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  1. Mathematics Goes to the Movies (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Mathematics

    An enormous amount of our leisure time is spent interacting with the media, watching television and movies. Much of the space on our computers (and on the Internet) is taken up with static and moving images,...

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  2. Abu Ammar is Coming (2016)

    Director
    Naeem Mohaiemen
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Film

    A photograph showing five men: four stare out of a window, one looks at the camera. The light has a soft glow. The stage is a bombed building. All five men wear military clothes. Abu Ammar was the nom de...

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  3. From Eastenders to Hollywood: Antonia Bird (2016)

    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Television studies

    Documentary about director and producer Antonia Bird whose career spanned theatre, television and film, taking her from the Royal Court Theatre to the BBC and eventually a career in Hollywood. [90 minutes]

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  4. See What I See (2015)

    aka: Shakespeare on Film

    Producer
    Richard Paul
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies

    Podcast. Episode 26 in the series. Professor Samuel Crowl Professor of English at Ohio University and the author of A Norton Guide to Shakespeare and Film, Shakespeare at the Cineplex, and Shakespeare...

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  5. Michael’s Theme (2014)

    Director
    Katryn Elkin
    Subject
    Television studies

    Using previously unbroadcast fragments from the opening and closing of several episodes in the first two series of Parkinson from the 1970s, this experimental work explores the talk-show convention of...

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  6. Useful Life, A (2014)

    Director
    Federico Veiroj
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

    Fiction film about a film-programmer who is forced to change his way of life when the cinémathèque where he works is closed down. The character of Jorge is played by real-life film critic Jorge Jellinek.

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  7. Story of Children and Film, A (2014)

    Director
    Mark Cousins
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £15.99

    Mark Cousins tells the story of children in film through a selection of clips from 53 films from 23 different countries.

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  8. Life Itself (2014)

    Director
    Steve James
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 118 minutes), £11.00

    Steve James creates a portrait of influential Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert. Officially an adaptation of Ebert’s bestselling memoir of the same name, the documentary uses Ebert’s struggle...

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  9. Making of ‘Shakespeare: Found in Translation’, The (2014)

    aka: Shakespeare: Found in Translation: Behind the Scenes

    Director
    Sam Dore
    Subject
    Drama

    A behind-the-scenes film in which the team behind the documentary ‘Shakespeare: Found in Translation’ explain how they approached the making of their film.

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  10. Cinema in the 21st Century, The: Art-Form or a Form of Life? (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; Media studies

    The subject of Elsaesser’s lecture is the question of whether it makes sense to consider the cinema under a somewhat different aspect from the approaches that have dominated discussion in the first...

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