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  1. Plague on You, A (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Draws on evidence from both press and television to show how the media has promoted and reinforced the prejudice of ‘homophobia’, especially at a time when there is widepread concern at the spread of...

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  2. Leader, His Driver, And the Driver’s Wife, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Nicholas Broomfield
    Producer
    Nicholas Broomfield; Rita Oord
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    Shows what happens when the apparently awkward Nick Broomfield tries to make a film about the white right-wing neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche. Broomfield lulls his...

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  3. Africa’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality (2015)

    Subject
    Development studies; Information technology

    Video podcast from the Oxford Internet Institute. Padrig Carmody analyses the phenomenal recent growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa. Based on over two hundred firm level interviews in...

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  4. Introduction to Richard III (2020 Video)

    Series
    The Shakespeare 2020 Project

    Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Robin Hizme introduces the main themes and characters from this, her favourite among the history plays. She focuses on the depiction of the title...

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  5. Shakespeare Without Tears (1959 Television)

    Series
    Frankie Howerd in...
    Director
    Eric Miller

    BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....

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  6. Max Ernst and the Surrealist Revolution (1993)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution

    Examines the relationship between the revolutionary rhetoric of surrealist literature and the works of Max Ernst, which are not evidently about revolutionary subjects. The essential link lies in the process...

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  7. Verb: Live Broadcast, The (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Verb, The

    Poet Ian McMillan hosts late night entertainment with a roundtable of writers celebrating Shakespeare’s language. Benet Brandreth, a rhetoric coach, has written a new novel imagining Shakespeare’s lost...

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  8. Working Illegally (2015)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences

    Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are often incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge....

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  9. Elegy of the Land - Maria/Last Day of a Rainy Summer (2007)

    Director
    Alexander Sokurov
    Subject
    Agriculture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40/30 minutes), £24.99

    Two shorts by Alexander Sokurov about the significance of the land to Russia, where it has an almost spiritual meaning. Both films are embued with the director’s signature moody melancholy. MARIA, made in...

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  10. Undercurrents 10 (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 71 min., 1999 sale: £27.95 (per issue) institutional 1999 subscription: £72.95 (1 year/3 issues) institutional

    A video magazine of alternative news, published in response to a frustration with mainstream news reporting. All the material was shot on domestic camcorders, mostly by activists who are using the media to...

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