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  1. Romantic Spirit, The (2011)

    Director
    Daniel Lander
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 420 minutes), $39.49

    A fourteen-part documentary television series made in 1983 about the history of the Romantic movement in art,music and literature on 7 DVDs. Individual programmes are: BATTLE OF T HE STAGE- Plays of...

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  2. Jane Eyre (2006) (2007)

    Director
    Susanna White
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 330 minutes), £24.99

    BBC adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, with Ruth Wilson as the heroine. The dramatisation races through the earlier passages of the novel such as Jane’s miserable childhood, but there is a...

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  3. Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns (2004)

    aka: Mark Twain: A Film by Ken Burns

    Director
    Ken Burns
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 210 minutes), £19.99

    A documentary by Ken Burns, the fifth part of his PBS television series ‘American Lives’. Looks at the life and work of Mark Twain, using archival photography and interviews with writers including Russel...

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  4. Rain (2003)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £5.99

    Film adaptation of the short story by Somerset Maugham about the prostitute Sadie Thompson.

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  5. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 118 minutes), £5.99

    Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel featuring Robert De Niro as the creature.

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  6. Dark Angel, The (1993)

    aka: Uncle Silas

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 148 minutes), $4.99

    An American television adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Victorian thriller, ‘Uncle Silas’. NB This title is currently only available in America (on NTSC video) and can thus only be purchased by...

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  7. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1993)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £12.99

    Francis Ford Coppola’s big budget, visually sumptious adaptation starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins.

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  8. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and the Mississippi: A Video Commentary (1988)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £95.00 [University rate]

    Gives students background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee Schlesinger, Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Purchase....

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  9. Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise (1986)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), $39.00 ($89.00 institiutional use)

    From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated...

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  10. Winter Journey, A (1976)

    Director
    Clive Gunnell
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £10.00

    Clive Gunnell’s film depicts an incident in Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ during which Tess goes on a long walk through the Dorset countryside looking for her husband. The film...

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