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Exploring the Novel: For Entertainment and Comprehension (1991)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 48 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

This DVD introduces students to the traditions of realism and Romanticism. Dramatized selections illustrate such major elements as charaters, plot, setting, style, point of view and theme. Includes excerpts...

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Bridegroom, The Comedienne and the Pimp, The (1968 Film)

Director

Jean-Marie Straub

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Film in three acts: the first and last are real-life sequences, and the middle act records a short theatre piece by Bruckner filmed on stage in Munich. The director of the film attempts to prove the premise...

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American Realism of the 20th Century (2014)

Subject

American Studies; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £14.99

From Hopper to Wyeth, authors trace back the growing tendency to Realism in American art that emerged after the First World War. In stark contrast to European Modernists, US artists made their nation the...

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Theory and Methods (1997)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

An introduction to sociology, demonstrating the major theoretical perspectives from classical sociology, positivism, interpretivism and realism, and examines their implications for research, using student...

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Alfredo Ceibal: A Painter of Magical Realism (1992 Video)

Director

Anjana Patel; Christopher Spencer

Producer

Tariq Ali

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

About the work of the exiled Guatemalan artist, whose miniaturised oil paintings are influenced by the events and characters of his country.

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Russian Concept, The: Reflections on Russian Non-Conformist Art (2010)

Director

Igor Sopronenko

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £140.00 [Institutional rate]

This documentary explores the conceptual trend in nonconformist art of 1960-1980s in the USSR: art that arose out of a a spirit of resistance to the government-imposed style of Socialist Realism from the...

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From Romanticism to Realism

Director

Alain Jaubert

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), £19.99

Three 30-minute films from the Palettes series. The paintings studied are: Delacroix - Liberty Guiding The People; Ingres - The Turkish Bath; Courbet - A Burial At Ornans

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Otto Dix (1989)

aka: Otto Dix: The Eye of the World

Director

Reiner E Moritz

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 59 minutes), £14.95

The psychological realism of the German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) embodies the traumatised despair and violent decadence of Germany between the wars. As this video shows, Dix’s visionary creation of art...

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Histoire(S) Du Cinema (2008)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 260 minutes), £34.99

In the this 3-DVD volume HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA, consisting of eight episodes made between 1988 and 1998, Jean-Luc Godard examines many of cinemas most important facets, including its birth, the emergence of...

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Western Approaches (1944 Film, Video)

Director

Pat Jackson

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A story of the Atlantic convoys. Survivors of a torpedoed merchantman, adrift in a lifeboat in the Atlantic, are shadowed by a German U-boat waiting to torpedo the ship coming to their rescue. (Much of the...

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