Learning on ScreenNews Archive for June, 2011
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Latest Gateway additions
Published: 14 June 2011Conspiracy Documentaries Conspiracy Documentaries was set up in 2009 to provide a 1-stop source for the best conspiracy documentaries on the net. All films are free to watch and are sorted into categories such as assassinations, banking, Big Brother/police state, 9/11, 7/7, environment, energy & fuels, health/drugs, media, mind control, political, religions, secret societies, space, […]
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Emerging talent (Part 1)
Published: 14 June 2011In the wake of the interest around Film4 productions such as Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, a recent Guardian article by Jane Graham identifies what she sees as a trend of innovative films made by “industry outsiders with little or no formal training [in filmmaking]”. According to Graham, the forays of […]
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Shakespeare roundup
Published: 7 June 20111. Much Ado About Nothing (1967) As part of a section devoted to Rediscovered TV Drama, referring to the well-publicised cash of TV programmes repatriated recently from the the Library of Congress in the US, Screenonline has published a brief analysis by Michael Brooke of the 1967 TV version of the Zeffirelli production of MUCH […]
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 7 June 2011For the week ending 3 June 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service focus on BBC documentaries dealing with health, the environment and the economy. 1. UNDERCOVER CARE: THE ABUSE EXPOSED (BBC1) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information please visit the BBC website 2. WINDFARM […]
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Radioplayer
Published: 7 June 2011In last year’s preview we looked foreword to the release of the new Radioplayer, which has now been formally launched. Radioplayer, backed by the BBC and commercial radio stations including Global Radio, GMG Radio, Absolute Radio and RadioCentre, was launched at the beginning of May and has already recorded 5.7 million listeners. Radioplayer is an […]
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Audio Theatre roundup
Published: 3 June 20111. British Library Audiovisual Theatre: Past, Present, Future In the June 2011 edition of Viewfinder we include an article by Stephen Cleary, Lead Curator of Drama Recordings at the British Library, in which he looks at the past, present and future of the BL’s audiovisual materials relating to live theatre which goes back several decades […]
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Reith Lectures online
Published: 3 June 2011The BBC has updated its Reith Lectures microsite. At present 194 broadcasts are available, with the earliest recording being Frank Fraser Darling’s broadcasts from 1969. The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation’s first director-general. […]
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International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011
Published: 2 June 201112th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011 23 – 26 June 2011 – UCL, Roberts building, London www.raifilmfest.org.uk Meet us on FACEBOOK This festival is sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), The Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL), and InSight Education. The programme is now available online: http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2011/home/programme Register online: http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2011/home/registrations Festival […]
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 2 June 2011For the week ending 27 May 2011 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service focus on the state of the nation’s health with programmes focusing on prisons, social services, its commercial prospects and conception. 1. WHO’D BE A SOCIAL WORKER? (BBC Radio 4) View TRILT Record or watch now on BoB National […]
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Documentary and Performance Symposium
Published: 1 June 2011This one-day event hosted by the Film Studies programme at the University of Surrey on Friday 16th September aims to explore performance in the context of documentary and moving-image documentation. How do theories of documentary and the theorisation of performance interact? What are the ethics and aesthetics of recording performances? How does the documentary form […]
