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Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, The (1975 Film)

Director

Volker Schlöndorff; Margaretha von Trotta

Subject

Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film about a woman who becomes the target for police surveillance and exploitative news coverage after spending a night with a suspected terrorist. Based on the novel by Heinrich Böll.

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2005 Film)

Director

Samuel Park

Producer

Samuel Park; Emily Lundin; Aaron Belliston

Fiction short set in 1948. Sebastian is a student at Harvard with dreams of becoming a literary scholar. He’s from a rich and influential family and has become engaged to the perfect girl. His life has a...

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Spanish Chapel, The (1993 Video)

Producer

Amanda Willett

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The chapter house of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, now known as the Spanish Chapel, contains an extraordinary fresco cycle by Andrea Bonaiuti. Dr Joanna Cannon explains some of the complex theological...

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Romeo & Juliet Source Material (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 24

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode hosts Ian Doescher and Sara Plasskett look at the sources that Shakespeare used when writing Romeo and Juliet, including an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello, a poem by Arthur...

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Lady Macbeth (2017 Film)

Director

William Oldroyd

Producer

Fodhia Cronin O’Reilly

Feature film. An adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. A 19th century young bride is sold into marriage to a middle-aged man.

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Giulietta e Romeo (2019 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Concert

Director

Cecilia Ligorio

Production of Nicola Vaccai’s rarely-performed two-act opera from 1827 derived not from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet but from the same source, Luigi Da Porto’s novella written in the 1520s. In the...

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Femme Douce, Une (1969 Film)

aka: Gentle Creature

Director

Robert Bresson

Producer

Mag Bodard

Feature film. A man stands by the body of his wife, who has commited suicide by jumping from the balcony of their apartment. He recalls their life to Anna, their maid. Includes a scene at a stage...

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Silence de la Mer, La (1949)

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

The debut film of Jean-Pierre Melville, Le SILENCE DE LA MER is a landmark in French films about World War II, made shortly after Melville himself was demobilised from the Resistance and based on the novella...

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Out on a Limb: The Films of Caroline Leaf (1999 Video)

Director

Caroline Leaf

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 87 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of films by American animator Caroline Leaf. 1: (1974, 8 min). Based on an Inuit story, illustrates the folly of marrying a creature who is not of one’s own kind. Leaf worked with Inuit crew...

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Impact of Humanism in the Visual Arts, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min.

Examines the influence of humanism in painting, sculpture and architecture. In 9 sections: 1) Signs of Change: compares the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli in the chapel of the Medici Palace, Florence, with...

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