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  1. Macho (2000 Video)

    Director
    Lucinda Broadbent
    Producer
    Lucinda Broadbent
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £?

    Against a background of domestic violence and sexual abuse in Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan group Men Against Violence are inventing new ways to confront machismo and male violence. Their success is such that...

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  2. Shinjuku Boys (1995 Film, Video)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto; Jano Williams
    Producer
    Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Sociology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows the lives of three hosts in the ‘New Marilyn’ nightclub in Tokyo, where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. Although young heterosexual women who visit the club often have...

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  3. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Maya Deren re-interprets and elaborates an apparently simple, casual incident into a critical emotional experience, creating an interior world of resonance, of meshes and rhythms, a dream time where beauty...

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  4. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Maya Deren weaves together her interest in dance with the exploration of myth and symbol. Dance becomes a metaphor for courtship and sexual union from which ‘the widow’ flees at the end of the film,...

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  5. Fireraiser (1987 Film, Video)

    Director
    Trudi Davies; Claire Hunt
    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A drama-documentary based on a play by Albert Hunt which explores the role played by Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris in the history of bombing. Intercuts drama, documentary and archive footage to illustrate the...

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  6. Hidden Faces (1996 Film, Video)

    Director
    Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...

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  7. As is Your Due (1999 Video)

    Director
    Lucy Thane
    Subject
    Education; History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 2000 sale: £20.00 (inclusive)

    Follows the history of degrees for women at the University of Cambridge. Despite the fact that there have been two women’s colleges there since the 1860s, women were not considered to be official members...

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  8. Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joanne Grant
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using the life of Ella Baker as a connecting thread, traces the history of the US civil rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Ella Baker’s political career was intertwined with most of the events of...

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  9. Dream Girls (1993 Video)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto; Jano Williams
    Subject
    Drama; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale (video), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Discusses the popularity of the transvestite theatre of the famous Takaruzuka Music School in Japan - the Takarazuka Revue, an enormously successful spectacular where an all-woman cast create fantasies of...

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  10. Divorce Iranian Style (1999)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Anthropology; Law; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £12.99 (retail, Secondrun)

    Observes some of the cases brought before the Family Law Courts in Tehran. The three main characters are Jamileh, who punishes her husband for beating her; Ziba, a 16-year-old girl who is trying to get a...

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