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Great Expectations (1979 Film)

Producer

Yvonne Deutschman; John Radcliffe

Subject

Education

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Suggests that many teachers find some West Indian pupils difficult to motivate, especially from the age of 12-13. Analyses the particular sources of West Indian alienation from school and shows how some...

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K is for Karl: Communism (2018)

aka: Communism (Episode 2)

Director

Theopi Skarlatos

Subject

Philosophy

A series of five short films on the ideas of Karl Marx to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth. In the second film of the series Paul Mason visits the places and influences around London which...

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K is for Karl: Revolution (2018)

aka: Revolution (Episode 3)

Director

Theopi Skarlatos

Subject

Philosophy

A series of five short films on the ideas of Karl Marx to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth. In the third episode of the series, Paul Mason travels to Paris, where Marx arrived on 8 March 1848...

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Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Keith Howell presents this week’s edition of Our Kind of Town. In the first part University of Bristol lecturer, Kenneth Hudson, talks about his new book, Where We Used to Work and what he discovered about...

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I for India (2005)

Director

Sandhya Suri

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did was buy two Super-8 cameras, one of which he sent home to his family in India. For the next 40 years, the family exchanged...

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Sam Taylor-Wood (2004)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

Many of Sam Taylor-Wood’s distinctive photographs and films depict an affluent and fashionable social scene. But her concerns are often isolation and anxiety, conflict and alienation. She uses multiple...

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Art we Deserve, The (1979)

Director

Jeremy Marre

Subject

Art; Social Studies

The ART WE DESERVE is an film essay by Richard Cork about the gulf between minority art and mass culture. Examining the public’s preference for bland mass reproduction pictures which are traditional in...

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Dread, Beat an’ Blood (1980)

aka: Dread, Beat and Blood

Director

Franco Rosso

Producer

Franco Rosso

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (45 minutes), £50.00

Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...

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Jubilee (1978 Film)

Director

Derek Jarman

Producer

Howard Malin; James Whaley

Independent feature film. A visceral, punk fantasy made in the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s silver jubilee, and solo directorial debut for Derek Jarman. Anxious to gain knowledge, Queen Elizabeth I has her...

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Glasgow by the Way (4 Parts) (1988 Video)

Director

Derek Tammes

Producer

Seona Roberts

Subject

History

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min.

Part 1: Shots of present-day Glasgow are intercut with stills and newsreels from the 1930s and 1940s. The first programme in the series deals with the slogan, ‘Glasgow’s Miles Better’, itself, the...

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