The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye.

This month’s Roundup includes a special issue on Québec Cinema in the 21st Century in The American Review of Canadian Studies, including interviews, First Nations’ cinema, the National Film Board of Canada, and horror films.

Horror also features in European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945, as well as a chapter entitled, Remaking Fear: The Cultural Function of Horror Film Remakes by Christian Knöppler in Who’s Afraid of …? Facets of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Film. Articles include, Unlocking The Vampire Diaries: Genre, Authorship, and Quality in Teen TV Horror and Perfect Enemies: Neoconservative Hunters and Terrorist Vampires in Joe Ahearne’s Ultraviolet (1998).

The edited collection, News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe by Geoffrey Baym and Jeffrey P. Jones, includes material on  Australia, Italy and France and Channel 4’s own Brass Eye.

There is also an intriguing article by Guy Barefoot, “Always a Good Programme Here”: The Records of the Tudor Cinema, Leicester, 1924‐1932. 

Media Screen Roundup (Aug 2013) IHR-BUFVC (182KB PDF)