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Rain (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £5.99

Film adaptation of the short story by Somerset Maugham about the prostitute Sadie Thompson.

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 118 minutes), £5.99

Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel featuring Robert De Niro as the creature.

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Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and the Mississippi: A Video Commentary (1988)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

Gives students background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee Schlesinger, Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Purchase....

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Nosferatu (Bfi) (1922 Video)

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

This version of the film was restored by Kevin Brownlow and features a score by James Bernard. Also included is a video essay by Sir Christopher Frayling.

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Dark Angel, The (1993)

aka: Uncle Silas

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 148 minutes), $4.99

An American television adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Victorian thriller, ‘Uncle Silas’. NB This title is currently only available in America (on NTSC video) and can thus only be purchased by...

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1993)

Subject

English language and literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £12.99

Francis Ford Coppola’s big budget, visually sumptious adaptation starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins.

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Romantic Spirit, The (2011)

Director

Daniel Lander

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Literature; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 420 minutes), $39.49

A fourteen-part documentary television series made in 1983 about the history of the Romantic movement in art,music and literature on 7 DVDs. Individual programmes are: BATTLE OF T HE STAGE- Plays of...

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Frankenstein (1931)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99

Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.

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Winter Journey, A (1976)

Director

Clive Gunnell

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £10.00

Clive Gunnell’s film depicts an incident in Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ during which Tess goes on a long walk through the Dorset countryside looking for her husband. The film...

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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1986)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), $39.00 ($89.00 institiutional use)

From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated...

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