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Explores the production, distribution and consumption of knowledge, using as illustrative examples two common issues facing parents, one old (the child who will not sleep) and one new (the possible side...
Uses contemporary archive film to present interviews with people who remenber the ‘birth’ of the post-war welfare state. Traces the influence of pre-war social and exonomic conditions and World War 2...
Uses Canadian film and television industries to raise issues about multiculturalism and minority cultures. Canada has a Multiculturalism Act intended to preserve it many different cultures, and regulations...
Explores the concept of national identity using landscape, artr, architecture and interior design to look at some of the ways in which ideas of Englishness have developed and have been perpetuated and...
Visits seven households in the UK to consider the meanings that people attach to objects in the home. Shows how, despite individual variations, each household reveals patterns of importance attached to...
Uses Canadian television as an example to raise issues of culture and identity. The government promotes national identity through strict regulations about the amount of ‘Canadian content’ while at the...
Shows how body image plays an important part in our self-definition and the construction of our personal identity. Members of a health club and boxers at a gym talk about why they participate in fitness...
Looks at four examples of the way fertility issues are presented on television - ‘Eggs for Sale’, ‘Orphan Embryos’, ‘Virgin Births’, ‘Older Mothers’ - and discusses the assumptions made in...
Uses Cardiff Bay in Wales, a redeveloped dockland area, as a case study to examine the different and changing meanings of particular places for different people, both locals and outsiders. Long-term...
Looks at ways in which new kinds of partnerships are forming. In Manchester the public and private sectors have joined with central government to bid for the Olympic Games in the year 2000. The public sector...
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