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Color Purple, The (1998)

Subject

Literature; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 mins), £12.99.(version 1)£19.99 (version 2)

Film adaptation of the novel by Alice Walker. Version 1 of the DVD was released in 1998 and the extras are just 3 trailers. Version 2 of the DVD, released in 2003, includes four documentaries by Laurent...

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Inside China: Living with the Revolution (1983 Video)

Director

Leslie Woodhead

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Filmed in south-east China (near Wuxi in Jiangsu province) follows the daily life of three Han peasant families living in communes. Concerned with the discontinuities the older generation have faced since...

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Patrick Blanc: The Vertical Garden - From Nature to Cities (2011)

Subject

Agriculture; Architecture; Environmental science

Video recording of a talk by Patrick Blanc, world-renowned botanist and inventor of the vertical garden, and creator of Drew School’s ‘living wall’ - the largest such installation in the U.S. The talk...

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New Towns Record, The (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

CD-ROM

A resource collection on the UK new towns programme, containing over 40 master plans, over 40 key books, articles items of legislation, white papers and other documents, together with papers from key...

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Computational Science and Engineering (2007)

Subject

Mathematics

This course of 32 video lectures by Gilbert Strang of MIT provides a review of linear algebra, including applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers. Also covered are:...

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Inside China: The Newest Revolution (1983 Video)

Director

Leslie Woodhead

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Filmed in two Han communities around the city of Wuxi in south-east China. Looks at the new emphasis on material incentives after years of Maoist austerity. Four women sing ‘we exchanged our chickens for a...

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Khumi Lives (2010)

Director

Ittukgula Changma

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...

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Kazakhs of China, The (1983 Video)

aka: Inside China: The Kazakhs

Director

André Singer

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Kazakhs are horse-riding herders of sheep and yak, living on a vast territory administratively called East Wind Commune in Sinkiang province of China. For the first time a western television team was...

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JetÉe, La/Sans Soleil (2003 Video)

aka: Pier, The

Director

Chris Marker

Producer

Anatole Dauman

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (126 minutes), £19.99

Two films by Chris Marker combined on one tape/DVD - LA JETEE and SANS SOLEIL.

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Frida Kahlo (2007)

Director

Wibke von Bonin; Roberto Guerra; Eila Hershon

Producer

Roberto Guerra; Eila Hershon

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £17.99

Portrait of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), wife of Mexican painter Diego Rivera, and the creator of highly personal work. Afflicted with illness throughout most of her life, Kahlo painted a...

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