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Myth and Music (1998 Video)

Subject

English language and literature; Music

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2004 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Uses a traditional Scottish myth to examine the interaction between myth and music and the ways in which a myth may be reworked, both by storytellers and by musicians.

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Media Screen Round-up March 2017

Date

19 Apr 2017, 10:40

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. A special issue of Cahiers...

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In Conversation with D M Thomas: The Novelist and the Therapist (1996 Video)

Subject

English language and literature; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £49.95 (inclusive) 1997 sale: £200.00 (inclusive) set of 5

D M Thomas, author of ‘The White Hotel’, talks to Michael Jacobs. The novel is about one of Freud’s patients and combines the themes of love and death. The book raises questions about the relationship...

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Tribute to the World of Myth, A: Ovid and Holkham Hall (2010)

Subject

Art; Classical studies

How do the themes of classical mythology come to be refashioned through the ages? Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, is the estate of an 18th century gentleman, Thomas Coke - a scholar of epic classical...

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Beyond the Add Myth: Classroom Strategies and Techniques (1996 Video)

Subject

Education; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 38 min., 2000 sale: US$89.00 (+p&p)

American educator and psychologist Thomas Armstrong and others present strategies for teaching children who are diaagnosed or misdiagnosed as suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD) - strategies that...

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Franco: Behind the Myth (1992 Video)

Producer

Anthony Geffen

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Jonathan Dimbleby probes behind the contrived public image of General Franco, who brutally ruled Spain for over 40 years. Includes contributions from Franco’s daughter Carmen, his confessor and key aides,...

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Bauhaus: Myth of the Modern (1998)

aka: Bauhaus: Model and Myth

Director

Kerstin Stutterheim; Niels Bolbrinker

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £145.00 (University rate)

This documentary tells the story of the Bauhaus school from its foundation by Walter Gropius in 1919, through its tumultuous history and far-reaching influence on 20th century art, design and architecture....

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Hirohito: Behind the Myth (1989 Video)

Producer

Anthony Geffen

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Journalist Edward Behr traces the life of Emperor Hirohito of Japan from a traumatic childhood to remote god-emperor and looks at how a skilled public relations operation turned one of the world’s most...

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Arafat: Behind the Myth (1990 Video)

Director

Anthony Geffen

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Marie Colvin of the ‘Sunday Times’ traces the life of Yassar Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, from childhood to life as a wealthy engineer in Kuwait, through his years of...

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Meteorite Impact (1993 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS (NTSC only). col. 84 min., 1999 sale: US$19.95 (+p&p)

Uses computer graphs and footage of meteorite craters around the world to discuss the science of meteors and meteorites and relate the legend and myth surrounding them.

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