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Energy Alternative, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £19.99 (+VAT +p&p)

Video-based pack looking at energy from the standpoint of a need for change. Begins with some predictions of future world energy consumption and their impossible consequences and goes on to explore...

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Recent additions to the Gateway

Date

17 Aug 2012, 11:30

Author

Andrew Ormsby

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The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes nearly 1,200 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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Gypsies: A People Apart (1982 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

One group of Rom Gypsies who live near San Francisco, California, maintain the boundary between themselves and non-gypsies with whom they have contact. One practical way of maintaining separateness is to use...

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Anthony Giddens: Capitalism and Social Modern Theory

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 34 minutes), £39.00

Sociology began as an attempt to make sense of the great transformation from traditional to modern society; the development of industrial production, the mass movement of people from the land to the towns...

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Disabled Lives (1995 Video)

Producer

Tim Lambert

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series on what it means to be disabled, marking the end of the UN Decade of Disabled persons.

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Web Story, The (3 Parts) (1998 Video)

aka: Webstory.com, The

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 29 min., 2001 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Series exploring the birth, development and future of the World Wide Web, asking what it holds for its users. 1: In 1999 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, which has opened up a vast array of...

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Savage Planet (2000 Video)

Director

Kate Coombes; Emma Hawley; Chris Malone

Producer

Liz McLeod

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 186 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

Series in eight parts about natural phenomena and catastrophic events: 1) Star Wounds: meteorites and the possibilities of a meteorite collision; 2) White Terror: avalanches; 3) Dangerous Waters: volcanic...

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Face Values. Part 4: Everything in Its Place (1978 Film)

Director

David Cordingley

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2006)

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 62 minutes), $250.00

Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, CLASS DISMISSED navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television’s beginnings to today’s sitcoms, reality...

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Horizon: Fix Me (2009)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

After years in the wilderness, stem cell research is back. Horizon follows three young people with currently untreatable conditions as they search for a miracle cure. Sophie, paralysed from the waist down...

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