Learning on ScreenNews Archive for November, 2013
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Take our survey on the BBC archives
Published: 11 November 2013We are currently working with Jisc on an important research project to establish which programmes and other items (e.g. documentation, photographs and sheet music) from the BBC archives would be of greatest value for the purposes of teaching and research in further and higher education. To ensure we get this right, we would like your view on which […]
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests
Published: 8 November 2013For the week ending 1 Nov 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. THE INVENTION OF CHILDHOOD (BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA) View TRILT record For more information, please go to the BBC website 2. PAUL MERTON’S WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF EARLY CINEMA (BBC4) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National For more information, please go to the […]
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Media Screen Roundup – October 2013
Published: 7 November 2013The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Shakespeare features in this month’s edition, there is Aebischer’s Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare; Sara Brown’s Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance, and an […]
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Recent additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway
Published: 7 November 2013The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,450 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/ Ask the Techies This series of podcasts and accompanying videos explains aspects of technology, specialising […]
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Bristol Radical Film Festival 2014: Call for Films
Published: 7 November 2013Bristol Radical Film Festival 3-9 March 2014 http://bristolradicalfilmfestival.org.uk/ The Bristol Radical Film Festival returns with another packed programme of oppositional documentary and fiction film from around the world. Opening at The Cube Microplex, Bristol’s volunteer-run not-for-profit cinema, the festival tours a variety of progressive, community-based spaces before culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops […]
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Small Screen Scotland Conference
Published: 6 November 2013Small Screen Scotland | Day Conference 26 November 2013 Royal Society of Edinburgh Twitter: @NaturalScotFilm Web: www.naturalscotlandfilms.org.uk/ To book: http://smallscreenscotland.eventbrite.com/ Television has a unique role in putting Scotland on screen: it can span multiple genres and forms – from the natural history documentary, factual or educational series to scripted drama and comedy. And equally importantly, […]
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Ofcom research event
Published: 6 November 2013Ofcom research event: new findings on children and parents’ media use and attitudes 20 November 2013, 3–5.30pm Ofcom, Riverside House, London SE1 9HA Ofcom is holding a research event on children and parents’ media use and attitudes, which will take place on Wednesday 20 November 2013 from 3 to 5.30pm, at Ofcom’s offices in Riverside […]
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Multicultural Shakespeare in Britain
Published: 6 November 2013Multicultural Shakespeare: 1930-2010 is a three- year, AHRC-funded research project based at the University of Warwick’s Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Collaborating with theatres around the country, it will build a database of British black and Asian Shakespearean performances (BBA Shakespeare) as well as an oral history archive of interviews with actors, directors and […]
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Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-fiction Film
Published: 5 November 201325 November 2013 18.45-20.15 Conference Centre, British Library Price: £4 / £3 concessions Book ticketes here Charles Urban is one of the most important figures in early British and America cinema. Widely celebrated in his day, he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural […]
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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests
Published: 4 November 2013For the week ending 25 October 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. CENTURY OF THE SELF (BBC2) View TRILT record For more information, please read following article 2. BRINGING UP BABY (CHANNEL 4) View TRILT record For more information, please go to the C4 website 3. DON’T CALL ME CRAZY (BBC3) View TRILT record or watch now on BoB National […]
