British Universities Film & Video Council

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News Archive for November, 2012

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 23 November 2012, the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include coverage of such topics as health, art, poverty and the history of British broadcasting. 1. 90 BY 90 THE FULL SET (RADIO 4 EXTRA) View TRILT record or listen now on BoB National For more information please visit […]

  • Leveson Report published

    Lord Justice Leveson published his Report into the culture, practices and ethics of the press on Thursday 29 November 2012. Hardcopies of the Executive Summary (£16) and the full report in four volumes (£250) can be ordered from The Stationary Office shop: www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp To download the summary and the four (large) volumes of the report […]

  • VIEW Journal # 2

    VIEW, the Journal of European Television History and Culture is the first peer-reviewed, multi-media and open access e-journal in the field of European television history and culture. It offers an international platform for outstanding academic research and archival reflection on television as an important part of our European cultural heritage. The second issue of the […]

  • British Museum launches video on-demand service

    Today the British Museum launched its own TV channel, available to all BT Vision subscribers. The channel will show a mixture of documentaries in both long and short forms produced by the British Museum on a wide range of subjects – topics include Journeys of Faith, Great Leaders, Stories of the World, Contemporary Artists and […]

  • Monarchy and New Media conference

    The end of the Diamond Jubilee year affords an opportunity to look back and examine a neglected aspect of the history of the monarchy: the engagement with new forms of media. The British Library, in collaboration with the Royal Archives and the IHR, has curated a special collection of archived web resources, available as part […]

  • Winter Viewfinder published

    Viewfinder 89 is now out and includes articles on Open Resources, Universal Shakespeare, marketing education, 30 years of Channel 4 and more.

  • BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests

    For the week ending 16th November 2012, the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include coverage of such topics as history, music, philosophy and adaptations of books by Charles Dickens and Zadie Smith. 1. THE CHOIR: SING WHILE YOU WORK (BBC2) View TRILT Record or watch now on BoB National For more information please go […]

  • NEW WORK NEWCASTLE: art/film crossovers, Part 3

     Innovation and Feature Films So does Channel 4’s interest and involvement in an initiative like Northern Film & Media’s The Artist’s Cut represent evidence of a renewed enthusiasm on the part of the channel for artists’ film? This is undoubtedly too bold or premature a claim to make at this early stage but there are […]

  • Eugène Vernier: fashion, femininity & form

    Eugène Vernier: fashion, femininity & form, with essays by Robin Muir and Becky E. Conekin, was published in hardback by Hirmer Publishers on Monday 19th November price £39.95, (220 pages, 200 illustrations 23 x 28 cm, hardcover ISBN 3-7774-5151-0). Trade distribution in the UK and Ireland is through Orca Book Services, Poole, Dorset, UK. Fashion, […]

  • Latest additions to the Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,250 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Chemicum A collection of over 100 videos showing chemistry experiments made […]