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Anthony Burgess: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (1973)

Director

John Musilli

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess takes a freewheeling look at James Joyce’s great experimental novel "Finnegans Wake". Burgess has always been fascinated by Joyce’s final work: its idiosyncratic...

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Great Writers: Anthony Burgess

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $19.99

British novelist and critic Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), was best known for his controversial novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962). He was born in Manchester and was educated at the University of Manchester. He...

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Prose Readings: Anthony Burgess

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotapes in which eminent writers and poets read their works and discuss ideas, influences and thoughts on life. On this tape Anthony Burgess reads extracts of his work.

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Making ‘Junk’ (1999 Video)

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £19.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching pack on Barry Purchese’s adaptation of ‘Junk’, the Melvin Burgess novel of teenage heroin addiction. Includes: interviews with Burgess, the production team and cast of...

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Clockwork Orange (1971 Video)

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Subject

English language and literature; Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131 minutes), £19.9 (WHV)9 £39.99 (CDA)

Kubrick’s controversial screen version of the novel by Anthony Burgess. A violent and bleak vision of the future. The DVD includes the illustrated screenplay containing 800 still images from A Clockwork...

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) (1990)

Director

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Producer

René Cleitman; Michael Seydoux

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 138 minutes), £19.99

Adaptation of the 19th-century play by Edmond Rostand based on the 17th-century Savinian Cyrano de Bergerac, who suffers when his love for cousin Roxanne remains unrequited. The French couplets are...

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Britons at War 3 (2001)

aka: Welcome to Britain, A

Subject

History; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99 (inclusive)

A WELCOME TO BRITAIN was made to explain funny money, warm beer, driving on the wrong side of the road, and other British customs to apprehensive young GIs arriving in war-time Britain. Starring Burgess...

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Over Paid, Over-Sexed and over Here

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

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

" Paid, Over-sexed and Over Here" contains two films made to welcome US troops to Britain in 1943. "A Welcome to Britain" features Burgess Meredith, Beatrice Lillie and Bob Hope. "Letter from Ulster"...

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Afterglow, The: A Tribute to Robert Frost (1989)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 35 minutes), $29.95 ($89.95 institutional rate)

Burgess Meredith reads a selection of Robert Frost’s verse recreates some of Frost’s best verse, setting it in perspective with commentary on the poet’s life and work.

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Visual Display Units: A Doctor’s View (1980 Video)

Director

Trevor A Scott

Producer

Trevor A Scott

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 14 min.

Argues that the demands on the eyesight of a VDU operator are similar to those experienced by a typist. The Civil Service screening programme has covered several thousand operators and disclosed no medical...

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