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  1. Naples is a Battlefield (1944 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated....

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  2. Gomorrah (2009)

    Director
    Matteo Garrone
    Subject
    Italian studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £14.99

    Based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano Gomorrah is a story of power, money and blood. These are the "values" that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day; they have...

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  3. Visual Input and Orientation in the Octopus (1973 Film)

    aka: Optomotor Responses in a Cephalopod2

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Andrew Packard, of the Zoological Gardens in Naples, gives a series of demonstrations of the effects on the baby octopus of rotating visual fields.

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  4. Homage to Dr e J Marey (1954 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Like Dr Eadweard Muybridge earlier, Dr Etienne-Jules Marey produced a set of time and motion study plates in the 1890s: originally published as a series of still photographs they can reproduce the actual...

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  5. Last Journey of John Keats, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    James Runcie
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1820 poet John Keats was advised by doctors to travel to Italy for the healthier climate, as he was dying of tuberculosis. Here, Keats’ biographer Andrew Motion retraces the poet’s journey to Naples...

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  6. Rover, The 1 (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 181 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    During the 17th century the theatre was predominately a male domain from which women were excluded, especially as playwrights. For Aphra Behn, the first woman playwright, to enter the fiercely competitive...

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  7. Film Socialisme (2011)

    Director
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes)

    An allegorical , semi-documentary cine-essay that is a meditation on the history, culture, philosophy and economics of modern Europe. Described by Godard as ‘a symphony in three movements’: THINGS SUCH...

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  8. Architectures (5 Disc Series) (2009)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 160 mins each disc approx), £12.99(each disc) £40.00 (set)

    A series of 29 programmes on five DVDs each consisting of five or six individual 26-minute films which present a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of leading architects and some of their most...

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