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Introducing the Gothic (2009)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £35.00

This combined DVD and text resource introduces aspects of the Gothic, in the context of key texts. Strategies for close focus and comparative work, critical and contextual material, plus a DVD of Professor...

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Gothic Cathedral (1998)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

Discusses the construction and design of Gothic Medieval Cathedrals. Most of our Cathedrals and Abbey Churches were built during the Middle Ages. In the years following the Norman Conquest a huge rebuilding...

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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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Gothic Cathedral, The: A Landmark in Engineering (1986 Video)

Director

Colin Grimshaw

Producer

Kathleen Burk; Denis Smith

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Compares the structure of the Gothic cathedral with earlier structures of Egypt, Greece and Rome, identifying the constituent elements and discussing the contribution made by each to the stability of the...

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Masque of Red Death, The (1964)

Director

Roger Corman

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.00

While the plague rages throughout Europe, sadistic Italian prince Prospero dallies with devil worship. To entertain his fellow Satanists, Prospero hosts a lavish ball in the confines of his castle, but the...

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Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloody-Mindedness: Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades (2014)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £339.00

Writer, broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Meades explores the story of the Brutalist movement across Europe. Meades looks for its precursors in the Baroque and Modern Gothic movements, and the martial...

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Four with Betjeman: Victorian Architects and Architecture (2011)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £6.99

Four part series narrated by the poet John Betjeman which looks at the work of influential Gothic architects in 1850s England. The buildings considered by Betjeman include the Houses of Parliament, the...

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High Gothic to Hi-Tech: A Short History of British Architecture (1997)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 27 minutes), £65.00

The architecture of our towns and cities can, at first sight, seem a bewildering jigsaw puzzle of different styles from different ages. This film explains the evolution and development of British...

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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Director

Arthur Lubin

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £15.94

Thriller about a murderous London businessman and the scheming housemaid who shares his dark secret. This is a rare example of British noir cinema and this release comes with valuable extras including...

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Hand of Adam, The (1975 Film)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the life and achievement of Robert Adam against an explortion of his most outstanding work. His visit at an early age to Rome and to the Emperor Diocletian’s palace at Split are shown through his...

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