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  1. 1900 (2007)

    aka: Novecento

    Director
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Italian studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 326 minutes), £15.99

    Bertolucci’s epic film of the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century. It chronicles the lives of two men born on the same day in 1900. Depardieu plays the bastard...

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  2. Francesco’s Shakespeare (2006)

    aka: Shakespeare in Italy

    Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....

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  3. Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western

    Date
    27 Oct 2015, 12:48
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western by Austin Fisher (IB Tauris, reprint edition, 2014), 320 pages, ISBN: 978-1780767116 (paperback), £17.99 About the Reviewer: Dr Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme...

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  4. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture

    Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

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  5. Leopard, The (2004)

    Subject
    History; Italian studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99 (sale)

    A restored, original version of Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, set in 1860-62 during the period of Italian unification. It tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family...

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  6. Francesco’s Venice (2006)

    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

    Documentary series telling the story of the birth of Venice. How a city of palaces, gold and jewels, art and treasures arose out of the swamp of a malaria-ridden lagoon. Presented by Francesco da Mosto.

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  7. Civilisation (13 Parts) (1969)

    Subject
    History; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £49.99 (DD) £25.99 (BBC)

    Sir Kenneth Clark’s personal view of the development of Western civilisation, concentrating on crucial episodes in France, Germany, England, Italy and America. Against the historical background are the men...

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  8. Leonardo/The Divine Michelangelo (2004)

    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

    A 3-part BBC series on the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci combined on one DVD with a two-part docudrama on the life of Michelangelo.

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