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Loot (1970 Film, Video)

Director
Silvio Narizzano

Producer
Arthur Lewis

Subject
Drama

Distribution
Film (16mm)

A frantic black farce adapted by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson from Joe Orton’s stage play. Set in England, a crook hides his mother’s body and uses the coffin to carry the proceeds of a robbery.
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Victorian Ways of Death (1987 Video)

Producer
Nick Levinson

Subject
Sociology

Distribution
Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Visits cemeteries in Manchester, London and the Buckinghamshire countryside, to point out the evidence they provide of Victorian attitudes to death and burial. An examination of memorials, including some in...
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Meet the Ancestors (1998 Video)

Producer
Ian Potts

Subject
Archaeology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 30 min., 1997 sale: £29.00 (inclusive)

Series in which archaeology sheds light on history by unearthing secrets of the past. 1: In the winter of 1996-97 potholers in the Yorkshire Dales stumbled upon the 3500-year-old remains of human burials as...
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1991)

Subject
English language and literature; History

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £14.99

The discovery of Melpham Idol, a pagan phallic figure, in the coffin of a disinterred Bishop becomes the most important archaeological find of the century, a discovery that changes the course of scholarship...
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Influence of Joyce’s Writing on Iain Sinclair’s Own Style of Urban Narrative (2016)

Subject
Literature

Recording of the John Coffin Memorial Reading, which took place at the Institute of English Studies on June 16, 2016. Writer Iain Sinclair discusses the influence of Joyce’s writing on his own style of...
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Rachel (2003)

Subject
Religious studies

Distribution
DVD (Region 0 PAL, 15 minutes), £2.50 (streaming rental); £20 (download); £30 (DVD)

In a world where couples often come from different cultural backgrounds, the traditional rites of passage that once brought families and communities together may now bring bitter conflict. RACHEL is a short...
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Casting by (2013)

Director
Tom Donahue

Subject
Film studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 89 minutes), $24.95

This documentary looks at the role the casting director has played in the history of cinema, with a particular focus on Hollywood. Pioneers like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster were iconoclasts who...
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Jacques Cousteau Odyssey (2006)

Subject
Archaeology

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 624 minutes), £29.99

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was television’s most celebrated maker and presenter of documentaries about the underwater world. Setting the standard for such programmes for decades to come, he had a profound...
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