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  1. Day Today, The (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 186 minutes), £19.99

    A satire by Steve Coogan on the conventions of British news broadcasting and the artificiality of presentation to which we have become inured. Includes ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively...

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  2. Media Screen Roundup - August 2013

    Date
    12 Sep 2013, 11:25
    Author
    Linda
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This month’s Roundup includes a...

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  3. Culture Jammers Video

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 20 minutes), $15.00

    A collection of anti-consumerist subvertisments and uncommercials

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  4. Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

    Director
    Rene Vienet
    Subject
    Film studies; Philosophy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 95 minutes), $14.99

    "Directed" by the French situationist Rene Vienet, this film is an exercise in intellectual absurdity: A Hong Kong martial arts movie overdubbed with French political diatribes and philosophies which is...

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  5. Will Self (1994 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Will Self in a conversation with literary critic Elizabeth Young discusses his work in the light of satire and considers the role of the satirist.

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  6. Gulliver’s Travels (2002)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 206 minutes), £9.99

    A star-studded television dramatisation of the satire by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Simon Moore. DVD extras include ‘The making of ...'

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  7. Ubu Roi (1977)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £200.00

    This programme explains how the anarchic political parody by Alfred Jarry employs many non-realistic theatrical conventions and exemplifies modern, expressionistic drama. It includes a condensed version of...

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  8. Edo Stage, The: Kabuki and Bunraku (1970 Film)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm, 29 minutes)

    Explains the elements of Kabuki theatre and shows part of a traditional social satire in which a rich man is ‘brought down a peg’ by a commoner. The Bunruku sequence uses elaborate nearly life-size...

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  9. Power of the Political Cartoon, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government

    Video recording of a discussion between political cartoonist Martin Rowson and Willl Self on the history of political satire. Held at the RSA in October 2008. (30 minutes)

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  10. Dryden’s ‘Macflecknoe’: An Appreciation (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette.

    Professor Brooks considers the origin of the satire and the choice of Flecknoe for the attack upon Shadwell. He then examines the central concept of the poem, its special qualities as a specimen of the...

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