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The Charm School, salisbury

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

33

NoS ID

351952

Story no

7 / 7

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: Girls learn to increase their charm at a Salisbury School which teaches charm and trains mannequins. Rhodesian Spotlight Commentary - We always know that beauty is not skin...

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Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30, 40 min., 1997 sale: US$195.00 (+p&p) set

Bell Hooks, Professor of English at City College of New York, argues for the transformational power of cultural criticism.

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End of the Road (1969 Film)

Director

Aram Avakian

Producer

Terry Southern; Stephen F. Kesten

Feature film adapted from the novel by John Barth. Jacob Horner (Keach) is an emotionally disturbed young college professor who enters a catatonic state and undergoes therapy from an unorthodox psychologist,...

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How to Read a Film: Multimedia Edition (2000)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM), £117.00

This multimedia edition of James Monaco’s book of the same name features movie clips, pictures and slide shows, guides to other references and interactive elements which enable the user to create their own...

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American Cinema: Film Language / Writing and Thinking About Film / Classical Hollywood Style Today (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 90 min.

Follow-up to the 10-part history of seven decades of American cinema.

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Room 237 (2013)

Director

Rodney Ascher

Producer

Tim Kirk

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £11.44

Rodney Ascher’s documentary about The SHINING features fans, critics and scholars speaking about the film who reveal a surprising number of theories about the meanings, codes, clues and subtexts hidden in...

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Genres - An Introduction (2001 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2001 sale: £44.65 (inclusive)

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...

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Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (2018)

aka: The Criterion Collection: Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Director

Ingmar Bergman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $239.96

This collection spans six decades and 39 films, including classics such as The Seventh Seal, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander alongside previously unavailable works like Dreams, The Rite and Brink of Life....

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Psychoanalysis and the Image 2 (1994 Video)

Subject

Art; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Darian Leader discusses the relationship of psychoanalysis to art with reference to the value we put on art - and why Matisse cried when he saw a film of himself painting. Parveen Adams discusses theories of...

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Music from the Flames: Shostakovich (1978)

Producer

Ian Engelmann

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

This film tells the story of the Russian composer’s life covering his training during the 1917 revolution, the criticism he faced during the 1930s when he was dubbed a formalist by the authorities, and how...

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