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  1. America in the Fifties: The Beat (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...

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  2. British Poets: The Spoken Word (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 210 minutes), £19.95

    From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Hughes, this three CD compilation offers a survey of some of the greatest British poets of a century and more. 30 poets are included, each reading from their own work, often...

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  3. Portraits in Black (1986)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $39.95 ($79.95 institutional use)

    A collection of three award-winning films. This compilation is designed to increase awareness of how black writers, artists and freedom fighters contributed to the American cultural tradition. PAUL LAURENCE...

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  4. Britten: War Requiem (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

    2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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  5. In the Steps of D.H. Lawrence: An Exile in Creativity (2015)

    Director
    Garry Shead
    Subject
    Art; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 31 minutes), £95.00 (University licence)

    This documentary by Garry Shead is a creative journey in the footsteps of the English novelist and poet, exploring his life and work with expert commentary and rich illustration of archival footages of WWI...

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  6. What’s So Great About Proust? (2010)

    Subject
    French studies; Literature

    Published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, in so far as it deals explicitly with a disappearing world in ways often felt to be incorrigibly nostalgic,...

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  7. Emily Dickinson (2004)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £13.74

    By any standards a remarkable poet, the fact that she lived in an age when poets were supposed to be men and any ideas contrary to the norm were outrages in the eyes of society, Emily Dickinson’s work is...

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  8. Ted Hughes Dreamtime (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £9.99

    Ted Hughes was one of the major poets of his generation. His older brother Gerald Hughes wrote a memoir of their relationship called ‘Ted and I’. The two brothers were close all their lives. This DVD is...

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  9. Turner and Venice (2003)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £17.99

    Venice is the subject that dominates the later paintings and watercolours of J.M.W Turner. Filmed in Italy and London, and produced alongside Tate’s major 2003-4 exhibition, this film explores all aspects...

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  10. Pendle Witch Child, The

    Director
    Ros Ereira
    Subject
    History

    Poet Simon Armitage presents this programme about the Lancashire witches, which focuses on how the testimony of Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle, convicted her own mother, brother, sister and many of...

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