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In March 2014 Channel 4 promised to let viewers share live the experience of being an astronaut on the International Space Station. Dr Michael Allen, Birkbeck, University of London, considers the perils and...
In the late 1920s David Lean started out as a tea boy/runner at Gaumont's studios at Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush. After a variety of jobs he finally helped to cut an early sound feature film directed by...
Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaption by Xavier Aldana Reyes, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 241 pages, ISBN: 978-1137306005, (hardback), £66.99 About the reviewer: Dr Leon...
Data has been gathered on the British cinema newsreels for academic study since 1969, and under the care of the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) since 1974. What is now called News on...
Filming the Middle Ages by Bettina Bildhauer (Reaktion Books, 2011), 264 pages, ISBN: 978-1861898081 (hardback), £25 About the reviewer: Dr Lesley Coote is a lecturer in medieval studies, medievalism and...
A new digital resource from the BUFVC brings together the first twenty years of the ground-breaking pre-broadcast information packages from Channel 4 online (http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/c4pp). Linda Kaye,...
Theatreland: Behind the Scenes at London’s Theatre Royal, Haymarket. GB. DVD. 2009. 480 minutes. £9.99 About the reviewer: Mark Taylor-Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of...
FutureLearn, wholly owned by The Open University, is the first UK-led provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs). We speak to Simon Nelson, its CEO. Question: How did you get involved in MOOCs?...
Edited by Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes (British Film Institute / Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), 326 pages, ISBN: 978-1-844573844 (paperback). Price: £ 18.99 About the Author: Giulia Baso is a PhD...
The Artist's Cut On 12th October Northern Film & Media & Channel 4 previewed the first fruits of the Artist's Cut initiative (see Part 1 of this article) - two new shorts by contemporary visual...