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Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier (1997)

aka: Race: The Floating Signifier

Director

Sut Jhally

Producer

Sut Jhally

Subject

Philosophy; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 62 minutes), $195.00

Stuart Hall offers an accessible and clarifying analysis of the social construction of race and racial difference. He explores how variations in people’s appearances come to be mistaken for essential...

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Theatre Plans to ‘Decolonise’ Shakespeare’s Plays (2021 Television)

Extract from a Russia Today TV broadcast hosted by Bill Dod in which Former UKIP MEP Roger Helmer criticises Shakespeare’s Globe for starting a series of webinars on Decolonising Shakespeare (qv).

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Racism: A History (2007)

aka: Race Through Time

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 50 minutes), £585(series) £195 (each part)

A 3-part documentary series chronicling the shifts in the idea of ‘race’ and the history of racism in Europe, The Americas, Australasia and Asia. The films show how ideas of racial difference have...

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Staging Race (2023 Audio)

Series

Everyday Shakespeare

Producer

Jill Ruby

Podcast in which hosts Professor Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts) and Professor Caroline Bicks (University of Maine) discuss everyday issues through a Shakespearean lens. In...

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Brylcream’s Better Than Nothing (1997 Video)

Director

Karol Kamya

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

Tells the stories of a policewoman, an army officer and a social worker who were fostered and/or adopted with white or Asian families as children and discusses, through their vastly different experiences,...

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Material Witness: Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta Rap (199 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL available). col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £35.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

In a lecture Professor Michael Eric Dyson blends critical theory with an appreciation of popular culture, rap lyrics with classical poetry, and anecdotes of personal history with sweeping geopolitical...

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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128), £9.99

Film adaptation of David Guterson’s novel

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Handsworth Songs (1986)

Director

John Akomfrah

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, DVD (PAL, 59 minutes), £120.00

A film essay on the concepts of race and civil disorder in contemporary Britain. Filmed in Handsworth and London during the riots of 1985 and using extensive archive footage, the film attempts to examines...

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Caste in Half (1996 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (+p&p +VAT)

Explores the effects of denial in the children of mixed cultures. Children talk about culture, colour, race. The film was made by five women of different cultures.

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Director

Robert Mulligan

Producer

Alan Pakula

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99 (DVD); £17.99 (Blu-ray)

Feature film. Story of racial prejudice and injustice set in the American South. Gregory Peck plays the lawyer, widower and father of two children who stirs up hostility when he agrees to defend a black man...

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