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  1. 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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  2. In Love with Shakespeare (2003 Radio)

    Series
    Howard Goodall’s Classical Connections
    Producer
    Terry Carter

    Radio documentary. Part 1 of an eight-part series in which Howard Goodall explores links between musical genres. In the first episode Goodall chooses music inspired by the works of Shakespeare with excerpts...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Early Russian Cinema (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, 10 videocassettes. VHS. b&w. 45, 55, 58, 55, 45, 94, 95, 104, 100, 72 min., 1995 sale: £165.00 (+p&p) set

    An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...

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