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Joy of Sex Education, The (2009)

Director

David Rosler

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £17.75

A collection of British sex education films. From the euphemistic to the explicit, the anthology takes the viewer through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. Films included are:...

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Top Billing (1991 Television)

Series

Tales from the Crypt

Director

Todd Holland

Anthology horror series based on the EC comic books published by William Gaines in the 1950s. In this episode an out-of-luck actor (Lovitz), who doesn’t have ‘the look’, auditions for Hamlet to find...

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The Use and Abuse of Cinema

Date

24 Aug 2016, 10:01

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present by Eric Rentschler (Columbia University Press, 2015), 464 pages, ISBN: 978-0231073639 (paperback), £24.00. About the...

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Dylan Thomas: The War Films Anthology (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 106 minutes), £15.99

The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...

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Fluxus: Fluxfilm Anthology (2002)

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL SECAM, 120 minutes), £19.99 (Moviemail) 29 Euros

Starting in the early sixties, Fluxus followed in the footsteps of the Futurist and Dada avant-gardes, going against the established grain of Fine Art and Official Art. Fluxus’ interdisciplinary aesthetic...

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Birds and the Bees, The (2011)

aka: Joy of Sex Education, The

Subject

Health Education; History; Media studies; Medical sciences; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 338 minutes), £19.99

From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology of 16 films takes us through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. All ‘unmentionable...

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Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers. Vols. 1 & 2 (1896)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes), £19.99

A total of 59 films from the pre-1919 era of cinema. Volume 1 has a collection of 13 shorts by the Lumiere brothers. With accompanying music and commentary. Tinted. Volume 2 has a large selection from...

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Frighteners, The (2017)

Director

Gareth Davies; Mike Hodges

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £13.00

Television drama. This release consists of all 13 episodes of London Weekend Television’s 1972 anthology of half-hour psychological horror films. The release is the first in a range of DVDs presented by...

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Culloden; The War Game (2016)

Director

Peter Watkins

Producer

Peter Watkins

Subject

History; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes + 46 minutes), £19.99

This edition contains newly remastered HD versions of Peter Watkins’ controversial films originally broadcast by the BBC. CULLODEN (1964) reconstructs the famous battle in the style of contemporary...

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Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (2011)

Director

Alan Clarke; Edward Bennett; Jane Howell; Mike Newell

Subject

Drama; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £14.40

This anthology brings together the four films written by David Leland and screened originally in 1983 - the films are: BIRTH OF A NATION, FLYING INTO THE WIND, R.H.I.N.O. and MADE IN BRITAIN, all of which...

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