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Pierre Bonnard (1984)

aka: Pierre Bonnard: Les Aventures du Nerf Optique

Director

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Producer

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

A study of the French post-impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) exploring the rooms of the house where he lived for many years with his wife and model, seen in many of his paintings. Reveals him...

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Raymond Carver - Dreams Are What You Wake Up from (1989)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £125.00

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize, yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences,...

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Philip Larkin (1982 Film, Video)

Director

Andrew Snell

Producer

Andrew Snell

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Interviews Larkin’s friends Kingsley Amis and Noel Hughes and talks to critics and admirers - Professor Christopher Ricks, the playwright Alan Bennett and the poet Andrew Motion - about Larkin and his...

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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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Introduction to ‘Piers Plowman’ (2 Parts) (1975 Audio)

Director

N.C. Collins

Producer

N.C. Collins

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 37, 34 min.

Part 1: Professor Harold Brooks highlights the influences of Langland’s life and education on his work, sketches the criticism of 14th-century religious and social life found in ‘Piers Plowman’ and...

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Every Day Except Christmas (1957 Film)

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Leon Clore; Karel Reisz

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A personal view of Covent Garden market from midnight to mid-day, Director Lindsay Anderson’s describes the film as ‘a lyrical documentary’ - an attempt to bring poetry and humanity back into...

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Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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Key Moments in the ‘Commedia’ 1: Inferno I, 1 - 3

Subject

Italian studies; Literature

Podcast in which Matthew Traherne of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies considers the first three lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Traherne sets the lines in context, then reads them, first in Italian,...

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Dante: The ‘Divine Comedy’ (1999 Video)

Subject

Italian studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An introduction to ‘The Divine Comedy’, containing visual intepretations by the Topiary Dance Group; the Doré illustrations of 1861; location footage from Florence; discussions of themes, plot and...

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Stevie Smith - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Extracts from a radio interview with the British poet and novelist Stevie Smith. Described as one of the most original poetic voices to emerge from the thirties, Stevie Smith’s eccentric, mischievous,...

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