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  1. Face Value (1981 Video)

    Director
    Jo Spence
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

    Former British commercial photographer Jo Spence presents the photographs in her ‘family snapshot album’ and questions how and why women value images of themselves.

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  2. Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joanne Grant
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using the life of Ella Baker as a connecting thread, traces the history of the US civil rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Ella Baker’s political career was intertwined with most of the events of...

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  3. Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women (1979 Film, Video)

    Director
    Jean Kilbourne
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    New version (1991): STILL KILLING US SOFTLY Takes advertisements from magazines, newspapers, record covers and shopfront windows to present specific examples of the ways in which advertisements reinforce...

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  4. Some American Feminists (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Using filmed interviews and newsreel footage, constructs a picture of the women’s movement since 1968 as seen through the eyes of six feminists: Ti Grace Atkinson, Kate Millett, Betty Friedan, Rita Mae...

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  5. To Be a Woman (1951 Film, Video)

    Director
    Jill Craigie
    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A documentary about women’s employment, showing footage of women at work together, together with archive material on women’s struggles for equality. Promotes the positive values of women as part of the...

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  6. Maya Deren (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A compilation of the short, experimental films of Maya Deren. Includes MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943), AT LAND (1944), A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA (1945), RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946) and...

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  7. Meditation on Violence (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In this film Maya Deren sought to represent the philosophical attitudes behind several closely-related forms of martial art. The film consists entirely of sequences of a Chinese boxer demonstrating the...

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  8. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Maya Deren weaves together her interest in dance with the exploration of myth and symbol. Dance becomes a metaphor for courtship and sexual union from which ‘the widow’ flees at the end of the film,...

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  9. Study in Choreography for the Camera, A (1945 Film, Video)

    aka: Choreography for the Camera

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Maya Deren combines film and dance, collaborating with dancer Talley Beatty to make a ‘film-dance’.

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  10. At Land (1944 Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A trance-like film tracing the conflict between a woman and her environment. At the start of the film the woman (played by Maya Deren) is washed up on a beach and then goes on an anxious odyssey through a...

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