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  1. Queen (2019)

    Director
    Katryn Elkin
    Subject
    Film studies; Women’s studies

    In this "pregnancy and baby" video, as the artist describes it, Elkin tackles, with humour and irreverence, issues around motherhood, labour and creation, personal biography, being an artist and the...

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  2. Mic Drop (2017)

    Director
    Keith Piper
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 12 minutes), On request

    When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the 1980s rap scene, it signals the point when words reach...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Go West Young Man (1996)

    Director
    Keith Piper
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 4 minutes), On request

    Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal / historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black...

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  6. Making News (1982)

    Director
    Terry Flaxton
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 37 minutes), £120.00 (Lux)

    Concerns media coverage of the 1982 health workers’ dispute. Reveals how a stereotyped image of health workers was conveyed by television and the newspapers. The story is told by three groups of health...

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