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  1. When I Sit Down to Write: Two Films by Samuel Stevens (2010)

    Director
    Samuel Stevens
    Subject
    Film studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £25.60

    The DVD includes SIN PAPELES (2005) and ATLANTROPA (2009) two works that explore issues of migration as they manifest in contemporary Spain. SIN PAPELES (11 minutes) relates the encounter of the artist with...

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  2. Claude Levi-Strauss in His Own Words (2009)

    aka: Claude Levi-Strauss Par Lui-Même

    Director
    Pierre-André Boutang; Annie Chevallay
    Subject
    Anthropology; French studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 93 minutes), $39.95

    This French television documentary recounts the extraordinary career of the father of structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose theories not only influenced that field, but also linguistics,...

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  3. Portrait of a Coalminer (2009)

    Subject
    History; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 347 minutes), £24.99

    This two-disc DVD collection brings together over five hours of short films exploring the lives of the British coal miner. Remastered drama-documentaries, cartoons and news footage, all produced by the...

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  4. Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Culture in Qualitative Research (2009)

    Subject
    Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 50 minutes), $95.00

    Qualitative research provides us with a means to gain a deep description of the lives we study. But entering in a community can be difficult. We have to suspend our own cultural lens while examining the...

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  5. Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis Reinvented (2009)

    aka: Jacques Lacan la Psychoanalyse Reinventee

    Director
    Elizabeth Kapnist
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychiatry; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £24.99

    Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, heir to Sigmund Freud and the English school of analysis, was an eloquent interpreter of the transformations of the Western family, the decline of patriarchy,...

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  6. Assumptions (2009)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This programme starts with a number of examples to illustrate what is meant by "assumptions", before proceeding to use a film about the rise in binge drinking among teenage girls to test students’ critical...

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  7. 'It’s a Young Country’: Turkey and Akbank (2009)

    Director
    Charles K. Mann; Franco Sacchi
    Subject
    Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 18 minutes), $165.00 [Institutional rate]

    Commissioned to make a film for a teaching case at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, filmmaker Charles Mann drew upon seven years as a working economist in Turkey to produce a film that captures the...

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  8. Why we Need a Social Science of Religion (2009)

    Subject
    Religious studies; Social sciences

    Professor Steve Bruce, of the University of Aberdeen, delivers the First Annual Lecture for the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, University of London. [48 minutes]

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  9. Indian Miracle, The (2008)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 49 minutes), $295.00

    The new India has a high-tech, highly-skilled economy growing at an incredible nine per cent a year. Its universities are churning out thousands of highly qualified science and computer graduates working in...

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  10. Research in Context (2008)

    Subject
    Psychology; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This "Short Cuts" package consists of a number of short video programmes designed to give teachers the flexibility to integrate illustrative video material into their lessons in whatever way they choose....

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