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  1. Margaret Tait: Selected Films 1952-1976 (2006)

    Director
    Margaret Tait
    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £10.00

    A compilation of 7 short films by the Orcadian filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait, a forerunner of the English experimental directors of the late 20th century.. Over the course of 36 years she produced over 30...

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  2. Just an Illness (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 41 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p) OU

    Based on the ideas of Susan Sontag as described in her book ‘Illness as Metaphor’, the programme explores the impact of AIDS on contemporary society, comparing it to previous plagues which aroused...

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  3. Telling Stories/Framing the Questions (1993 Video)

    Director
    Mags Noble
    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies; English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 119 min., 1994 sale: £80.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Part 1: ‘Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of them All’ is a sequence designed to compare and contrast with the original, but looks at the art of storytelling as well as at ‘the story’. ‘Storytelling at...

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  4. Framing the Questions / Truth, Imagination and Value (1993 Video)

    Director
    Mags Noble
    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies; English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 117 min., 1994 sale: £80.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The course takes as its focus the two epic poems of Homer, ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’. Part 1 places the archaeological site of Troy geographically and topographically; interviews Professor...

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  5. Krishna in Spring (198 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    'Holi’, the Indian festival of spring, retells through music and dance the story of the life of Krishna, the Indian god of love and the arts. Krishna is portrayed through poetry and songs, dance drama and...

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  6. Emily Dickinson (2004)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £13.74

    By any standards a remarkable poet, the fact that she lived in an age when poets were supposed to be men and any ideas contrary to the norm were outrages in the eyes of society, Emily Dickinson’s work is...

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  7. T S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’: A Poem of Hope (1973 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 60 min.

    Professor Harold Brooks questions those views which see Eliot’s poem as one of despair and horror. He indicates the three main planes on which Eliot handles his criticism of modern society, and takes the...

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  8. Raga (198 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Opens with Yehudi Menuhin playing a record of the morning raga ‘Ahira Bhairava’ and shows musicians playing the same raga in their city of Jaipur in Rajasthan. Shows how the complex raga system is...

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  9. Frontlines Backyards (1997 Video)

    Director
    Andrew Ward
    Producer
    Andy Minnion; Lande Pratt; Andrew Ward
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Explores the the cultural politics of the CNER Frontlines Backyards conference held on 6-7 December 1996. Draws on interviews with conference presenters and comments from attendees, looking at some of the...

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  10. Letter to the World (2010)

    Director
    Suzie Hanna
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 9 minutes), £15.00

    Commissioned for the Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Oxford, in 2010. The film is designed to interpret some of the poet’s tropes including her microscopic representation of the outdoors...

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