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  1. Influence of Joyce’s Writing on Iain Sinclair’s Own Style of Urban Narrative (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    Recording of the John Coffin Memorial Reading, which took place at the Institute of English Studies on June 16, 2016. Writer Iain Sinclair discusses the influence of Joyce’s writing on his own style of...

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  2. Our Mockingbird (2016)

    Director
    Sandy Jaffe
    Subject
    Literature; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $295.00

    OUR MOCKINGBIRD is a documentary that uses Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two...

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  3. Author: The Jt Leroy Story (2016)

    Director
    Jeff Feuerzeig
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary about the truth behind the JT Leroy literary phenomenon. Leroy was a fictional persona created by writer Laura Albert and played by Albert’s sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop. In 2006, The New York...

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  4. John Updike Radio Files, The (2014)

    Subject
    Literature

    A conversation with John Updike’s biographer, Adam Begley, recorded for a Radio Open Source podcast. Begley talks about Updike’s Pennsylvania boyhood, his wives and lovers north of Boston, his children,...

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  5. Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony (2014)

    Director
    Elizabeth Lennard
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 mins), $14.95

    Documentary. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of...

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  6. Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin (2014)

    Director
    Paul Mitchell
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.99

    This documentary, narrated by Stephen Fry, tells the story of America and Europe’s love of Russian literature and introduces audiences to a new generation of Russian writers. With readings by host Stephen...

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  7. Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)

    Director
    William Karel; Livia Manera
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $24.99

    Film about the American novelist Philip Roth, which explores his career, from Goodbye, Columbus, through the scandalous success of Portnoy’s Complaint, and the later novels suych as Sabbath’s Theatre,...

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  8. You’Re Human Like the Rest of Them: The Collected Films of B.S. Johnson (2013)

    Director
    B.S. Johnson; Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    Best known for groundbreaking novels such as "The Unfortunates" and "Christy Malry’s Own Double-Entry", B.S. Johnson was also the director of a number of films that have been out of circulation for...

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  9. Crime and Punishment (2013)

    aka: Prestuplenie I Nakazanie

    Director
    Lev Kulidzhanov
    Subject
    Languages; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 221 minutes), £24.99

    1969 film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. The Ruscico DVD release is a three disc set which includes the fifty minute on-set documentary A FEW DAYS OF ONE FILM. The release includes English language...

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  10. Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013)

    Director
    Thomas P. O’Connor
    Producer
    Thomas P. O’Connor
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 66 minutes), $24.99

    The documentary uses Graham Greene’s own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and film clips, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The...

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