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Battleship Potemkin (1925 Video)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. sd (music only). b&w. 70 min.

Feature film reconstructing the events which took place in the town of Odessa during the Social Democratic movement of 1905-1907.

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Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts (2016)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 264 minutes), £29.99

Avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson. The plot revolves, loosely, around Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb. Originally premiered in 1976, this...

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Charm of Dynamite, The (1968 Film)

Producer

Barrie Gavin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Abel Gance as a pioneer of cinema technique ranks with Griffith and Eisenstein. He invented, long before they became widely adopted, such innovations as mobile hand-held cameras, large or multiple/variable...

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Media Screen Roundup - October 2014

Date

13 Nov 2014, 10:29

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. There is a definite widespread...

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Decline of Tsarism, The (1988 Video)

Producer

Ian Thompson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Uses a variety of sources including a series of early colour photographs commissioned for Nicholas II and a painting by Il’ya Repin entitled ‘Religious Procession in the Kirsk Gubernia’, to show how...

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Movie Lover’s Guide to Film Language, A (2005)

Subject

FE; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £19.99

A general introduction to film language and five "lessons" covering the major elements of cinematic language: LIGHTING, CAMERA, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND and EDITING. For each of these lessons there is a short...

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Film / Notfilm (2017)

aka: Film: A Film by Samuel Beckett / Notfilm: A Kino Essay by Ross Lipman

Director

Ross Lipman; Alan Schneider

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 152 minutes), £19.99

FILM (Alan Schneider,1965, 22 mins) is the Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay, starring Buster Keaton. In his extensive Kino-Essay, NOTFILM (2015, 129 mins), Ross Lipman explores the...

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Science is Fiction/ The Sounds of Science (2007)

Director

Jean Painlevé

Subject

Biology; Film studies; Music; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £24.99

Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé, Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In...

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Labor Union Films (2011)

Subject

History; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $14.99

A 2-DVD set comprising 15 short films made between 1917 and 1951 dealing with US labour history and America’s struggle to ensure a decent life for all its citizens. Contents: 17 DAYS: THE STORY OF...

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Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The (2006)

Director

Sophie Fiennes

Subject

Film Studies; Media studies; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 150 minutes), £21.99

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on a ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, who...

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