BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Independent, experimental video. A re-working of The Merchant of Venice, that includes text from Kathy Acker’s reinterpretation of the play. Makes extensive use of live and pre-recorded video, and employs...
Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...
Educational videotape. Casting often determines where an audience’s sympathy lies; choosing an actor to play a major role like Richard II or Bolingbroke can be a complex procedure, often requiring a...
Uses evidence from the lives and literature of six women writers - Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker - and the commonality and...
Includes Harriet Walter reading and discussing an extract from Timberlake Wertenbaker’s ‘Three Birds Alighting on a Field’ and a full production of Susan Glaspell’s ‘Trifles’. Also interviews...
A series of self-contained performance exercises, built around two scenes from Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’, primarily centred on the final scene of the play. This scene is presented by the same actors...
An introduction to Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Top Girls’, its production history. The full television production of the play, broadcast on BBC2 on 2 Nov 1991 and directed by Max Stafford-Clark, is shown....
Joan Copjec discusses ‘The Invention of Crying: Melodrama and Magnitude’, which explores the relationship between melodrama and certain representations of women within society. Slavoj Zizek discusses...
Professor Allan Gedalof and others discuss, analyse, and even perform literary works. The series aims to teach viewers to read critically, stressing the use of language, and provides analytical tools that...
The film is intended to challenge many widely held attitudes, beliefs and ideas. It examines questions of self-discovery, learning and understanding. A fashion model re-lives a day that changed her life. She...
You are currently searching in Find DVD. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '"gender representation"' in All fields.
Learning on Screen