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Nameless Star, A (2003)

aka: Bezymyannaya Zvezda

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 130 minutes), $25.00

Based on the 1943 stage play, "Steaua Fara Nume" by Romanian Jewish writer Iosef Hechter, writing under the pen name Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). This version was made for television in 1978, but there was...

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Media Screen Roundup - September 2013

Date

21 Oct 2013, 11:34

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Last month’s Roundup featured a...

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Sweet Charity (1969)

Director

Bob Fosse

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £5.00

A dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, is a woman whose faith in the virtues of old-fashioned romance is knocked by a string of disastrous romances. Robbed of her earnings by her absconding boyfriend,...

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Lost Centuries, The (8 Parts) (1968)

Subject

Archaeology; History

An 8-part television series made in 1968 looking at post-Roman Britain from the rise of Christianity and the influence of the later Islamic empires though to the beginning of the Renaissance. The series also...

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Ray of Hope (1984 Video)

Producer

John Cross

Subject

Information technology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the users of lasers in telecommunications and medicine and their possible use in America’s ‘Star Wars’ programme. In medicine lasers are used in delicate eye operations and in general surgery...

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Sky at Night Series, The (2004)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml

Monthly astronomy programmes from the BBC SKY AT NIGHT series, presented by Patrick Moore, are available for free viewing online. The archive contains programmes broadcast since December 2001 and new...

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Century of the City Box Set (2011)

Director

Marije Meerman; Bregtje van der Haak; Rob Schröder

Subject

Architecture; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 205 minutes), 25.95 euros

The four DVDs in this box set are part of the cross-media festival Centuries of the City that the VPRO held in association with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in September/October 2009 on...

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Date

10 Aug 2015, 09:07

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 2010. 92 minutes + extras. Price £22.99 About the reviewer: Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the School of Arts and Media,...

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Black Girl/Borom Sarret

Date

14 Sep 2016, 13:16

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Black Girl/Borom Sarret 2015. GB. DVD. BFI. 80 mins. £19.99. About the Reviewer: David Murphy is Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of...

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Herding Elephants – Radio and the British Library

Date

23 Jul 2013, 14:17

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Paul Wilson, curator of radio at the British Library, provides a tour of the national radio archive and explains its ambitions for the radio archive of the future. About the author: Paul Wilson has worked...

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