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  1. Detroit (2017)

    Director
    Kathryn Bigelow
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 143 minutes), £4.99

    A report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police to search the Algiers Motel. A group of young people staying there are forcefully and viciously interrogated by the riot task force. By the end of the night,...

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  2. Requiem for Detroit (2010)

    Director
    Julien Temple
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    A BBC documentary about the story of Detroit’s automotive industry. Using extraordinary archive footage, including vivid projections of the city’s heyday on its now abandoned buildings, the testimony of...

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  3. Detroit: Ruin of a City (2005)

    Director
    Michael Chanan; Ralph Steiner
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 92 minutes), £115.00 [University rate]

    Once an industrial powerhouse and the hub of the American automobile industry, Detroit is now in serious decline and one of the poorest, most segregated cities in the USA. With the participation of Detroit...

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  4. Blue Collar (1978)

    Director
    Paul Schrader
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (109 minutes), £15.99

    After writing TAXI DRIVER for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this little-known drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. The film is one of...

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  5. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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  6. Reluctant Comrade, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Jane Treays
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Story of Robert Robinson, a black car worker at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, who in 1930 accepted a year’s contract to work at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant in Russia. While there he was elected to...

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  7. Mass Producing Fords (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Henry Ford’s Model T is for many the symbol of mass production. Ford followed a tradition of scientific management, analysing work practice and reorganising so as to reduce the need for skill and...

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