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  1. Identity (2013)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

    Identity examines the works and artistic of artist Bruce Nauman, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin and Louise Bourgeois as an exploration of identity, stereotyping, self-awareness, and the familliar versus the...

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  2. Body of Work (2011)

    Director
    Jo Ann Kaplan
    Producer
    Fiz Oliver
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 119 minutes), £21.00

    This collection of films by Jo Ann Kaplan comprises a selection of her most personal work, as well as her biographical film about Maya Deren. MAYA DEREN: INVOCATION is narrated by Helen Mirren, with original...

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  3. Lost Civilizations (10 Parts) (2005)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

    Filmed over a 3 year period in 26 countries, this 10 volume set depicts the events, legends, ceremonies and customs of the lost ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Mayas, Mesopotamia, the Aegean, Greece,...

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  4. Katia et Volodia and Maia. (Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev and Maya Plisetskaya (2005)

    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0), £17.99

    Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, on the careers of great dancers. The first is on the great Russian dancers Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev, the second on the...

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  5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2001)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 96 minutes), $9.94

    An American television adaptation of the book by poet Maya Angelou of her memories of the hardships, private joys and public pleasures of growing up in the Depression-era South. Ostracized by the social and...

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  6. Aztecs and the Mayans, The: A Journey Back in Time (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the the Aztecs, whose architectural legacy is found in modern Mexico City, and the Mayans, who built some of the worlds great temples, including Chichen Itza and Copan. Uses location footage,...

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  7. Maya Deren: Dance Films (1997)

    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (individual); £60.00 (institutional)

    Selections from the series of dance films made by the American avant-garde film-maker Maya Deren in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains Talley Beatty’s A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Frank...

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  8. Five Authors (1995)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 25 minutes), £19.99 (together)

    Five 25-minute programmes, each on an individual author, looking at one or more substantial texts and exploring the different ways in such works are written. Authors are Sylvia Plath (autobiography in...

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  9. Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio PalopÓ (1991 Video)

    Director
    Bruce MacDonald
    Producer
    Bruce MacDonald
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Mayan Indians of the village of San Antonio Palopó on the shores of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala live in much the same way as their 16th-century Mayan ancestors. Yet, with economic development, things are...

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  10. Very Eye of Night, The (1959 Film)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Maya Deren explains her film as ‘a ballet of night, entirely in the negative, in which the dancers are constellations which orbit and revolve in the night sky’.

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