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What a Piece of Work is Man: The Seven Great Tragedies of Shakespeare (2005 Audio)

Series

Portable Professor

Harold Bloom lectures on Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra and Othello.

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Blood Wedding (1981)

aka: Bodas de Sangre

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), €6.00

Spanish language version by Carlos Saura of Lorca’s play in which a flamenco version of the text is being presented. NB This title is not currently available in the UK. It can be purchased in America (on...

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From Dust

Director

Dhruv Dhawan

Subject

Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $15.99

Filmed in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, FROM DUST follows two survivors and an aid worker, who face a new Sri Lankan law restricting the rebuilding of homes. This sensitive and hard-hitting documentary asks why a...

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Truth in Advertising (2001)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 14 minutes), $29.95

A comic expose of how the real advertising world works from the inside, confronting all the frustrations the world of advertising has to offer and showing what really happend at ‘creative’ meetings....

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Robert Browning: Poems (1999)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette), $16.95

The poems are read by Douglas Hodge, David Horovitch, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam, Diana Quick, Punella Scales and Sian Thomas. Readings are interspersed with a running narrative of the poet’s life. Poems...

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Top Billing (1991 Television)

Series

Tales from the Crypt

Director

Todd Holland

Anthology horror series based on the EC comic books published by William Gaines in the 1950s. In this episode an out-of-luck actor (Lovitz), who doesn’t have ‘the look’, auditions for Hamlet to find...

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Crime Scene Investigation and Fingerprinting (2008)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 33 minutes), $14.95

Historic DVD on crime investigation produced by the United States Information Service. A training film that demonstrates and illustrates methods of collecting, classifying and preserving fingerprints by use...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939 Film)

aka: Huckleberry Finn

Director

Richard Thorpe (2)

Producer

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...

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Romeo et Juliette (1997 Television, Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Yves-André Hubert

Gounod’s opera directed by Yves-André Hubert with Neil Shicoff and Barbara Hendricks in the title roles.

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Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden (1999)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 60 minutes), $19.95 (CD)

A collection of recordings made over many years. The sometimes indistinct words in this rare audio collection are accompanied by text for each of the 23 selections. The booklet also includes a substantial...

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