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Put a Ring on It (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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How Did Shakespeare Sleep? (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 220

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Professor Sasha Handley (The University of Manchester), author of Sleep in Early Modern...

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Twelfth Night Celebrations Every January Including Music and Misrule (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 246

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Rachel Aanstad discusses the rituals of Twelfth Night in Elizabethan times and dicusses...

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Quiet Village in Vietnam, A (1992 Video)

aka: Douceur du Village, La

Director

Michel Régnier

Producer

Gilles Péloquin

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

Profile of a remote village in northern Vietnam, showing the ancient rituals and timeless gestures of a people who have endured war and poverty with great dignity.

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IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

aka: House of Life, The

Director

David Byrne

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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Lacey Rituals, The: Films by Bruce Lacey and Friends (2012)

Director

Bob Godfrey; Bruce Lacey; Richard Lester; Jeremy Deller; Nick Abrahams

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 365 minutes), £22.99

A two-disc collection which gathers together many of the films made by avant-garde artist and filmmaker Bruce Lacey. A prominent figure on the counter-cultural arts scene in Britain during the 1960s, Lacey...

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Carnival King of Europe Collection (2017)

aka: Carnival, King of Europe

Director

Michele Trentini; Giovanni Kezich

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 562 minutes), £200.00

Every winter ancient rituals are performed throughout Europe to secure prosperity and good harvests. These rituals are at the heart of what is known today as the Carnival celebrations. Led by anthropologist...

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Knights of the Round Table

Date released

11 Jan 1976

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2432

NoS ID

030761

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Knights of the Round Table. DESCRIPTION: The Court of King Arthur lives on at Tintagel in Cornwall. The Order of the Knights of the Round Table, basically a charitable organisation,...

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Ways of the Middle Kingdom (1971 Film)

Director

Hugh Gibb; Marjorie Topley

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A study of traditional Chinese religion and custom, presented in the form of rather short sequences from a wide range of domestic, monastic and communal rituals. Made in Hong Kong.

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America’s National Parks

Date released

9 Jan 1969

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

733

NoS ID

122063

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Come and see one of the seven wonders of the world - Niagara Falls - a sight you can see from a hotel bedroom. America is full of such surprises - Kennedy Airport, air-conditioned, civilised,...

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