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  1. Borough of Kings (2000 Film)

    aka: Brooklyn Sonnet

    Director
    Elyse Lewin
    Producer
    Elyse Lewin; Chris Brinker; Patrick Newall

    Independent feature film. Jimmy (Stanek) is eager to escape his apparent future as a low-level mobster in his Brooklyn neighbourhood. He aspires to be an actor and auditions for a role in a Shakespearean...

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  2. Lost, Lost, Lost (200)

    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL SECAM, 180 minutes), 56 Euros (+p&p)

    Diaries, notes and sketches filmed 1949-1963, edited 1976. Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas invented the diary form of filmmaking. Born in Lithuania in 1922, and displaced from his...

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  3. New York: Making Connections (1999)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Despite stiff competition from elsewhere, New York has remained one of the world’s premier cities. Focusing on the economic connections that are concentrated on New York, the programme first shows how the...

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  4. Harlem in the Sixties (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Harlem was one of the flashpoints of the 1960s, a place where counter-culture, protest and opposition to entrenched political interest and repressive social structures exploded in riots and civil unrest. In...

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  5. Reinventing the City (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Vic Lockwood
    Subject
    Architecture; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2001 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores the local and global forces that have directed and shaped the urban development of New York and Los Angeles over the last 30 years. Examines Battery Park City and the 42nd Street project in New...

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  6. Wearing the Green (1994 Video)

    Director
    Arthur McCaig
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

    Portrays a number of prisoners and ex-prisoners of the New York state prison system. Some of them have organised to reform the prison system, including Eddie Ellis, a former ‘Black Panther’ imprisoned...

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  7. Public Murals in New York (1993 Video)

    Producer
    G D Jayalakshmi
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    At the height of the Great Depression in the USA, President Franklin D Roosevelt promised the people a New Deal. The Works Project Administration (WPA) employed artists within the Federal Art Project, part...

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  8. Robert Motherwell and the New York School (1991)

    Director
    Catherine Tatge
    Producer
    Catherine Tatge
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 56 minutes), £14.95

    In a programme made shortly before his death, Robert Motherwell, one of the chief protagonists of the New York school, this film recalls the ‘heroic age’ of American abstract expressionism, tracing the...

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  9. Skyscraper (4 Parts) (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA (compilation video?)

    A record of the building of a 47-storey, 7OO-foot tall skyscraper, Worldwide Plaza, in New York City, showing the evolution of the project from the initial design through all it construction stages to its...

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  10. Kiss Me, Petruchio (1989 Film)

    Director
    Christopher Dixon
    Producer
    Joseph Papp
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution (2006)

    A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews...

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