It’s difficult enough keeping up with moving image research in dedicated journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television but what about all those interesting ones that slip through the net because they’re the odd film one in a history or social science publication? Simon Baker of the Institute of Historical Research has put together a monthly compilation of articles (and books) which makes for fascinating reading. BUFVC will post them as a downloadable pdf every month together with my (Linda Kaye) personal highlights, so I’m flagging the non-fiction/news/experimental film bias up at the beginning!

Film & TV Publications-September 2012 (162kb PDF)

Here are some that look worth delving into…

“The Documentary Film Movement and the Spaces of British Identity”, Twentieth Century British History 23 (1). http://tcbh.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/1/1

Birtwistle, Andy. 2012. ‘Douglas Gordon and Cinematic Audiovisuality in the Age of Television: Experiencing the Experience of Cinema’. Visual Culture in Britain 13 (1): 101–113. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14714787.2012.641780

Green, Anna, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Hunter. 2011. ‘Woodberry Down Housing Estate: Community Representation and Advocacy in Print and Film’. Oral History 39 (2): 107–116. http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/journals/journal_indexes/39A2.php

Majumdar, Rochona. 2012. ‘Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society Movement in India’. Modern Asian Studies 46 (3): 731–767. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8525874