Learning on ScreenNews Archive for May, 2013
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 17 May 2013For the week ending 3rd May 2013, the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service focus almost entirely on british film and TV. 1. BBC NEWS (BBC1) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the BBC website 2. LONDON’S HOLLYWOOD (ITV1) View TRILT record For more information, please go to […]
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Kate Iles – Challenging Times on Channel 4
Published: 16 May 2013In September 1992 Channel 4 put an ad in Broadcast calling for a production company to run their latest scheme for attracting new, young talent to the Channel – a film competition, aimed at young writers and directors to be sponsored by Lloyds Bank and commissioned by the Youth Department. I was running a fledgling […]
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New additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway
Published: 15 May 2013The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,350 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/ Access Agriculture This website showcases agricultural training videos, specifically aimed at […]
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Black and Asian performers working in Shakespeare
Published: 14 May 2013Telling the untold history of Black and Asian performers working in Shakespeare in the UK is the subject of the latest film from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The film British Black and Asian Shakespeare: Writing a History traces how the theatre reflects changes in wider society. The release of the film coincides […]
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Radical Film Symposium – 13th June 2013
Published: 13 May 2013A TIME FOR INVENTION: a symposium of radical filmmaking 13 June 2013 · 10:30 to 18:00 The Void, Owen Level 2, Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences · Media Arts http://atimeforinventionsymposium.eventbrite.co.uk/ The late 60’s and 70’s saw the development of documentary film collectives in the UK that addressed the burning political […]
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New articles and reviews at Viewfinder Online
Published: 10 May 2013Viewfinder Online aggregates some of the content from the Viewfinder print magazine but also published new and original material. Some of the latest items published on the site include: We Need to Talk about Dying Someone in Britain dies every minute but many risk missing out on having their end of life wishes met due […]
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Media Screen Roundup – April 2013
Published: 10 May 2013The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. For those readers who enjoy CSI (and all its many variations) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ran a special issue on “Forensic Cultures” which included Forensic Fictions: Science, […]
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13th Festival of Ethnographic Film
Published: 8 May 201313th RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2013 13-16 June to Sunday 16th June 2013 at Edinburgh University www.raifilmfest.org.uk The festival is jointly hosted by the National Museums of Scotland and STAR (Scottish Training in Anthropological Research, a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews) and cosponsored by the Center for […]
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV & Radio Programme Requests
Published: 7 May 2013For the week ending 26th April 2013, the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service feature Art, Food Hygiene, Weather, Health and the history of Television. 1. ALEX POLIZZI – THE FIXER (BBC2) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the BBC website 2. KEEPING BRITAIN ALIVE: THE NHS […]
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Recent additions to the Moving Image Gateway
Published: 7 May 2013The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,350 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/ Bibledex This website, which is hosted by Nottingham University, consists of […]
