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Euripides’ ‘Cyclops’ (1995 Video)

Director

Russell Shone

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 65 min., 1997 sale: £5.00 (inclusive)

A performance of the only surviving Greek ‘satyr’ drama, ‘The Cyclops’ of Euripides, by ChloÎ Productions at the Theatre Museum, London, in March 1995. The production shows the use of masks and...

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Richard Strauss: Elektra (2010)

Director

Nikolaus Lehnhoff

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £24.99 (DVD); £29.99 (Blu-ray)

Performance of Richard Strauss’s tragic one-act opera ELEKTRA, recorded at the Grosses Festspielhaus during the Salzburg Festival in 2010. Some of the vocalists featured in the leading roles include Irene...

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Dances with Llamas (1997 Video)

Producer

John Bulmer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Charts the preparations for Tinku, the raucous annual festival in Tamacuri, an ancient village high in the Bolivian Andes and home to the Macha people. Tinku is a chaotic, deadly affair banned by the village...

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Denim: A New Look (1990 Video)

Director

Jennifer Murray

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how second-year fashion and design students at Brighton Polytechnic produced various denim garments as part of an exhibition for the Brighton Festival 1990. The brief was to take a fresh approach to...

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Second Mrs Kong, The (1995 Video)

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 120 min.

Video recording using two cameras of a performance of ‘The Second Mrs Kong’, an opera by Harrison Birtwistle with libretto by Russell Hoban, performed at by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at...

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Festival of the Chicken (1992)

aka: Fest des Huhnes, Das

Director

William Wippersberg

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $14.99

Spoof anthropological documentary in which Black African explorers push their way into the expanses of Upper Austria to study practices and customs of the tribes living there. The churches, once an important...

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Iraq Museum, The: The Loss of a Nation’s Memory (2009)

Subject

Archaeology

In April 2003, American troops entered Baghdad and the fog of war descended over the city. The staff of the National Museum of Iraq, under Director Dr. Donny George, were forced to abandon the Museum...

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Masque of Red Death, The (1964)

Director

Roger Corman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.00

While the plague rages throughout Europe, sadistic Italian prince Prospero dallies with devil worship. To entertain his fellow Satanists, Prospero hosts a lavish ball in the confines of his castle, but the...

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Poetics of Movement, The (1996 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 93 min., 1997 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Dominique Dupuy has been a highly respected presence in French contemporary dance for over 50 years. In 1996 the International Workshop Festival invited Dupuy to work with dancers and performers in the over...

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My Nose (2007)

Director

Gayle Kirschenbaum

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 13 minutes), free for academic use

One can hardly come closer to stereotypes than talking about Jewish noses and Jewish mothers. In My Nose Gayle Kirschenbaum proves that there is still room for an original take on both subjects. Her witty...

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