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Victorian Yellowback Books (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

Crafts

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. col., 2000 sale: £32.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Illustrates the development of the famous series of Victorian ‘yellowback’ books popular on railway bookstalls in the 1850s and 1860s, which, technically, were an important new artistic venture at the...

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Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

Director

Jean Hellwig

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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Nollywood Babylon (2010)

Director

Ben Addelman; Samir Mallal

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 74 minutes), $ Canadian 59.95

Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, is the third largest in the world—an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa....

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Cultures of the Walkman (1997)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Explores the culture of Sony, one of the largest entertainment corporations in the world and developer of the Walkman. Focuses on developments in design, marketing and production at Sony; explores ways in...

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Running Down the Mountain (1992 Video)

Director

Maggie Millman

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Discusses elitism in art, with contributions from composer Harrison Birtwistle, novelist Iain Sinclair, and artist Sonia Boyce. Patrick Wright traces the emergence of a new 1980s’ culture which equates...

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Representation and the Media (1997 Video)

Director

Sut Jhally

Producer

Sut Jhally

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £40.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

An illustrated lecture by Professor Stuart Hall of the Open University on the on the concept of representation, explaining many of the central ideas in cultural studies, including the centrality of culture...

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Pieter Bruegel and Popular Culture (1990 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Art

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: ‘The Gloomy Day’, ‘The Return of the Herd’, ‘The Hunters in the Snow’, ‘The Battle between Carnival and Lent’, ‘The Peasant Wedding’ and...

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Teenage Consumer, The (1990 Multimedia)

Subject

Design

Distribution

out of distribution, 36 slides. col.

Images from advertising, pop music, magazines and films directed at the 1950s British teenager.

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Canada, Shakespeare, Pop Culture (2007 Multimedia)

A short documentary film looking at the many ways Shakespeare is used in popular Canadian television and movies. The video uses archival footage housed on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project...

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Dj Lord (2004)

Subject

FE; Music

Distribution

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

DJ Lord provides an insight into the world of turbtablism. He is shown ‘backjuggling’ and scratching at DJ competitions and talking about his personal DJ tips. He is shown at parties in Australia and...

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