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

Last month’s Roundup featured a special issue on the cinema of Quebec; a change of continent for this month’s edition takes us to South Africa and a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies. Articles include the reception of Birth of a Nation in Britain and South Africa, the newsreel African Mirror 1910-1948, and an analysis of Chisoko the African (1949).

The continuing Middle-Eastern crises is reflected in two articles, ‘“Mom, I’m Home”: Israeli Lebanon-War Films as Inadvertent Preservers of the National Narrative’, and  ‘Creating Geographies of Hope through Film: Performing Space in Palestine-Israel’.

Science-fiction is represented by the book by James Chapman and Nicholas Cull, Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema, which covers production histories of some of the most iconic films from the 1930s onwards. There is Leitch’s book, Doctor Who in Time and Space: Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012. As well as McGrath’s, Religion and Science Fiction which includes chapters on Star Wars, Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica.

Finally, Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media: Historical Perspectives edited by Siân Nicholas covers a whole range of film and television panics from unmarried mothers, the police, enemy collaboration during the Second World War, and the Clockwork Orange controversy.

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