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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (1977) (2004)

Subject

Literature

1977 film adaptation by Joseph Strick of James Joyce’s first novel.

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Big Sleep, The (1977) (2000)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

1977 film version of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye novel, with Robert Mitchum starring as Philip Marlowe and the story transposed to the UK in the 1970s.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 (1995 Film)

Director

Florian Hopf; Maximiliane Mainka

Subject

German studies; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Interviews with Fassbinder, conducted mainly by the film critic Florian Hopf in 1977. The close relationship which Hopf and Fassbinder had built up over many years is evident in the uncommon frankness of the...

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Christmas Lectures 1977: The History of Mars (1977)

Subject

Astronomy; Science

Carl Sagan’s introduction to the Red Planet from the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures series from 1977 is streamed here by the Ri Channel as part of a collection of videos gathered under the...

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Joseph Andrews (1977)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 99 mins), $19.99

1977 film adaptation of Fielding’s novel with Peter Firth in the title role.

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Marina Abramovic: Video and Performance (1995 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 116 min.

A retrospective of selected video and performance pieces by Marina Abramovic, originally compiled to accompany her exhibition ‘Objects, Performance, Video, Sound’ at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford....

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Vascular Structure of the Palm ‘Rhapis Excelsa’ (2 Parts) (1977 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14, 10 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p) part 2 1996 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) part 1

1 (1977-78): Illustration of the three-dimensional anatomical structure using a two-dimensional sequential (running) picture in which time replaces the third dimension. Long series of microscopic cross...

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Quantum Physics (4 Parts) (1977 Audio)

Producer

Michael Bowen

Subject

Chemistry; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 30, 9, 9, 8 min.

Part 1 (1977): A descriptive account of the table together with an elementary account of the arrangement of electrons in the different elements. Parts 2 & 3 (1976): An account based on the vector model of...

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. I: Dissent (1969-1977) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 978 minutes), £69.99

This box set brings together all of the surviving standalone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969- 1977, including such neglected classics as Horace, ‘Penda’s Fen’, ‘Diane’ and...

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Before the Monsoon (3 Parts) (1979 Video)

Director

Michael Grigsby

Producer

Karin Magid

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51, 53, 37 min.

Part 3: in March 1977, after the end of the state of emergency, the Congress Party was defeated in the elections and the Janata Party came to power. Migrant labourers conclude that nothing has changed for them.

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