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  1. Private Joseph Kay (2018)

    Director
    Matt Kay
    Subject
    History; Literature

    Jackie Kay’s poem Private Joseph Kay is dedicated to her grandfather who fought at the Somme. This short film, made by award-winning director Matthew Kay, responds to the poem and the themes it raises. [7...

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  2. I See My Reputation is at Stake (2017 Audio)

    aka: Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in China

    Producer
    Richard Paul
    Subject
    Literature; Shakespeare

    A discussion of the life and times of the 17th Century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu who has been dubbed the Shakespeare of the East.

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  3. Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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  4. The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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  5. 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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  6. James Joyce Goes to China (2016)

    Director
    Ian Madden
    Subject
    Drama; Literature

    Documentary following Glasgow’s Tron Theatre Company as they tour China with a stage adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. [60 minutes]

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  7. Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    A film poem commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, performed by Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon. [60 minutes]

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  8. Breathing in Science Fiction (2016)

    Subject
    Literature; Science

    From Darth Vader’s laboured respiration, to the divers gasping for air in James Cameron’s The Abyss, the sounds of breathing in science fiction are not only memorable, they also draw attention to the act...

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  9. Virago: Changing the World One Page at a Time (2016)

    Director
    Clare Whalley
    Subject
    Literature; Women’s studies

    Documentary telling the story of publishing house Virago Press, which dared to set itself apart to champion women’s literature in an industry dominated in the 1970s by men. [59 minutes]

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  10. 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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