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Introduces basic genres and shows how genres provide contexts for characters in fiction and how they can be used as a critical concept in analysing film and music. Through vignettes, illustrates the various...
A film of the stage production ‘The Brig’ by Kenneth H Brown at the Living Theatre, New York, directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck, depicting twenty-four hours in a marine brig in Japan.
During his long and varied career, Jacques Tourneur tackled a breadth of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. With NIGHTFALLi, he returns to the noir genre. Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction...
Chardin became known as the master of the still life in 18th-century France. This film discusses the hierarchy of genres in the 18th century, among which the still life was the lowest category. Shows...
Documentary which looks at the life, career and influence of Ray Harryhausen, a man deemed the grandfather of stop-motion animation. Famous for his work on films such as JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) and...
Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...
The television commercial is a unique art form, challenging the makers to squeeze a lasting message into a tiny time slot and it has been part of television since the early days of live broadcasts, which...
Three programmes edited from seven hours of Super-8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and 1977. All...
An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...
This seven DVD collection presents newly rediscovered and meticulously restored films of less known German filmmakers such as Robert Reinert, Richard Oswald, Curt Goetz, Hanns Walter Kornblum, Fritz...
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