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Signs of the Times (1986 Video)

Producer

Anne Diack

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Umberto Eco talks about his novel ‘The Name of the Rose’, the history of semiotics, and how we ‘read’ the world by understanding all the signs within it. Shows Eco in his country home, in an art...

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Media Screen Roundup - November 2014

Date

22 Dec 2014, 10:52

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In the month the new James Bond film was...

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Suspect Community: An Investigation into the Operation of the Pta (1986 Video)

Subject

Law; Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

An examination of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) since its introduction in 1974. Focusses on its repressive effects on the Irish community in Britain. The tape moves between the experiences of people...

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Age of Terror, The (2004)

Subject

History; Philosophy; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

Documentary revealing the legal, moral, ideological, political and historical aspects of worldwide terrorism through candid interviews with, amongst others, the Brighton Bomber and the most infamous ANC...

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Eco-System of the Pine Processionary Caterpillar ‘Thaumetopoea’ (1960 Film)

Director

R Enrico

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An account of the life cycle of the pine processionary caterpillar plus an illustrated list of predators and parasites which attack eggs, larvae, pupae or adult stages.*

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Second Nature (1984 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Derelict land can be regard as either decaying poisoned wasteland or an uncultivated wildlife site. It co-exists with the steady erosion of greenfield sites. The Ackers Project in Birmingham and the West...

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Reclaiming the City (1984 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Birmingham has become a concrete city designed to cope with the motor car but ignoring its human components, resulting in a dangerous and unattractive environment. Planners and architects are concerned with...

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Cruelty or Conservation (1985 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1993 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The English countryside may look natural but it has largely been man-made, partly for agriculture and partly for pleasure. Opinion polls say that a majority of people oppose hunting and shooting, but...

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Biology Compilation S204 (2001)

aka: Videocassette Compilation S204 (Ou)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Band 1: Investigating Life on a Small Scale - examines some of the special problems encountered by very small, i.e. unicellular, organisms, especially protoctists. Band 2: Investigating Suspension Feeders -...

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Street Fight (2008)

Director

Marshall Curry

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £14.99

STREET FIGHT chronicles the ferocious political clash in 2002 between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Yale Law School graduate, and long term incumbent Sharpe James, for Mayor of Newark, N.J. Fought in Newark’s...

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