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  1. Disappearing Childhood (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Neil Postman argues that childhood is disappearing as a result of watching television. Shows that children are not passive receivers of their culture but active agents in their own socialisation and...

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  2. Creation of Childhood, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...

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  3. My Favourite Things (1997)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R), £34.99 (CM)

    Visits seven households in the UK to consider the meanings that people attach to objects in the home. Shows how, despite individual variations, each household reveals patterns of importance attached to...

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  4. Coleridge: The Fountain and the Cave (1972)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £14.10

    Shot in some of his best loved locations, this programme portrays the life and poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poems and excerpts from Coleridge’s letters and diaries, are read by Paul Scofield. Covers...

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  5. Yesterday’s Britain: ‘Doon the Watter’ (1988 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of three short British Transport films. 1 (1966): Emotional qualities of life in Glasgow. Traces the Glasgow man from the inhabitant of a Clydeside hamleet tot he beneficiary and victim of a...

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  6. Fateless (2006)

    Director
    Lajos Koltai
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 minutes), £19.99

    Imre Kertész’s adaptation of his own Nobel prize-winning novel (based on his childhood experiences) about a Jewish boy who tries to come to terms with the new hellish world that faces him when he is sent...

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  7. Piaget in Perspective (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Anne Diack
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Piaget’s life and work. After tracing his early childhood and initial work in Paris and Zurich, concentrates on his development of the study of child intellect. Using extracts from historical...

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  8. Mother Knows Best? (2000)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Explores the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge, using as illustrative examples two common issues facing parents, one old (the child who will not sleep) and one new (the possible side...

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  9. Changing the Mould: Reformist Trends in Japanese Education (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Meg Sheffield
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Although the Japanese educational system is thought to be both advanced and extremely important in the lives of all Japanese, it is not regarded by them or by their educationists as completely satisfactory....

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  10. Health Visiting and the Family (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Clare Falkner
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social welfare
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the work of health visitors and how they understand their role. Considers whether their efforts to meet health needs may be mediated by particular cultural views of childhood and motherhood which...

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