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  1. Sense and Sensation: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (2002)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £!6.99

    An exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London, written and presented by historian John Brewer. The film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created. A world,...

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  2. Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds (2002)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Psychology

    A two part series exploring the condition of synaesthesia and the impact it is having on the way in which scientists understand perception. Recent scientific research shows that the synaesthesia can take a...

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  3. Mirrors of Paradise (1991 Video)

    Director
    Jurgen Schadeberg
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £50.00

    Celebrates the cultural and religious co-existence between Muslim, Christian and Jew which throve in Spain prior to 1492 and so influenced the European Renaissance. Features poetry, architecture, paintings,...

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  4. Bobby Fischer Against the World (1991)

    Director
    Liz Arbus
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £9.99

    Director Liz Garbus presents this look at the life of volatile chess player Bobby Fischer, who stunned the world in 1958 by becoming the U.S. champion, and later shot to infamy for his increasingly erratic...

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  5. Portraits in Black (1986)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $39.95 ($79.95 institutional use)

    A collection of three award-winning films. This compilation is designed to increase awareness of how black writers, artists and freedom fighters contributed to the American cultural tradition. PAUL LAURENCE...

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  6. Hangman, The (1964)

    Producer
    Les Goldman
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    This short film, composed of paintings by Paul Julian, and accompanied by Maurice Ogden’s poem tells the story of a hangman who arrives at a town and executes its citizens one by one. As each citizen is...

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  7. Full House [21/10/72] (Television)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Music

    Arts entertainment series, presenting a mixture of music, theatre, poetry, the visual arts and comedy introduced by Joe Melia. Includes an item in which Cantores in Ecclesia, conducted by Michael Howard,...

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  8. Bill Viola

    aka: Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s

    Director
    Gerald Fox
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 82 minutes), £17.99

    Documentary following one of the world’s most influential video artist, Bill Viola, and his wife and close collaborator, Kira Perov, over a twelve-year period. During this time they undertake and complete...

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  9. Resurrecting the Sublime

    Director
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsber
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Biology

    Short documentary. Using tiny amounts of DNA extracted from specimens of three flowers stored at Harvard University’s Herbaria, an interdisciplinary team of biotechnology researchers, engineers, and...

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