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  1. Narrative Structures (2002)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Explores the necessary ingredients in writing narrative fiction through on-screen examples. Each step of the process is demonstrated by actors in scenes, highlighting topics like character arc, setting, and...

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  2. Sfx in the Cinema (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2001 sale: £16.50 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A video-based teaching pack that uses interviews, film clips and special effects to explore the techniques and visionary impulses in the creation of special effects in science fiction and fantasy films.

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  3. Who’s out There? (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale (video - CCK), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min.

    Orson Welles is the host and star of this film. Concerns the theory, expressed by a number of scientists, that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. From the monstrous Mars life forms of his...

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  4. Real Shorts (2006)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £49.95

    A pack consisting of teaching guide and DVD compilation of short documentary and non-fiction films selected to help in teaching students from year 7 upwards to grasp the difference between fiction and...

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  5. Angela Carter with Adam Mars Jones (1985)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Adam Mars Jones discusses with Angela Carter her novel ‘Nights at the Circus’ and her views on fiction and fantasy. Angela Carter reads an extract from the novel.

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  6. Margaret Thatcher and Pornography

    Subject
    English language and literature; Politics & government

    This podcast explores why 1980s British fiction turned to pornography in order to explore Thatcherism’s contradictions, focusing on Martin Amis’ ‘Money: A Suicide Note’ (1984) and Alan...

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  7. Science Fiction Writers (2011)

    Subject
    Literature; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 79 minutes), £10.00

    This cd collects recordings of ten well-known science fiction authors from various BBC radio productions. Track listing: 1. Isaac Asimov. From ‘Outlook’. Date of broadcast: 02.01.1990; 2. Doris Lessing...

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  8. Metropolis (1926 Film, Video)

    Director
    Fritz Lang
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An expressionist science fiction feature film dealing with a city presided over by an elite ruling class, under a dictatorship and based on the slave labour of the workers toiling underground. Adapted from...

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  9. Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony (2014)

    Director
    Elizabeth Lennard
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 mins), $14.95

    Documentary. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of...

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  10. Out of the Unknown (2014)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1323 mins), £69.99

    A 7-disc box set of the classic anthology BBC science fiction series from 1965-1971. The series drew from writers of the calibre of Frederick Pohl, E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and John Wyndham....

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