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It’s A Computer World: Computer Policeman

Date released

1980

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

257

NoS ID

326040

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: The microchip is changing the face of industry. But the microchip is also enriching our society - helping to move traffic smoothly through our towns, to explore new areas of design and to guide...

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Fall and Roll (2000 Video)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at developments in Britain’s computer games industry, focusing on development of artificial intelligence in programming and the attempt to encode the laws of physics into character movement. Features...

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Shakespeare Works! (2006 Multimedia)

Multimedia pack comprising a 45-minute film, an interactive presentation with 2 levels of ability, 6 multiple choice quizzes, 6 computer games, and a Teaching Shakespeare Online resource which helps develop...

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Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010)

Director

Jason Scott

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 121 minutes), $40.00

The first games on home computers had limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power. They were called "computer adventure games", and they used the most powerful graphics processor in...

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Making of ‘Inferno’, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Looks at the creative process behind Ocean Software’s computer game ‘Inferno’, following each stage of development from conception to the creation of the creatures who inhabit the virtual world within...

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Gfto: A Film About Women in Gaming (2015)

Director

Sue Sun-Higginson

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 72 minutes), $295.00

Young women are playing games in equal numbers to men, so why is this 20 billion dollar industry plagued with discrimination and misogyny? Through interviews with video game developers, academics and...

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Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture (2011)

Director

Roger Stahl

Subject

Media studies; Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 45 minutes), $250.00

Video games like Modern Warfare, America’s Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The...

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Money Programme, The: Microsoft’s Big Games Gamble and Coke on the Rocks? (2006)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

Two programmes from the popular BBC 2 series. In MICROSOFT’S BIG GAMES GAMBLE we follow the launch of the new Xbox 360 as Microsoft attempts to take on Sony’s new Play Station for control of the...

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Sermiligaag 65°54’n, 36°22’w (2008)

Director

Anni Seitz

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few...

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Virtual Me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft (2013)

Director

Trent Monahan; Sarah Prothero; Jennifer Torson

Subject

Anthropology; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 11 minutes), £20.00

VIRTUAL ME examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within their virtual...

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