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Gillian Lynne

Date released

1969

Series name

The Pacemakers

Issue no

2

NoS ID

327138

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Gillian Lynne is a choreographer, she designs movements to music. Trained in classical ballet, she became a star of the prestigious Royal Ballet, but felt that the disciplines of classical...

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Australian Feature Films (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

A database of Australian feature films, with detailed information on more than 1100 films, together with hundreds of photographs, 25 short film clips, detailed background information on six topics: early...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1923 Film)

Series

Gems of Literature

Director

Edwin J. Collins

Producer

Edward Godal

Condensed version of The Taming of the Shrew concentrating on the wooing and winning of Katharina by Petruchio. Ball (op cit. p. 286) is underwhelmed by the film finding the camera stationary, the acting too...

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Revenger’s Tragedy (2003)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

A feature film adaptation of Middleton’s 1607 play set in a post-apocalyptic Liverpool.

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Silent Waters (2006)

Director

Sabiha Sumar

Subject

Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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Family Life (2002)

Subject

Media studies; Mental Health and Counselling; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 103 minutes), £12.99

A harrowing drama-documentary account of a teenage girl descending into schizophrenia. The film is an attack on contemporary psychiatric practices and the coldness of middle-class life in Britain.

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Teaching Trailers 5 (2007)

Subject

Film Studies; Media studies

Distribution

DVD (DVD-ROM), free

A compilation of 16 trailers for films released in 2007. Intended to help GCSE students of Media or Film Studies to consider issues of audience, narrative image and the film promotion process in general.

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Cloud-Capped Star, The (2002)

aka: Meghe Dhaka Tara

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132), £19.99

A dark melodrama set in late fifties Calcutta ;about a refugee family and the struggle of Nita, the oldest daughter, to keep the afloat and together. It is a bitter critique of the family as an institution...

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Lola MontÈs (1955 Video)

Director

Max Ophüls

Producer

Albert Caraco

Subject

Film studies; French studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

A new version of the acclaimed French feature film restored and remastered by the Cinematheque Francaise with Max Ophuls’ approval. The tragic life of a famous courtesan and her romance with the King of...

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Hollywood Librarian, The: a Look at Librarians Through Film (2009)

Director

Ann Seidl

Producer

Ann Seidl

Subject

Film studies; Librarianship

Distribution

DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $275.00

A blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, the film reveals the history and realities of librarianship as depicted in American movies. Interviews with actual librarians, intercut with...

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