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London (1993 Video)

Director

Patrick Keiller

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 80 min., £15.99 (inc.)

Records fictitious journeys through the real London, shot by Patrick Keiller over a period of 12 months, capturing a city in decline. The year 1992 saw the re-election of the Conservative government, the...

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Song of the Shirt, The (1979 Film)

Director

Susan Clayton; Jonathan Curling

Subject

Economics; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An investigation into the position of working women in the 1840s, the effects of protectionist philanthropy and the resistance to it. Deals with a group of women working in the new ‘sweated’ clothes...

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Sheer Filth (1986 Video)

Director

Michael Dibb; Christopher Rawlence

Producer

Michael Jackson

Subject

Media studies; Psychology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 38 min.

Television is often held responsible for permissiveness, excessive consumerism, unruly behaviour of children, copycat crime and riots. The programme challenges these claims and suggests that television’s...

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Teaching African Cinema (1998 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 116 min., 1998 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Video-based teaching pack for examining the huge variety of African cinema and understanding its historical, political and social contexts. The pack contains four sections: Context; The Development of Film...

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Crossroads: Enter Mickey Doyle (1986 Video)

Director

Gina Newson

Producer

Michael Jackson

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 38 min.

Looks at CROSSROADS to show the introduction of a new character, Mickey Doyle, played by Martin Smith. From first script meeting to auditions, rehearsals and shooting, shows how the character develops and...

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Bill Brand (4 of 11 Parts) (1976 Video)

Director

Stuart Burge; Roland Joffe; Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Producer

Stuart Burge

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 56 min.

A drama series depicting a year in the life of a maverick left-wing Labour MP.

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Media in English (1991 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min.

Six extracts from children’s television, showing presenters of TISWAS, BLUE PETER, MOTO-MOUTH, RAINBOW, KNIGHTMARE, and BELLAMY’S BUGLE.

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Real People (1986 Video)

Director

Gina Newson

Producer

Michael Jackson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 48 min.

Looks at the role of ‘ordinary’ people in television, from victims of crime, to contenders for THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Television requires people to act naturally on cue and talk about personal experiences...

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Screening ‘Middlemarch’ (1994)

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £70.50

A video-based resource pack, planned and edited by the British Film Institute’s education staff. The video analyses one sceen, looking at some of the decisions made in its production; compares a chapter of...

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Caretaker, The (2002)

aka: Guest, The

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 mins), £19.99

Based on the play by Harold Pinter in which a tramp moves in with two brothers. The play was first performed in 1960 and the shooting of this film began two years later. Two cast members of the original...

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