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  1. Myth and Music (1998 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2004 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Uses a traditional Scottish myth to examine the interaction between myth and music and the ways in which a myth may be reworked, both by storytellers and by musicians.

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  2. Looking for Hinduism in Calcutta (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines various forms of Hinduism in Calcutta and raises fundamental questions about how the term ‘religion’ is used and about the legitimacy of applying this Western concept to the realities of other...

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  3. Oedipus the King 1 (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 120 min.

    A performance of Sophocles’ most famous tragedy, setting the play in the past but not the distant past.

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  4. Off with the Mask: TV In the ‘60s (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Features excerpts from four innovative British television programmes/series of the 1970s to reveal how a ‘cultural revolution’ in 1960s’ Britain transformed the content and style of television from the...

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  5. Rothko: The ‘Seagram Murals’ (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Analyses Mark Rothko’s ‘Seagram Murals’, illustrating how Rothko wanted to find a modern equivalent for the kinds of achievement he admired in the figure painters of the past. Filmed in the Tate...

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  6. What is Religion? (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Members from a range of religious communities in Liverpool discuss different aspects of their faith. The programme explores problems in identifying and defining religion, by exploring adherents’ beliefs...

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  7. Dr Paglia (1992 Film)

    Director
    Monika Treut
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A portrait of Camille Paglia, professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, who came to prominence with her book ‘Sexual Personae’ (Yale University, 1990), which became a...

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  8. Framing and Forming (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Many works of art are already supported by some form of cultural authority, whether by sophisticated critics or by long-term popularity. Here, Jackson Pollock’s abstract work ‘Summertime’ is used to...

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  9. Emperor’s Gift, The (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines what the remains of the Coliseum in Rome can tell us about the way it was built and what when on in the famous amphitheatre, and what significance the activities of this huge arena had in the life...

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  10. Picturing the Genders (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Attempts to explain why just one per cent of the paintings in London’s National Gallery’s historical collection are by women artists, maintaining that women in the past were deprived of the opportunity...

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