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

Of special note in this months’ Roundup are a number of special issues. The journal Le Temps des medias has a special issue entitled Espionnage which includes articles on The West Wing, 1960s British and American TV series and French spy films.  Literature and history has an issue entitled Cinema and Modernism and contains articles about official First World War films, British documentary cinema, and Ulysses and early cinema.  Joyce and early cinema, along with H. G. Wells, also feature in another issue of Literature and History in an article entitled, “Sperrits in the Furniture”: Wells, Joyce and Animation, Before and After 1910, by Keith Williams

While the journal, MLN, features a special issue Philosophy and New American TV Series covering  Buffy, The West Wing, Justified, and Mad Men.

For those interested in British cinema there is Steven Fielding’s, British Politics and Cinema’s Historical Dramas, 1929–1938; Durkin’s, Remembering Slavery on Screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936), and Coman’s, Screens of Disorder: English Cinema’s Representation of Teachers’ Responses to Challenges to Their Authority in the 1960s

There is also a review of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England released on multiple media platforms on 5^th July.

Media screen roundup (June 2013) IHR-BUFVC (160Kb PDF)