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Nothing Like the Sun: The Sonnet Project (2007 Video)

A new work by composer Gavin Bryars commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North. Inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, Nothing Like The Sun: The Sonnet Project is a two-part performance....

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Jane Austen in Context (1998)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 374 minutes), free loan

Six presentations on the work of Jane Austen, which were filmed in 1997 at a conference in the Dept of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. On 2 videocassettes with three lectures on each. The...

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New additions to the Moving Image Gateway

Date

28 Jan 2013, 15:12

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,300 websites relating to   video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into   over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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Immortal Gentleman, The (1935 Film)

Director

Widgey R. Newman

Producer

Widgey R. Newman

Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...

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Media Screen Roundup - November 2014

Date

22 Dec 2014, 10:52

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In the month the new James Bond film was...

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Ages of Man (1966 Television)

Director

Paul Bogart

Producer

David Susskind; Daniel Melnick

US television special. Adaptation of Gielgud’s 1959 one-man show on Broadway. Gielgud gives readings from the plays and sonnets grouped into the themes of Youth, Adulthood, Maturity and Death. There are...

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Great Writers of the Twentieth Century (1997)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes each), £125.00 each or £500 the set of 25

Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott...

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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

Date

3 Feb 2015, 10:34

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00 About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...

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A History of Film Music

Date

8 Sep 2014, 07:59

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

A History of Film Music by Mervyn Cooke (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 584 pages, ISBN: 978-0521010481 (paperback), £17.99 About the reviewer: Dr Kevin Donnelly is Reader in Film at University of...

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Spring Re-Loaded 3 (8 Parts) (1997)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

out of distribution

Recordings of contemporary dance performances from the 1996 Spring Loaded season held at The Place, London. The two-camera live-mix version does not interpret the work but does capture the spontaneity of...

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