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Dramatic Genres: Studying Comedy (2012)

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £95.00

This resource consists of a 96 page photocopiable booklet and a 2 hour DVD. The DVD features Dr Eric Langley and Professors Adam Roberts and Dan Rebellato on Shakespeare’s comedies, theories of laughter...

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Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (1916 Video)

Director

Fred Paul

Producer

Chris Austin

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. st. 62 min., 2004 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

The first of Oscar Wilde’s social comedies, directed by British director Fred Paul. The screenplay by Benedict James involves the addition of subplots and an inventive rethinking of the order in which...

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Bancrofts at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, The, 1865-1880 (1994 Multimedia)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 50 slides. b&w & col.

Chiefly associated with the mild domestic realism of Tom Robertson’s comedies, Marie Wilton and Squire Bancroft with their distinctive brand of ‘wholesome fare’ attracted middle-class audiences, first...

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Last Bolshevik, The (1994)

aka: Tombeau d’Alexandre, Le

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another in the form of six video "letters" sent to him...

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American Cinema. Vol 2: Romantic Comedy / Film Noir (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 105 min., 1997 sale: £11.99 (inclusive)

A 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema, released in five volumes.

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How Green is Your High Street & Once More with Ealing (2007)

Subject

Business studies; Economics; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £75.00

Two programmes made in a collaboration between the BBC’s MONEY PROGRAMME and the Open University’s Open Business School. HOW GREEN IS YOUR HIGH STREET - The giants of Britain’s high streets are...

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Way of the World, The (5 Parts) (1975 Video)

Producer

Peter Duguid

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 4 x 52 min, 1 x 106 min.

Five Restoration comedies adapted for television. 1: By Sir John Vanbrugh. 2: By Thomas Shadwell. 3: By Sir John Vanbrugh. 4: By Sir Charles Sedley. 5: By William Congreve, adapted by Robin Chapman. With...

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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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Georges Méliès: Le Premier Magicien du Cinéma (2010)

aka: Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema

Director

Georges Méliès; Georges Franju

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 896 minutes), 65.95 Euros

Geoges Méliès built the world’s first movie studio in 1896 near Paris, from where he produced his films of fantasy, dream, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies;...

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Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies (2015)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 355 minutes), £24.99

The twelve films Chaplin made for the Mutual Film Corporation from 1916-17, previously only available on two DVD volumes from the BFI, have been fully restored in High Definition and brought together in a...

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