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  1. 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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  2. Share Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine (2015)

    Subject
    History; Information technology; Media studies

    Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) discusses a project which he undertook in 2014 with the British Library Labs to find and revive thousands of forgotten Victorian jokes. His ‘Victorian Meme Machine’...

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  3. Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

    Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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  4. This Week: Volume 1 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £9.60

    THIS WEEK was the first weekly current-affairs programme aired on commercial television in the UK. Beginning in 1956 as a light, magazine-style show punctuated by more serious items, by the mid-1960s it...

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  5. Inreallife (2014)

    aka: In Real Life

    Director
    Beeban Kidron
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £9.99

    INREALLIFE asks what exactly is the internet and what is it doing to our children? Taking us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, filmmaker Beeban Kidron...

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  6. British Transport Films Collection Volume Twelve: The Driving Force (2014)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

    Following the nationalisation of public transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, British Transport Films was led for 25...

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  7. World in Action: Volume 4 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 628 minutes), £14.40

    This DVD collects a number of notable episodes from the ITV current affairs series which ran from 1963-1999. The Granada-produced series was trailblazing and hard-hitting, choosing subjects that other...

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  8. Watford’s Quiet Heroes (2014)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30), £13.00

    The stories of three men who refused to fight in WW1, and society’s attitudes raising questions about patriotism, politics and religion. The film and additional material are suitable as an educational...

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  9. Dsknectd: Is Technology Changing Us? (2014)

    Director
    Dominic White
    Subject
    Media studies; Social sciences; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 98 mins.), $295

    Since childhood, we’ve been promised that the 21st century would bring dramatic new technologies, like flying cars and robots in every home. Instead, it brought the smartphone, social media, and virtual...

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  10. Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)

    Director
    Nancy Kates
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 100 mins), $395

    An investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. This documentary tracks Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images, archival materials,...

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