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  1. Population Transition in Italy (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Leathem
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Focusing on Italy as an extreme case, this programme follows up one of the crucial issues in understanding population change - the decline in fertility in Italy. It describes what has happened to Italy’s...

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  2. Focus on Italian Cinema

    Date
    8 Jun 2012, 12:55
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC's Viewfinder Online magazine continues its focus on films and filmmakers from the Italian peninsula with reviews of the latest books, DVDs and Blu-rays. Some of the latest to be published on the...

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  3. Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

    aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

    Director
    Ermanno Olmi
    Subject
    Italian studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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  4. 1900 (2007)

    aka: Novecento

    Director
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Italian studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 326 minutes), £15.99

    Bertolucci’s epic film of the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century. It chronicles the lives of two men born on the same day in 1900. Depardieu plays the bastard...

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  5. 17th Year, The (1940 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A rare example of an Italian Fascist film. Mussolini is seen praising the achievements of his regime, 17 years after the take-over. Sequences of industrialisation, agriculture and Italian colonial conquest.

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  6. Videocracy (2009)

    Director
    Erik Gandini
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £4.99

    Silvio Berlusconi is the most powerful man in Italy, wielding authority and influence across the media, where he controls 90 per cent of television, and in politics, where he is prime minister. He even owns...

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  7. Tempesta Sui Balcan (1941 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Celebrates Italy’s use of air power during the Balkan offensive. Footage of bombing missions, a jubilant commentary listing targets successfully destroyed, and a lively if somewhat odd musical soundtrack...

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  8. Weconomics (2016)

    Director
    Mark Dworkin; Melissa Young
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 19 minutes), $195.00

    The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is...

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  9. Unification of Italy, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the reasons for the creation of a unified, secular state which few appeared to want. Emphasises the disunity of Italy in term of class, economics and politics and stresses the importance of...

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  10. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture

    Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

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