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  1. Spending the Kids’ Inheritance (1996 Video)

    Director
    Russell England
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An insight into the lifestyles of the elderly people who prefer to spend their old age travelling around the USA in camper vans and recreational vehicles rather than more conventional ways. Every January...

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  2. Marimba Music of Mexico (1967 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Although in Guatemala and in Chiapas the marimba is often played by Indians in the mountains, most Latin-Americans have come to associate the marimba with the music of the mestizos, people of mixed Indian...

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  3. Woman Being (1997 Video)

    Director
    Wen-jie Qin
    Subject
    Sociology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 20 min., 1999 sale: US$220.00 (+p&p) PAL version

    Looks at women’s attitudes towards beauty and sexuality in contemporary China. By focusing on women’s perceptions of their bodies, depicts the tremendous changes that have occurred in China over the past...

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  4. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1947 Video)

    aka: Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen

    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £24.00

    The material was recorded by Maya Deren when she went to Haiti on four trips to make a film of Haitian dance. Having become increasingly involved with the voodoo experience she abandoned her original...

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  5. Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003)

    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £17.99

    Before becoming known for such films as as ADAPTATION and BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, Spike Jonze had made a name for himself as a music video director, creating innovative works for bands including The Beastie...

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  6. Paris - The Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern (2011)

    Director
    Perry Miller Adato
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

    A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theatre and beyond....

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  7. IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

    aka: House of Life, The

    Director
    David Byrne
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

    An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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  8. Wild West, The (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

    Director
    Ric Burns
    Producer
    Lisa Ades; Ric Burns
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume

    A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...

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  9. When Everything Falls Apart / Breaking the Cycle: Domestic Violence in Alexandria (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. 1: In the waning days of the Mobutu regime, people in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) return to traditional...

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  10. Liza with a ‘Z’ (1972)

    Director
    Bob Fosse
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 51 minutes), 16.99

    In May 1972, Liza Minnelli, the Oscar winning star of that year’s blockbuster musical ‘Cabaret’ made television history with a televised concert filmed at New York’s prestigious Lyceum Theatre. The...

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