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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida (2015)

    Director
    Joanna Callaghan
    Subject
    Literature; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £60.00 (DVD PAL & Blu-ray)

    A drama-documentary inspired by The Post Card by Jacques Derrida. Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant is in analysis. Filmmaker...

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  8. Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

    Director
    Jack Smight
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

    This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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  9. First World War in Poetry (2014)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 70 minutes), £10.00

    Selection of poems written about the First World War read by actor Rory Kinnear. Among the poets represented are Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon,...

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  10. Great War Poets, The (2014)

    Director
    Bob Carruthers
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 46 minutes), £11.00

    Documentary about the First World War poets, including Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and A.E.Housman.

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