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  1. Part of the Furniture (1986 Video)

    Director
    Christopher Rawlence
    Producer
    Michael Jackson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire (BFI), Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 50 min.

    Ratings reveal how many people watch television; appreciation indexes claim to show whether people like what they see, but little is known about how people actually watch television. In 1985 Oxford...

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  2. Real People (1986 Video)

    Director
    Gina Newson
    Producer
    Michael Jackson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 48 min.

    Looks at the role of ‘ordinary’ people in television, from victims of crime, to contenders for THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Television requires people to act naturally on cue and talk about personal experiences...

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  3. Sheer Filth (1986 Video)

    Director
    Michael Dibb; Christopher Rawlence
    Producer
    Michael Jackson
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 38 min.

    Television is often held responsible for permissiveness, excessive consumerism, unruly behaviour of children, copycat crime and riots. The programme challenges these claims and suggests that television’s...

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  4. Take the Money and Run (1986 Video)

    Director
    Michael Dibb
    Producer
    Michael Jackson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette Betamax, VHS. col. 52 min.

    Examines televison’s role in sport sponsorship. In the summer of 1985 a worldwide audience of 100 million people watched the ‘grudge’ match between Zola Budd and Mary Decker for which Zola Budd (the...

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  5. TV Presenters: Look at Me While I’m Talking to You (1986 Video)

    Director
    Gina Newson
    Producer
    Michael Jackson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 38 min.

    Television presenters - chat show hosts, newsreaders, DJs and question masters - are among the most familiar faces on television. They talk directly through the camera to the viewer at home, as both host and...

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  6. Stranger Than Fiction (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Ian Potts
    Producer
    Jill Pack
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Reconstruction, through interviews, archive footage and dramatic sequences, of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s which conducted opinion surveys on everything from sex to the Abdication, the Munich...

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  7. Territories (1985 Film)

    Director
    Isaac Julien
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A kaleidoscopic presentation challenging traditional ways of looking at black cultures. Includes images from 1976 to 1984, from West London to Northern Ireland, covering carnival, colonialism, surveillance,...

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  8. Acting Tapes: Acting in the Cinema (2 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Director
    Mark Nash; James Swinson
    Producer
    Mark Nash; James Swinson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Hire (BFI) or sale (Zero One), Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 54 min.

    Explores the ideas and training methods behind two opposing movements in 20th-century theatre and cinema. Argues that British film and television acting is out of touch with these movements, being too...

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  9. Class of ‘62 (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    In the summer of 1962 form 5E of Sandford County Secondary School for Girls, Leeds, left school for the last time at the age of 15. The film reunites then 22 years later. Between them they have 30 marriages,...

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  10. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1984) (1984 Film)

    aka: Suena de una Noche de Verano

    Director
    Celestino Coronado
    Producer
    David Haughton; Lindsay Kemp
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...

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