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Classic American Poetry

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 145 minutes), £10.99

A collection of 00 poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman read by Garrick Hagon, Lisa Ross and others

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Edward Allington: A Sculptor at Work (1993 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Special loan only (HMI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 1999 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Leeds)

While at the University of Leeds on a Gregory Fellowship, sculptor Edward Allington is shown creating a number of pieces of sculpture. He talks about where he finds inspiration, what motivates him, the...

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Heiress, The (1948)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 115 minutes), subscription only

Compelling Oscar-winning drama based on the Henry James novel ‘Washington Square’. Details compiled from TRILT - see www.trilt.ac.uk Set in the mid-19th century, the film tells the tragic tale of the...

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Innocents, The (2006)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.99

Classic 1961 adaptation of Henry James’ ‘Turn of the Screw’, with Deborah Kerr as the governess who starts to see ghosts. DVD extras include: feature commentary and introduction by Professor...

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To Engineer is Human1 (1987 Video)

Producer

Alex Nisbett

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how engineeering science is subject to human limitations. Professor Henry Petroski contends that structures can fail in ways that have been dismissed as virtually impossible. Uses footage of some of...

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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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Spinoza: The Apostle of Reason (1994 Video)

Director

Christopher Spencer

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Drama; Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Drama based on the life and thought of Spinoza, who was born in 16th-century Amsterdam to a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal. He lived in an age of turmoil, when the Dutch Republic and the English...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 2 (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

Monarchy The Complete Second Series DVD focuses essentially on the Tudors and Stuarts, encompassing how Henry VII rescued England from the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, and his solution to the political...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 1 (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £19.99

The first series of Dr David Starkey’s programmes examining the British monarchy and its relationship with its subjects over the centuries. He begins in the Dark Ages with Alfred the Great and goes up to...

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Cinema of Transgression (1979 Video)

Director

Holly Adams; Beth B; Jeri Cain Rossi; Tessa Hughes-Freeland; M Henry Jones; Richard Kern; Jon Moritsugu; Kembra Pfahler; Jeri Cain Rossi; Tommy Turner; David Wojnarowicz; Nick Zedd

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 147 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Compilation of films made by avant-garde film-makers and artists based in the Lower East Side of New York City between 1979 and 1993 They aimed to transform values by breaking all taboos of cinematic...

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