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  1. Good Woman of Bangkok, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke; Glenys Rowe
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 82 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    An intimate portrait of a reluctant Third-World prostitute, Aoi, who caters for the enthusiastic First-World clientele crowding the bars of Thailand each night. She shares details of life as a prostitute and...

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  2. Cannibal Tours (1988 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    The ‘natives’ on the banks of the River Sepik in Papua New Guinea discuss the lives of Western tourists sailing thorough the jungle on a luxury cruiser, The ‘Melanesian Explorer’. The film raises the...

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  3. Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age (1985 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 86 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel film, declassified US Defence Department footage and interviews with the people of Rongelap, who on that occasion were not evacuated, to describe the US hydrogen bomb testing programme...

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  4. Couldn’t Be Fairer (1982 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Depicts the problems of alcoholism, racial violence and political oppression that Queensland Aboriginal people have to confront and overcome in their efforts to gain land rights and a standard of living...

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  5. Shark Callers of Kontu, The (1982 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke; Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Looks at the men of Kontu, a small coastal village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, who still practise the ritual of ‘shark calling’. Traditionally the men have gone to sea in frail outrigger canoes to...

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  6. Yap...How Did You Know We’d Like TV? (1980 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    The small island of Yap was part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, known as Micronesia, a possession given to the United States as a ‘strategic trust’ after World War II. Traditional culture...

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  7. Ileksen (1978 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Gary Kildea; Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Shows the election campaign, election day and the formation of a government in 1977 in Papua New Guinea, the first after the country became independent of Australia in 1975. The dominant impression is one of...

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  8. Yumi Yet (1976 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Documents Papua New Guinea’s Independence Day celebrations in of 16 September 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the capital. Also provides historical...

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