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Arab Londoners - Migrants and British Identity (2015)

Producer

Jayne Egerton

Subject

Anthropology; Social Studies

Podcast. THINKING ALOUD is a BBC 4 radio discussion series first broadcast in 1998 and hosted by Laurie Taylor focusing on the latest social science research. In this edition Professor Taylor talks to Ramy...

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Documents in Stone: Early Christian Crosses from the North West (1995 Video)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Explores the significance of early Christian sculpture as an historical source by looking at four Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age crosses in Cumbria and the Solway basin. Looks in detail at the eighth-century...

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Magical Death (1973 Film)

Director

Timothy Asch; Napoleon Chagnon

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw‰ in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....

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Hidden Faces (1996 Film, Video)

Director

Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...

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Kalasha, The: Rites of Spring (1990 Video)

Director

John Sheppard

Producer

John Sheppard

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the small Kalasha tribe who live in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan, the last people of the region to have resisted conversion to Islam. Their relgion is is closely connected with an alpine...

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Devils, The (1971)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Film studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £16.00

In seventeenth-century France, Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city of Loudun from destruction at the hands of the establishment. Soon, he stands accused of the demonic...

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London Symphony: A Poetic Journey Through the Life of a City (2017)

Director

Alex Barrett

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £12.00

The ‘city symphony’ became a popular type of urban documentary during the last decade of the silent era. LONDON SYMPHONY pays homage to that subgenre. Its director, Alex Barrett, shot the film silent,...

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IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

aka: House of Life, The

Director

David Byrne

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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Life After Death (2014)

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £85.00

This DVD consists of five short films on the subject of life after death, including the thoughts of Plato, The Buddha, St Paul, St Augustine, Pascal, Descartes, Gilbert Ryle, John Hick, Stevenson, Susan...

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Young Pope, The (2016)

Director

Paolo Sorrentino

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 544 minutes), £14.99

Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, is the first American Pope in history. Young and charming, his election might seem the result of a simple and effective media strategy by the College of Cardinals. But, as we...

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