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  1. How Shakespeare’s Musical Writing Survives Translation (2016 Video)

    Subject
    Drama

    Short video series in which Shakespeare academics and students talk to camera about an aspect of Shakespeare’s work. The aim is to persuade foreign students to study Shakespeare in Britain. Sonia Massai,...

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  2. Ken Russell: The Great Composers: Elgar; The Debussy Film; Song of Summer (2016)

    Director
    Ken Russell
    Subject
    Music; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes + 82 minutes + 73 minutes), £29.99

    This collection brings together three of Ken Russell’s films which were made at the BBC during the sixties, for award-winning arts documentary series Monitor and Omnibus. The first of the three films,...

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  3. Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, The (2016)

    Subject
    Music

    Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner present a documentary about the circumstances behind the writing of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. [89 minutes]

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  4. Twelfth Night (2016 Video)

    Director
    Kane Chattey
    Producer
    Joy Campbell
    Subject
    Drama; Music; Shakespeare

    In the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the British recording artists Maverick Sabre, Mic Righteous and Eyez perform lyrics inspired by Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. The video is part of a series of...

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  5. In Search of Chopin (2015)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), £15.99

    Chopin’s grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide, but who exactly was this composer? He was terrified of public performance; he fled his...

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  6. 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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  7. Concerto: A Beethoven Journey (2015)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £29.98

    Documentary. Filmed over the course of four years director Phil Grabsky followed concert pianist Leif Ove Andsnes’s attempt to understand and interpret one of the greatest sets of works for piano ever...

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  8. Invisible Britain (2015)

    aka: Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

    Director
    Paul Sng
    Subject
    Music; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £17.95

    Part band documentary, part look at the state of the nation, the film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour of the UK in the run up to the 2015 General Election. It features neglected, broken down and boarded up...

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  9. 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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  10. Punk Singer, The (2014)

    Director
    Sini Anderson
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary about Kathleen Hanna, singer with the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, who as leader of the Riot Grrrl movement, became a feminist icon and spokeswoman.

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