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In the teens and twenties the members of the Pankhurst family became figureheads for the suffragette movement. Ceri Dingle describes the making of her new ‘crowd film’ about Sylvia Pankhurst. Dr Steven...
In partnership, the BBC, JISC and the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC), today announce the launch of Chronicle, a project to make BBC Northern Ireland's television news from the 1960s and...
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...
Depictions of the ancient world seem to be more prevalent that ever on television, home video and the cinema. Dr Marco Angelini of University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), looks at The Caesars (1968) and...
Trying to Get Over: African American Directors After Blaxploitation, 1977-1986 by Keith Corson,(University of Texas Press, 2016), 287 pages, ISBN: 9781477309087 (paperback), £22.99. About the...
Prof. James Chapman University of Leicester To understand the Inter-University History Film Consortium we must consider the contexts in which the organization emerged. In the late 1960s the teaching of...
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst (Reaktion Books, August 2015), 224 pages, 54 illustrations, ISBN 978-1780235288 (hardback), £16.00 About the reeviewer: Dr Emma Austin is a Senior Lecturer in...
The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol (Reaktion, 2013). 224 pages. ISBN: 978-1780231020 (paperback), £14.95 About the reviewer: Dr Catherine Haworth, Centre for the Study of Music, Gender...
Filmed warfare was a new phenomenon at the time of the First World War and it was months before the British authorities allowed cameramen up to the front line. David Walsh of the Imperial War Museum...
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