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Trouble with Science, The (1989 Video)

Producer

Meg Sheffield

Subject

Education

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Examines why it is that science is an unpopular subject with girls and explores how their behaviour in lessons reinforces sex-role stereotypes. Shows three schools and the University of Cambridge. At...

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Riddles of the Sphinx (2013)

Director

Laura Mulvey; Peter Wollen

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £19.99

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 film is a landmark moment in British avant-garde filmmaking which fuses feminist theory with formal experimentation to create an elliptical narrative exploring issues...

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Outstanding Supervisors’ Video, The: How to Supervise a Doctorate (2017)

Subject

Careers Guidance; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), On request

This video provides a unique resource for academics new to doctoral supervision, and will help more experienced supervisors to reflect on their practice. ‘The Outstanding Supervisors Video’ has been...

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Biomechanics Practicals (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

CD-ROM

A series of fully evaluated problem-oriented CAL materials to support laboratory practicals on human subjects.

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Queen of Spades, The (1948)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (1911)

Director

Alice Guy-Blache; Lois Weber

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1320 minutes), $59.96

In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued...

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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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300 Years of Housing (2002)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

This film provides a brief introduction to the evolution of UK housing over the last three hundred years. It replaces an earlier film ‘A Brief History of Housing’, which has now been discontinued. Using...

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Grey Gardens (1976)

Director

Albert Maysles; David Maysles

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 91 minutes), £39.99

An impossibly intimate, absorbing insight into the lives of two eccentric and reclusive women: Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie. As aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie"...

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Great Palace, The: The Story of Parliament (1984 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £360.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at the history and working life of the British Parliament. 1: Uses models to recreate the 1000-year history of the royal palaces at Westminster and shows Westminster Hall, built by Richard...

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