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Poets and People (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30, 45, 45 min.

Part 1: Douglas Dunn reads his poems to a mixed-age audience at a community school on a deprived housing estate outside Edinburgh. An account of Dunn’s background is illustrated by stills of places...

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Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Keith Griffiths; Stephen Quaij; Timothy Quaij

Producer

Keith Griffiths

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A cultural history of Punch and Judy and a documentary on Giovanni Piccini. Piccini’s ‘Tragical Comedy and Comical Tragedy’ of Punch and Judy was first recorded in 1827 by J Payne Collier and...

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Honey Pot, The (1967)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 minutes), £19.99

The Honey Pot is based on ‘Volpone’, the play by Ben Jonson. Rex Harrison stars as international playboy Cecil Fox, who decides to pretend he’s dying in order to find out what his three old flames will...

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Just Entertainment? Culture in the 1980s (1992 Video)

Director

Peter Wollen

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Critical analysis from Patrick Wright, composer Harrison Birtwhistle, theatre critic Michael Billington and Iain Sinclair.

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Donor Unknown (2011)

aka: Sperm Donor Unknown

Director

Jerry Rothwell

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £19.99

Documentary about a young American woman who is reunited with her sperm donor father Jeffrey Harrison, who she only knew as Donor 150. JoEllen Marsh grew up in Pennsylvania with two mothers, and had a...

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No Pain, No Gain (1996 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 64 min.

Performance-based works focusing on the body: ‘Through the Night Softly’ (Chris Burden, USA, 1973, 3 min), ‘Rocked Stomach’ (Dennis Oppenheim, USA, 1970, 4 min), ‘Openings’ (Vito Acconci, USA,...

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Definition of a Group, The

Director

Michael Harrison

Subject

Mathematics

This short video explains one of the most fundamental ideas from abstract algebra, the definition of a group. [3 minutes 10 seconds]

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Linguists, The (2008)

Director

Seth Kramer; Daniel A. Miller; Jeremy Newberger

Subject

Anthropology; Languages

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $300.00

Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this case, endangered languages. On a shoestring budget,...

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This is a Projection (2018)

Director

John Wood; Paul Harrison

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 5 minutes), On request

Experimental film. "This is a projection This is a projector This is a slide projector This is a slide This is a series of words This is a synopsis".

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Society and Literature in the 1930s for Universities (197)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between Stephen Spender, C. Connelly, A. Kettle, L. Lerner, T. Harrison and David...

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