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Dickens Before Sound (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 171 minutes), £12.99

This collection of films, the majority of which are previously unreleased, shows how early cinema storytelling developed, as practitioners of this new art struggled to transform a tale from page to screen....

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Divorce Iranian Style / Runaway (1997)

Director

Kim Longinotto; Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Subject

Anthropology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 167 minutes), £12.99

This DVD features two films by Kim Longinotto, whose work is characterised by a sensitive and compassionate approach to her subject matter, which often concerns women on the fringes of society. DIVORCE...

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Scale is the New Geography (1953 Video)

Director

Demitrios Eames

Subject

Design; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $12.50

An original way to understand and teach the idea of scale, the key to effective citizenship and scholarship. In total the DVD includes 12 short films on scale: A FEW TOOLS FOR TEACHING SCALE, ADDITIONAL...

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Riddle of the Dome, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows Florentine architect Massimo Ricci as he attempts to unravel the secret construction methods used by Filippo Brunelleschi in building the dome of Florence cathedral. He has built a house-sized...

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Changeling, The (1993 Television, Video)

Director

Simon Curtis

Producer

Simon Curtis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 2003 sale: £125.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A television production of Middleton and Rowley’s drama of love, murder and vengenance. In this version much of the original sub-plot has been cut to concentrate on a dark story of lust and revenge between...

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Dracula (2006)

Director

Bill Eagles

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

A terrifying new version of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of sex, death and desire. Returning to the original novel for his inspiration, Stewart Harcourt’s script draws both on elements of Stoker’s own...

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Alice (2011)

aka: N Co z Alenky

Director

Jan Svankmajer

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £19.99

Jan Švankmajer’s award-winning ALICE is a distinctly disturbing and creepy interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s perennial literary classic, yet it is perhaps the closest to the original work. Combining a...

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Alice in Wonderland (2003)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Jonathan Miller’s 1966 television adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story. His vision of the story was a picture of upper-middle-class Victorian society, pompous, irascible, stuffy and addicted to...

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (1995)

Producer

Andrew Macaulay

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £80.00

Discusses post-traumatic stress disorder. In two parts: 1 (18 min): Shows the nature of the experience, using a railway incident as the main example, and but also includes Aberfan, Skopje, battle stress and...

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Structure and Capabilities of Human ‘Mid-Brain’ Infant (1960 Film)

Producer

R C MacKeith

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows an anencephalic female infant aged 12 weeks, lacking all parts of the central nervous system above the mid-brain, which is intact but deformed. The infant is seen held up, sitting on a physician’s...

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