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Life and Death in Rio (1985 Video)

Producer

Vic Lockwood

Subject

Development studies; Medical sciences

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Rio de Janeiro has the reputation of being the world’s most glamorous city, but nine million people who live there are subject to infectious diseases and malnutrition. Death rates are high and life...

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Latin American Cinemas

Date

6 Nov 2013, 18:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections edited by Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios (University of Calgary Press, 2011). 344 pages. ISBN: 978-1552385142 (paperback). £29.50 About the...

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Life and Debt (1992 Video)

Director

Octavio Bezerra

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Examines the links betwen Brazil’s debt, the devastation of its rain forest and the kiling of street children in Rio de Janeiro.

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Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed (1983)

aka: Como Querem Beber Agua

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £105.00

In 1994 Ronaldo Morelos spent 5 months in Rio de Janeiro, observing and documenting the work of Augusto Boal and the Centro de Teatro do Oprimido. This was the time of the Brazilian national elections. It...

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Brazil: Shadows on the Street (1995 Video)

Producer

Darren Bender

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Focuses on Brazilian street children and the Candelária massacre of July 1993 in which seven street children and a youth were gunned down outside Candelária church in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Follows the...

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Pulp Future (1996 Video)

Producer

Mark Dowd

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Looks at locations across the world which can be seen as testbeds for a chaotic and anarchic future: China, where the potential for chaos is caused by environmental pressures, social inequity and the rush to...

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Welcome to the Anthropocene (2012)

Subject

Environmental science

In June 2012, ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The summit was the largest UN meeting to date. A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of...

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Waste Land (2011)

Director

Lucy Walker

Producer

Angus Aynsley

Subject

Art; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 99 minutes), £19.99

This film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he leaves his New York studio behind and travels to Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Here, on the world’s largets landfill site, he...

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Developing Tomorrow’s Energy (1980 Film)

Director

Jim Turpie

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col 25 min.

An account of the mining and refining of uranium showing how the development of energy from uranium is providing much of the world’s current needs.

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Brands: The X Factor (1999 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at four companies that own famous brand names - HP Bulmer, Walker’s Shrotbread, Rio Tinto and Northumbrian - and examines what it takes to keep their brands fresh.

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