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Making of ‘Inferno’, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Looks at the creative process behind Ocean Software’s computer game ‘Inferno’, following each stage of development from conception to the creation of the creatures who inhabit the virtual world within...

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Memory Game, The (1984 Video)

Director

John Berrecloth

Producer

Mary Cuthbert

Subject

Education; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

Shows aspects of human memory via a seven year old child’s playing of a memory game on a BBC microcomputer.

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Global Fantasy II: The Irresistible Spread of the Computer Game? (2000)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 29 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Explores the globalisation of culture through he contemporary phenomenon of computer games. Surveys gaming culture in Japan, the US and the UK and then explores the global flows of computer games, offering...

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Virtual Me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft (2013)

Director

Trent Monahan; Sarah Prothero; Jennifer Torson

Subject

Anthropology; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 11 minutes), £20.00

VIRTUAL ME examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within their virtual...

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Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1975 Film)

Director

Jerry W Leach

Subject

Anthropology; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £37.50

An ethnographic film about cricket as played in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. In the first half the people explain how to play the game and tell why they changed it over the last 70 years. The...

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Game over: Kasparov and the Machine (2004)

Subject

Information technology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Documentary about Garry Kasparov’s chess game in 1997 with Deep Blue, the one-and-a-half ton IBM supercomputer that won the contest. The film delves into Kasparov’s psyche as he comes to terms with a...

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Keeping the Peace (1987 Film, Video)

aka: Peace Game, The

Director

John Selwyn Gilbert

Producer

Barry Palin

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Updated version of THE PEACE GAME. Puts forward official arguments for the retention of Britain’s nuclear weapons as a deterrent.*

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War Game, The (2003)

Subject

Drama; Media studies; Politics & government; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes)

Few films have caused as much controversy as Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a ‘limited’ nuclear attack on Kent. Blending fiction and fact to create a...

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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess (1987)

Director

Jean-Marie Drot

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 56 minutes), £14.95

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1868), inventor of the ready-made and ‘godfather’ of Dada and surrealism, abandoned art in 1923. This interview was filmed for his first one-man show in 1963 and gives a unique...

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Game for a Job

Subject

Careers Guidance; FE

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 19 minutes), £44.00

Targeted at the less articulate, often disaffected young person who lacks even the most basic job search skills. It aims to communicate those fundamental skills - without which success in applying for a job...

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