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  1. Human Desire (1954)

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    Adapted from the same Emile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in La BETE HUMAINE (1938), Lang’s startlingly dark, late film noir reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria...

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  2. Backdoor Broadcasting

    Date
    12 Aug 2013, 10:54
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    The aim of Backdoor Broadcasting is to aid the dissemination of new knowledge produced on audio by universities and learned societies. Dr René Wolf provides a profile of his company’s activities. About...

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  3. F for Fake (1973 Video)

    Director
    Orson Welles
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 88 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Orson Welles’ quizzical homage to forgery and illusion - a journey through trickery, magic and deception which includes portrats of art forger Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving, author of a hoax Howard...

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  4. D-Day Remembered

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 80 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

    Recollections of 39, mainly British, veterans of the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes details of planning, preparation and deception, the airborne landings, and the sea-borne invasion of Gold, Juno...

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  5. Art of Deception, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Barlow; Chris Haws
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at military camouflage, showing methods of rendering men and machinery invisible to the enemy. Currently of interest because of the United States’ B2 STEALTH bomber, reported to be nearly undetctable...

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  6. Wmd: Weapons of Mass Deception (2006)

    Director
    Daniel Schechter
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £14.99

    A damning expose of American media bias during the Iraq war, in which the filmmakers criticise Pentagon propaganda and media complicity, interview many insiders and unearth exclusive material to make their...

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  7. Fastest Claw in the West, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Keenan Smart
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Documentary on the mantis shrimp, an inhabitant of the coral beaches of Hawaii, whose predatory strike is one of the fastest animal movements known. Looks at the work of Dr Roy Caldwell in Hawaii and...

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  8. Liar (1995 Video)

    Director
    Greg Lanning
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the phenomenon of lying and looks at the modern computer-based polygraph, or lie detector, which is claimed to have a 98% accuracy rate and may soon be used in law courts world-wide. But some...

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  9. Speckle and Hide (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Hugh Miles
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A film about visual deception - the way camouflage is used by predators to conceal themselves from prey, and by prey from preditors. With cunning and with camouflage, by colour or design, shape or posture,...

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  10. America in the Fifties: Selling the American Way (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Looks at how television was used in the 1950s to sell consumer dreams and political deception in the USA. Rosser Reeves devised advertisements for cigarettes, headache remedies and presidents; Richard Nixon...

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