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Genres - An Introduction (2001 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 2001 sale: £44.65 (inclusive)

Introduces basic genres and shows how genres provide contexts for characters in fiction and how they can be used as a critical concept in analysing film and music. Through vignettes, illustrates the various...

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Brig, The (1964 Film)

Director

Adolfas Mekas; Jonas Mekas

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A film of the stage production ‘The Brig’ by Kenneth H Brown at the Living Theatre, New York, directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck, depicting twenty-four hours in a marine brig in Japan.

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Friendship’s Death (1987)

Director

Peter Wollen

Subject

Film studies

A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...

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Nightfall (1957)

Director

Jacques Tourneur

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 79 minutes), £18.00

During his long and varied career, Jacques Tourneur tackled a breadth of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. With NIGHTFALLi, he returns to the noir genre. Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction...

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Chardin and the Still Life (1993 Video)

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Chardin became known as the master of the still life in 18th-century France. This film discusses the hierarchy of genres in the 18th century, among which the still life was the lowest category. Shows...

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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)

Director

Giles Penso

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £17.99

Documentary which looks at the life, career and influence of Ray Harryhausen, a man deemed the grandfather of stop-motion animation. Famous for his work on films such as JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) and...

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Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

Director

Jean Hellwig

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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Classic TV Commercials of the 50s, 60s and 70s (3 Vols) (2007)

Subject

Business studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £14.99 (each vol, £24.999 the set)

The television commercial is a unique art form, challenging the makers to squeeze a lasting message into a tiny time slot and it has been part of television since the early days of live broadcasts, which...

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Herat Films (1983 Video)

Director

John Baily

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 107 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1999 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Three programmes edited from seven hours of Super-8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and 1977. All...

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Beneath the Hood/Beneath the Hood Revisited (2005)

Director

Eelyn Lee

Subject

Education; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £105.00 (Artfims)

BENEATH THE HOOD tells the stories of students from Daniel House, a Pupil Referral Unit in Hackney for young people who have been permanently excluded from mainstream school. Producer/Director Eelyn Lee,...

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