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News Archive for June, 2014

  • Recent additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,550 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, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ The Dissolve This American website features reviews, commentary, interviews, and news about current films, while also […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – May 2014

    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 features two special forums. The Journal of Sport History has a forum on Filmic Sport History covering The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, historical sport films, […]

  • Student Participation in the Research Phase of Project Enriched Playlists

    For the research phase of the Jisc-funded Project Enriched Playlists we’re looking for 8 students (total number) from 8 different subject areas. We want to talk to you about your use of audio-visual materials (moving-image, audio and stills) within your Higher Education course and/or your research. These will take the form of telephone research interviews […]

  • CFP Critical Studies in Television: The Medical Issue (Summer 2016)

    Critical Studies in Television: The Medical Issue (Summer 2016) http://cstonline.tv/ Medical and health programmes have been a broadcasting staple since the early days of television, often providing educational and informative content as well as entertaining audiences. In Britain, this was fulfilled by a mixture of factual and entertainment programming ranging from long running surgery documentary […]

  • New on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,550 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, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Albanian Film Archive The Archive is making its holdings freely available online thanks to an ongoing […]

  • Symposium on Shakespeare and Education in the Digital Age

    This free to attend symposium on 25 June 2014 is organised by students of the University of York and the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. The event will be held from 10am to 5pm at the University of Birmingham’s main campus in Edgbaston, bringing together both new and expert researchers at an emerging hub of […]

  • Educational Recording Agency launches new website

    This week the ERA has launched an expanded and redesigned version of its website. It has also confirmed that the tariff for the new combined HE licence, incorporating both the standard ERA and Era Plus licences, will be £2.35 per full-time / full-time equivalent student. To learn more,  visit: www.era.org.uk/

  • CFP: Screen Plays Conference 2015

    Theatre and Television: Adaptation, Production, Performance A call for papers for a one-day conference at the University of Westminster, Friday 20 February 2015 Proposals should be submitted by Monday 30 June 2014. Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers (or three-paper panels) addressing issues and topics related to theatre plays on British television from 1930 to […]

  • Recent Additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,550 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, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ British Nutrition Foundation Video Podcasts These video podcasts focus on different aspects of food and nutrition. […]

  • Europeana Sounds website launched

    Scheduled to run from February 2014 to January 2017, Europeana Sounds is a project co-funded by the European Commission and the Europeana Sounds consortium, for a total budget of €6.14m (€4.91m EU contribution). The project is dedicated to opening up access to Europee’s shared sonic heritage, and celebrating the diversity and creativity of sound in […]