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  1. Tales out of School: The Fiction of Geoffrey Trease (1992 Video)

    Director
    Gina Marsh
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Out Of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1992 sale: £10.00

    Children’s author Geoffrey Trease, now in his 80s and about to finish his 102nd novel, talks about his career. He has been highly influential, setting new standards and establishing the profession as one...

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  2. Trotsky’s Home Movies (1992 Video)

    Director
    Oliver Curtis
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination. Shows most of the surviving 45 minutes of Trotsky’s daily life filmed by family and friends in 1939. A discussion follows.

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  3. Turbulent Landscapes: Chico Buarque’s Brazil (1992 Video)

    Director
    Alex Anderson
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.

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  4. White Girls on Dope (1992 Video)

    Director
    Red Saunders
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Drama about the cocaine scare in post-World War I London, in which the immigrant Chinese community became the scapegoats.

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  5. Writer in His Labyrinth, The: MÁrquez on Bolivar (1992 Video)

    Director
    Anjana Patel; Christopher Spencer
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    English language and literature; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    An investigation into the controversy surrounding Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel ‘The General in His Labyrinth’, which portrays Simóm Bolívar as a man plagued with bitter memories.

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  6. City of Joy (1991 Video)

    aka: Phantom of Joy

    Director
    Dilip Varma
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Concerns the controversy surrounding the Roland Joffe film ‘City of Joy’ which has been beset with charges of racism and media exploitation of poverty. Includes interviews with Joffe and actor Patrick...

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  7. African King, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Nigel Evans
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    About the illegal trade in Third-World art treasures, which is sustained by a large and complex international network of smugglers and dealers. Follows a trail of stolen 10th-17th century terracotta statues...

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  8. Aparna Sen (1990 Video)

    Director
    Dilip Varma
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Indian actress Aparna Sen talks from Calcutta about her transition to direction, the inspiration for her films and the funding of her work.

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  9. Architecture of Fear, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Jill Fullerton-Smith
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Examines Iraqi architecture and looks at the momuments which Saddam Hussein has erected in Baghdad to reflect his dictatorship.

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  10. Bugger Bromley (1990 Video)

    Director
    Christopher Spencer
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Hanif Kureishi looks at sex, race and politics in 1970s Britain, drawing on his novel ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’.

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