DVDs received February 2014

A Trip to the Moon : a Film by George Meĺies (1902) Dir: George Meĺies ; with original music by AIR.

Everything or Nothing : The Untold Story of 007 (2012) Dir: Stevan Riley ; 'The untold story of how Ian Fleming, Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman bought James Bond to the cinema screen.'

Hairspray (1988) Dir: John Waters ; starring Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller, Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora.

Inside Planet Earth (2008) Dir: Martin Williams ; 'This journey into the inside of the Earth is fascinating, alarming but also beautiful. Only a tiny fraction of Earth is accessible to humans so scientists have developed interesting experiments to explain the mysteries from the crust to the core. With the aid of stunning computer generated footage, Inside Planet Earth takes us on an amazing expedition of discovery.'

La Belle et la Bete (1946) Dir: Jean Cocteau ; starring Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Pareĺy, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair and Raoul Marco.

John Waters : This Filthy World (2006) Dir: Jeff Carlin ; 
featuring John Waters.

Manufactured Landscapes : a film by Jennifer Baichwal (2006) Dir: Jennifer Baichwal; 'Edward Burtynsky has gained international recognition for his photographs of what he calls 

manufactured landscapes. He argues that we have reached past the point now where we are at the mercy of the environment--our planet now lives and dies at our mercy. This is not meant to be a frightening concept, though many of the images are sobering, in this chilling but ultimately beautiful documentary on what industrialization is doing to man and the world as we know it. Or used to know it.'

Yellowstone (2009) Series Producer: Andrew Murray ; 'This landmark series reveals the grandeur of this fascinating place as its animals struggle to survive over the course of the vividly changing seasons.' 

More photography books recently received : contextualising the picture

Recently received items that focus on the theoretical, historical and social context of photographs and those who take them:

Azoulay, Ariella.(2008) The civil contract of photography. New York ; London; Cambridge, Mass: Zone Books.

Batchen, Geoffrey. (2012) Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis. London: Reaktion Books.

Bello, Patrizia di. (2012) The photobook : from Talbot to Ruscha and beyond. London: I.B. Tauris.

Bunnell. Peter C., (ed). (2012) Aperture magazine anthology : the Minor White years. London: Thames and Hudson. 

Bunnell, Peter C. (2009) Inside the photograph : writings on twentieth-century photography. New York: Apeture.

Couturier, Elizabeth. (2012) Talk about contemporary photography. Paris: Flammarion.

Dyer, Geoff. (2012) The ongoing moment. Edinburgh: Canongate.

Elkins, James. (2011) What photography is. New York: Routledge.

Flusser, Vilem. (2000) Towards a philosophy of photography. London: Reaktion.

Garcia, Erin C. (2010) Photography as fiction. Los Angeles: J Paul Getty Museum.

Hacking, Juliet., (ed). (2012) Photography : the whole story. London : Thames and Hudson.

Kamber, Michael. (2013) Photojournalists on war : the untold stories from Iraq. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Miller, Ken. (2009) Shoot : photography of the moment. New York: Rizzoli.

Ritchin, Fred. (2010) After photography. New York: W. W. Norton.

Ritchin, Fred (2013) Bending the frame : photojournalism, documentary and the citizen. New York: Aperture.

Soutter, Lucy. (2013) Why art photography? London: Routledge.

Ward, Ossian. (2013) State of the art photography. Dusseldorf: Richter.