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  1. TV Dante, A: ‘The Inferno’ Cantos I-Viii (1989 Video)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway; Tom Philips
    Producer
    Kees Kasander; Denis Wigman
    Subject
    English language and literature; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £15.99 (inc. VAT)

    A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...

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  2. Italia, Anni 80 (1982 Audio)

    Subject
    Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 5 x 60 min.

    Consists of 10 units with drills based on live interviews. The topics covered include education, industry, politics, science and town planning. The aim is to accustom the student to hearing a wide range of...

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  3. Padre Padrone (1979)

    Director
    Paolo e Vittorio Taviani
    Subject
    Italian studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

    Padre Padrone is the intense and powerful tale of a young, barely literate shepherd boy, who lives under the thumb of his tyrannical and brutal peasant father. Rescued from his family and his isolated...

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  4. Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978 Video)

    aka: Albero Degli Zoccoli, L’

    Director
    Ermanno Olmi
    Subject
    Italian studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Videocassette. VHS. col. 170 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.

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  5. Florentine Carnival (1977 Video)

    Subject
    History; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Recreates background for the street carnivals of the time of Lorenzo de Medici. A group of strolling players presents songs, sketches and a display of tumbling.

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  6. Decameron, The (1970 Video)

    aka: Decamarone, Il

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Producer
    Alberto Grimaldi
    Subject
    Italian studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    An uncut version of Pasolini’s film adaptation of ten stories from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, his 14th-century reworking of a hundred bawdy Italian folk-tales.

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  7. Conformist, The (1970)

    aka: Conformista, Il

    Director
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Subject
    Film studies; Italian studies; Politics & government; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £27.99

    A man named Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) attempts to escape his emotional past by subscribing to totalitarianism in Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece of Italian cinema. But when Clerici is asked to...

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  8. Viva L’Italia (1961)

    aka: Garibaldi

    Director
    Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)
    Subject
    History; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £15.00/£12.00

    To celebrate the centenary of the unification of Italy, the Italian government commissioned Rossellini to make a biopic of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1860 campaign to unify Italy. The result is visually...

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  9. Vitelloni, I (1953)

    Director
    Federico Fellini
    Subject
    Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £19.99

    The winner of the prestigious Silver Lion Award at the 1953 Venice Film Festival, Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI is a brilliant and sharp observation of Italian social life in the 1950’s. The title,...

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  10. Great Writers: Alberto Moravia

    Subject
    Italian studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $19.99

    Italian writer Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, was born in Rome. As a youth, while recovering from tuberculosis, he began writing about the moral difficulties of people socially...

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