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  1. Martha Hall: I Make Books (2016)

    Subject
    Health Education; Women’s studies

    Short film documenting book artist Martha A. Hall’s creative responses to her cancer diagnoses and treatments. Hall’s books provided personal healing and an opportunity to convey her experience of...

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  2. India’s Daughter (2015)

    Director
    Leslee Udwin
    Producer
    Leslee Udwin
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 62 mins), $395

    INDIA’S DAUGHTER is the story of the 2012, brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23-year-old medical student, who later died from her injuries. In 2012, it made international headlines and ignited protests...

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  3. Dreamcatcher (2015)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £9.99

    DREAMCATCHER profiles activist, and former prostitute, Brenda Myers-Powell and looks at the hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, A former teenage...

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  4. Love is All (2015)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Film studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 74 minutes), £19.99

    A documentary film exploring the depiction of love and courtship on film throughout the 20th century composed of archive material from the BFI National Archive, Yorkshire Film Archive and other sources. The...

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  5. On Beauty (2015)

    Director
    Joannna Rudnick
    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 31 minutes), $295

    Documentary short about challenging norms and redefining beauty. ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the...

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  6. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

    Director
    Pratibha Parmar
    Subject
    History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

    Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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  7. Love Between the Covers (2015)

    Director
    Laurie Kahn
    Subject
    Literature; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

    Romance novels comprise over a billion dollars a year in book sales, outselling science fiction, fantasy, and mystery combined. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous rather than elevated as a...

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  8. Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream (2015)

    Director
    Katherine Sender
    Subject
    Broadcasting; Media studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 53 minutes), $275

    What do popular television makeover programmes tell us about about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? Based on Katherine Sender’s book The Makeover the film examines this question against...

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  9. Story of Women and Art, The (2015)

    Director
    John Hodgson; Deborah Lee
    Subject
    Art; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 3 x 60 minutes), $509.85

    BBC2 three-part series presented by Professor Amanda Vickery exploring the history of women artists in Europe from the Renaissance onwards. It reflects the journey women’s creativity has taken, how it has...

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  10. Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film (2015)

    Subject
    Film studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 71 minutes), £19.99

    This compilation combines documentary footage of the suffragettes’ public activities with comedy films of the period. These gloriously anarchic pre-war comedies are full of bright sparks like the Tilly...

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