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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. Media Screen Round-up November 2016

    Date
    15 Dec 2016, 10:46
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. This month's bumper issue...

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Cinematic Translation of Shakespearean Tragedies, A (2008 Film)

    Director
    Liz Tabish

    Experimental short. A series of six short films based on Shakespeare’s tragedies conceptualised by a variety of film genres: Othello (silent film), Romeo and Juliet (film noir), Hamlet (classic Hollywood...

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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