A Diamond Select Release! The year 2015 brings many advancements according to the blockbuster Back to the Future series
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Return to the disco days of the 1980s in this exclusive collection featuring ALL NEW ARTWORK that celebrates Generation X&s neon dream decade & the movies that defined it Grammy Award-winning video producer Michael Nesmith presents this outrageous comedy combining the seedy world of automobile repossession with science fiction The off-the-wall anything goes tale features a crazed ensemble led by Harry Dean Stanton & Emilio Estevez Language English Number of disks 1 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Arguably the defining cult film of the Reagan era the feature debut of Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy Walker Straight to Hell) is a genre-busting mash-up of atomic-age science fiction post-punk anarchism & conspiracy paranoia all shot through with heavy doses of deadpan humour & offbeat philosophy After quitting his dead-end supermarket job young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) is initiated as a "repo man" after a chance encounter with automobile repossessor Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) An illicit high-voltage life follows including an adrenalised search for a mysterious &64 Chevy Malibu loaded with radioactive
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- cargo With an iconic soundtrack (Iggy Pop Black Flag Suicidal Tendencies) stunning Robby Muller cinematography & iconoclastic direction Repo Man remains one of the great debuts of the 1980s Actors Emilio Estevez Harry Dean Stanton Vonetta Mc Gee Miguel Sandoval Tracey Walter Olivia Barash & Fox Harris Director Alex Cox Certificate 18 years & over Year 1984 Screen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 32 minutes (approx)


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Otto (Emilio Estevez) a young LA punk becomes the protege of Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) a crusty car repossessor Otto soon comes to challenge his mentor for a £20000 repo prize
- a &64 Chevy Malibu driven by J Frank Parnell (Fox Harris) a lobotomized nuclear scientist The Malibu is being madly pursued by ruthless government agents UFO cultists & the infamous Rodriguez Brothers In the trunk is an unthinkable glowing object that could change the course of our civilisation
- overnight Actors Emilio Estevez Harry Dean Stanton Vonetta Mc Gee Miguel Sandoval Tracey Walter Olivia Barash & Fox Harris Director Alex Cox Certificate 18 years & over Year 1984 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles Arabic ; Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Russian ; Spanish ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 29 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men humans have extended & enhanced our lives through highly sophisticated & expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property…with no concern for your comfort or survival Jude Law plays Remy one of the best organ repo men in the business When he suffers a cardiac failure on the job he awakens to find himself fitted with the company’s top-of-the-line heart-replacement…as well as a hefty debt But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart’s no longer in the job When he can’t make the payments The Union sends its toughest enforcer Remy’s former partner Jake (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker) to track him down Now that the hunter has become the hunted Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga) another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system And as he & Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends & foes one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run ...

The first novel in the Lindsay Gordon series
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The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images that are created & the feeling of the illustrator&s presence on location Comparable in some ways to photojournalism reportage illustrators are acting as visual journalists proactively creating narrative work about issues & subjects translating what they witness into handmade imagery There is evidence that illustrations connect to people in powerful ways whether they are drawings created while embedded with troops in Afghanistan documenting during a courtroom trial or recreating the energy of the crowd at a rock concert This area of applied illustration also provides career opportunities for students & takes them out of the classroom & into different environments & situations With practical information about tools techniques & coping in various situations as well as inspirational interviews & advice from reportage artists working in the field this book will fill a gap in this growing market ...

How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy & informed citizenship But how informative are the news media during campaigns? What kind of logic do they follow? How well do they serve citizens?e Based on original research as well as the most comprehensive assessment of election studies to date Cushion & Thomas examine how campaigns are reported in many advanced Western democracies In doing so they engage with debates about the mediatization of politics media systems information environments media ownership regulation political news horserace journalism objectivity impartiality agenda-setting & the relationship between media & democracy more generally Focusing on the most recent US & UK election campaigns they consider how the logic of election coverage could be rethought in ways that better serve the democratic needs of citizens Above all they argue that election reporting should be driven by a public logic where the agenda of voters takes centre stage in the campaign & the policies of respective political parties receive more airtime & independent scrutiny The book is essential reading for scholars & students in political communication & journalism studies political science media & communication studies ...

Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question & critically analyze institutional & media texts & images This long-awaited second edition updates & refreshes the approaches to representation signalling key developments in the field addresses the emergence of new technologies media formats politics & theories

Includes:: an entirely new chapter on celebrity culture & reality TV offers new exercises readings images & examples for a new generation of students This book once again provides an indispensible resource for students & teachers in cultural & media studies

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This book is written for anyone who is interested in how a field of research evolves & the fundamental role of understanding uncertainties involved in different levels of analysis ranging from macroscopic views to meso- & microscopic ones We introduce a series of computational & visual analytic techniques from research areas such as text mining deep learning information visualization & science mapping such that readers can apply these tools to the study of a subject matter of their choice In addition we set the diverse set of methods in an integrative context that draws upon insights from philosophical sociological & evolutionary theories of what drives the advances of science such that the readers of the book can guide their own research with their enriched theoretical foundations Scientific knowledge is complex A subject matter is typically built on its own set of concepts theories methodologies & findings discovered by generations of researchers & practitioners Scientific knowledge as known to the scientific community as a whole experiences constant changes Some changes are long-lasting whereas others may be short lived How can we keep abreast of the state of the art as science advances? How can we effectively & precisely convey the status of the current science to the general public as well as scientists across different disciplines? The study of scientific knowledge in general has been overwhelmingly focused on scientific knowledge per se In contrast the status of scientific knowledge at various levels of granularity has been largely overlooked This book aims to highlight the role of uncertainties in developing a better understanding of the status of scientific knowledge at a particular time & how its status evolves over the course of the development of research Furthermore we demonstrate how the knowledge of the types of uncertainties associated with scientific claims serves as an integral & critical part of our domain expertise ...