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Welcome to the Spiv Economy (1986)

Subject

Economics; Film studies; Media studies

Made during the industrial decline and rising unemployment of the 1980s, this documentary is a study of the burgeoning numbers of people in casual and temporary jobs, which indicates that the ‘gig’ or...

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Jurisprudence of Collective Justice (3 Parts) (2015)

Subject

Law

Podcasts from the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. Professor Ernest Weinrib - Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law, University of Toronto delivered the lectures on 4th, 6th and 12th November 2014. Part 1:...

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Big Flame, The (1969 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 85 min.

Traces the progress of a strike in Loverpool’s docks following the Devlin Report, which advocated the abolition of casual labour. The workers take over Liverpool docks. The central figure is a...

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Smack - A Night in (2002)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) hire £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

A hard-hitting documentary account of the real-life consequences of heroin addiction in areas of inner-city Portsmouth. The video maps the pathways from casual multi-drug use - alcohol and cannabis - to the...

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Not This Time (2000 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2001 sale: £5.00 (inclusive)

Story of the campaign by the friends and family of Simon Jones to bring to justice those responsible for his death in the face of a systematic government cover-up of the human cost of casualisation. Simon...

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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943 Film, Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Maya Deren re-interprets and elaborates an apparently simple, casual incident into a critical emotional experience, creating an interior world of resonance, of meshes and rhythms, a dream time where beauty...

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Thread of the Needle (1982 Video)

aka: Thread of a Needle

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £24.00

Young men leave their rural Greek village in Epirus to find work, learn a trade or serve in the army while a young woman may leave her father’s house only to enter her husband’s. The unmarried girls...

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Animals Film, The (2007)

Director

Victor Schonfeld

Producer

Victor Schonfeld

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 136 minutes), £15.98

The seminal animal rights film released on DVD. It is a survey of the injustices committed against animals in western society, from the casual mistreatment of household pets to the systematic abuse of...

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God’s Own Country (2018)

Director

Francis Lee

Subject

Agriculture; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £5.09

Johnny works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. But when a...

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Essay on Camera Work, An (1998 Video)

Director

Kwame Braun

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., 1999 sale: US$220.00 (+p&p) PAL version

As a tool for cross-cultural research and representation, video has many advantages over other, older technologies of documentation. It also compounds many of the ethical dilemmas confronting the...

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