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  1. Prometheus Unbound (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Introduction to Shelley’s play, setting it in its cultural context: Aeschylus, Göethe and Byron, Flaxman, Beethoven and Schubert. Examples are chosen from the opening act of Prometheus’ suffering and...

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  2. Walter Kerr on Theatre (1970 Film, Video)

    Drama critic Walter Kerr comments on excerpts from five plays performed by professional actors. He discusses characteristics unique to the live dramatic form by comparing these scenes with segments of film....

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  3. Seize the Fire (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    This specially commissioned play is a modern version by Tom Paulin of Aeschylus’ fifth-century Greek drama ‘Prometheus Bound’. The play begins with Prometheus bound to a rock at the world’s end, by...

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  4. Ancient Drama - Contemporary Views (1989 Video)

    Director
    Lucia Rikaki
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    Contemporary interpretations of classic Greek plays by leading directors. Includes extracts from Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (Andrej Wajda), ‘Oresteia’ by Aeschylus (Hans Gunther Heyme), ‘The...

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  5. Present in the Past, The: Authenticity in Greek Drama (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    Examines the dilemma facing those wishing to produce Greek drama in the 20th century. Is archaeological authenticity (truth to the evidence such as it is) more important than its meaning for our time - what...

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  6. Shakespeare on Love. Part 2 (1979 Television)

    Series
    Meeting of Minds
    Director
    Alfred Ryder; Loring d’Usseau
    Producer
    Loring d’Usseau

    US television series. A chat show/variety series, hosted by Steve Allen, taking the form of a dramatised debate in which guests interact with each other and discuss wide-ranging issues - history, religion,...

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  7. Shakespeare on Love. Part 1 (1979 Television)

    Series
    Meeting of Minds
    Director
    Alfred Ryder; Loring d’Usseau
    Producer
    Loring d’Usseau

    US television series. A chat show/variety series, hosted by Steve Allen, taking the form of a dramatised debate in which guests interact with each other and discuss wide-ranging issues - history, religion,...

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  8. Interrogating the Past, Challenging the Present (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Mags Noble
    Subject
    Architecture; Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., Sale as part of A209/VC2 only.

    Considers some of the critical processes involved in the study of history. Argues that as the Greeks were themselves aware, interrogating the past can be used to illuminate and challenge the present. The...

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  9. Kuhle Wampe (1932 Video)

    aka: Wither Germany?

    Director
    Slatan Dudow
    Producer
    Georg M Hoellering; Robert Scharfenberg
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68, 48 min., 2004 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A 68-minute feature film written by Berthold Brecht, focusing on the fortunes of a working-class family in depression-era Berlin and the disastrous consequences of poverty and mass unemployment which forced...

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  10. Mark Wallinger (2002)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 min), £12.99

    theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists in Britain. Each film provides a survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by...

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