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Soviet Art (1981 Film, Video)

Director

Binia Tymieniecka

Producer

Binia Tymieniecka

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses official art in the Soviet Union; its organisation, its role in society and its history since the time of the experimental and subsequently repudiated period of the early 1920s. Dissident movements...

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Lovelies and Dowdies (1974 Film)

Director

Ken McMullen

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'Lovelies and Dowdies’ is a surrealist play written by Stanislaw Witkiewicz shortly before his death in 1938. The film was built around a performance of his play at Edinburgh by the Polish experimental...

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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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Three Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade, Landscape, Revue (2013)

aka: 3 Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade, Landscape, Revue

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL)

Three documentaries by Russian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Includes; BLOCKADE, LANDSCAPE and REVUE. In BLOCKADE, Loznitsa draws on three-and-a-half hours of silent footage acquired from the St. Petersburg...

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History of Art, The (6 Parts) (2000 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, 6 videocassettes. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p) each 2000 sale: £149.95 (inclusive) set

A series chronicling the development and history of art from medieval times to the 20th-century, with analysis and interpretation by Chris Muir and Dr George Speake. 1: The flourishing of secular art under...

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Shakespeare and Love: Helen Hackett (2012 Radio)

Series

Essay, The

Producer

Mohini Patel

Fourth of a five-part series of radio essays exploring Shakespeare’s portrayal of love and how his work affects perceptions of love. In this episode, Professor Helen Hackett reflects on the enduring power...

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Imperialism and Progress: The Victorian Era (1860 - 1915)

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £39.00

Illuminates the quest for world dominance and wealth that spurred empire-building among European governments. Examines how this pursuit of power led them to exploit the poor both at home and abroad. Reveals...

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History of British Art, A (1996 Video)

Director

Martin Davidson; Rik Lander; James Muir; Tanya Seghatchian; Paul Tickell

Producer

Gillian Greenwood

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 50 min., 2003 sale: £350.00 (+VAT +p&p) series 2003 sale: £125.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Series tracing the history of British art from 1066 to the present. Presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon travels across the country, presenting a picutre of the cultural life of a nation embracing not only in...

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Kuhle Wampe (1932 Video)

aka: Wither Germany?

Director

Slatan Dudow

Producer

Georg M Hoellering; Robert Scharfenberg

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68, 48 min., 2004 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A 68-minute feature film written by Berthold Brecht, focusing on the fortunes of a working-class family in depression-era Berlin and the disastrous consequences of poverty and mass unemployment which forced...

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Coriolanus (2012 Video)

Director

Motoi Miura

Video recording of the Chiten company’s staging of Coriolanus for the Globe to Globe season. Directed by Motoi Miura with Dai Ishida in the title role. All other roles were performed by a chorus of four....

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