

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £145.00 (University rate)

This documentary tells the story of the Bauhaus school from its foundation by Walter Gropius in 1919, through its tumultuous history and far-reaching influence on 20th century art, design and architecture....

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Penelope (2011)

Director

Ben Ferris

Subject

Classical studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 80 minutes), £90.00

A lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War. It draws on the long-take filmmaking style of...

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All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Politics of Hope in a Time of Fragility (2018)

Subject

Politics & government; Social sciences

Distribution

Audio (Download)

Right wing populism stalks Europe and has a representative in the White House. Our politics are destabilised by uncertainty while our economies are undermined by uncertainty. In this podcast, journalist Gary...

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Friendship’s Death (1987)

Director

Peter Wollen

Subject

Film studies

A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...

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Mathematics Goes to the Movies (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Mathematics

An enormous amount of our leisure time is spent interacting with the media, watching television and movies. Much of the space on our computers (and on the Internet) is taken up with static and moving images,...

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American Cinematographer Legendary Conversation with Roger Deakins, The (2011)

Subject

Film studies

Video recording of Roger Deakins in conversation with American Cinematographer Associate Editor Jon Witmer. Deakins is a nine time Oscar nominee for Best Cinematography and the recipient of the 2011 Lifetime...

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Second Time As Tragedy: Austerity Under Thatcher and the Coalition (2012)

Subject

Politics & government

Deborah Mabbett’s lecture examines some of the similarities and differences between the economic policies of the Thatcher government and the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition government which came to power...

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Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK (2007)

Subject

English language and literature

This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes 71 5-minute audio extracts and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two...

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Damming the Euphrates (2005)

Subject

Archaeology; Environmental science

In June 2000, the world media gave extensive coverage to the flooding of the Euphrates River behind a dam in southeast Turkey. As the waters rose, Zeugma, an important Roman city containing high quality...

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Five Numbers (2005)

Subject

Mathematics

A series of 15-minute programmes in which Simon Singh investigates the history of some of the most special numbers in mathematics - zero, Pi, the golden ratio, the imaginary number and infinity.

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