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  1. Blue Collar (1978)

    Director
    Paul Schrader
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (109 minutes), £15.99

    After writing TAXI DRIVER for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this little-known drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. The film is one of...

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  2. Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (2010)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $250.00

    A powerful new documentary based on the book by Dave Zirin, The People’s History of Sports, in which he argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the...

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  3. Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, A (1995 Video)

    Director
    Martin Scorsese; Michael Henry Wilson
    Producer
    Florence Dauman
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A history of the American cinema from its beginnings to the 1970s, from the point of view of director Martin Scorsese. Includes illustrative film excerpts.

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  4. Mario Vargas Llosa with John King (1986 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    John King gives a brief introduction to Mario Vargas Llosa’s life and main works. Vargas Llosa then talks about ‘The War at the End of the World’ and the historical reality which inspired him to write...

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  5. 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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  6. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2013)

    Director
    Oliver Stone
    Producer
    Oliver Stone
    Subject
    American Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 581 minutes), £19.50

    Ten-part documentary series directed and produced by Oliver Stone and co-written by Stone and historian Peter Kuznick. The series looks back at human events that at the time went under-reported, but that...

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  7. Race, Gender and the Politics of Containment (1997 Video)

    aka: More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same, The: African American Women and the Politics of Containment

    Subject
    Sociology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1998 sale: £10.00 (inclusive)

    In a public lecture Professor Patricia Hill Collins examines the current position of African-American women in the USA and looks at some of the strategies that have been deployed to confine their personal...

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  8. War, The (2013)

    aka: War, The: A Ken Burns Film

    Director
    Ken Burns
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £39.99

    Ken Burns’ seven part documentary series film focuses on World War II in a bottom-up fashion, viewing the conflict through the experiences of four quintessentially American towns: Luverne in Minnesota,...

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  9. Driving While Black (2001)

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    This film is based in Cincinnati where friction between the Police Department and the African-American population has escalated into confrontation more than once in the past thirty years. The issue of...

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  10. Patrolling the American Lake (1998 Video)

    aka: American Lake, The

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With the end of the Cold War there is no longer any clearly identified ‘enemy’ against which the USA can deploy military defences in the Pacific, but the US military presence is still huge, especially in...

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