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  1. Performing Shakespeare: Techniques for Personalising and Energising the Scene (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £90.00

    Educational videotape. Kathleen Conlin presents a series of physical exercises to aid performance of the Shakespeare text. Designed for the American actor, it moves from the exploration of specific words and...

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  2. Geoffrey Chaucer: Poet and Pilgrim (1990)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 25 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

    This DVD uses explanatory narration, dramatised readings, medieval art, to explore Chaucer’s career, his usage of vernacular English, his wit, descriptive genius and power of characterisation.

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  3. What’s Wrong with This Building? (1989)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £95.00 [Institutional rate]

    This film, which documents a controversy over plans to alter the original architectural design of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines some of the problems raised by the decision, including Modernist...

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  4. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and the Mississippi: A Video Commentary (1988)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

    Gives students background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee Schlesinger, Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Purchase....

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  5. Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Video Commentary, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £115.00

    Educational videotape. An examination of the theatres of Shakespeare’s time and an analysis of the stories, characters and themes in Shakespeare’s tragedies. Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Professor of...

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  6. Literature of the Supernatural: Worlds Beyond Reason (1984)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 41 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

    A survey of supernatural themes in literature.

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  7. Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed (1983)

    aka: Como Querem Beber Agua

    Subject
    Drama; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £105.00

    In 1994 Ronaldo Morelos spent 5 months in Rio de Janeiro, observing and documenting the work of Augusto Boal and the Centro de Teatro do Oprimido. This was the time of the Brazilian national elections. It...

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  8. New Cinema of Latin America, The (1983)

    Director
    Michael Chanan
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 170 minutes), £120.00 [University rate]

    Michael Chanan’s two-part documentary on ‘New Cinema of Latin America’, made for the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which...

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  9. Ubu Roi (1977)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £200.00

    This programme explains how the anarchic political parody by Alfred Jarry employs many non-realistic theatrical conventions and exemplifies modern, expressionistic drama. It includes a condensed version of...

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  10. Pompidou Centre (Beauborg), The: Design and Construction (1977)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), £95.00

    Film about the planning, construction, scope and controversial reception of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, presented by Arts writer and lecturer Rosamond Bernier. Many paintings - including works by...

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