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Women and Allegory: Gender and Sculpture in Two Societies (1999 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Contrasts representations of women in Indian and French sculpture. Compares religious images from the ninth-century temples at Khajuraho in India with Dalou’s secular ‘The Triumph of the Republic’,...

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Modernist Primitivism: Gauguin and Pont-Aven (1999 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks critically at contemporary ideas of the ‘modern’ and the ‘primitive’ by focusing on the late 19th-century work of French painter Paul Gauguin. Examines the cultural and social environment of...

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A216 Videocassette 1 (1999 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 180 min., 2000 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Support video in six parts for the A216 course: 1) Architecture: how an architectural style (antique classical) can be read both as a system and as capable of carrying meanings; 2) Understanding Painting and...

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Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)

aka: Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £17.99

Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...

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Gothic in India: Bombay Railway Station (1999 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Victorian Gothic Revival-style Victoria Terminus Train Station in Bombay was built as an expression of British power and wealth in India, but it also reflects a meeting point of two cultures. Its...

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Church and Mosque: Religious Architecture in Venice and Istanbul (1999 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the works of architects Palladio and Sinan. Contemporaries living in rival cities, the two are often credited as the fathers of two very different types of architecture - Western and Islamic. Looks...

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Design 1 (2007)

Subject

Design; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £25.99

The DVD features the 6 26-minute programmes in a series that places the art of design in its sociological and technological context. The programmes tell the story of the 20th century through six industrial...

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A History of Experimental Film & Video

Date

15 Feb 2012, 14:17

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Review

A History of Experimental Film & Video - 2nd edition, by A.L. Rees (BFI Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 208 pages, ISBN: 978-1844574360 (paperback), Price £18.99 About the Author: Dr Felicity J Colman is...

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Media Screen Round-up, August - September 2016

Date

12 Oct 2016, 11:21

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. This month's selection features two...

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Science is Fiction/ The Sounds of Science (2007)

Director

Jean Painlevé

Subject

Biology; Film studies; Music; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £24.99

Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé, Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In...

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