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A Special Day UK. Blu-ray and DVD. CultFilms. 102 mins. £14.99 About the reviewer: Dr Louis Bayman is Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. His principle specialisms are melodrama studies...
2013. GB. 2 x DVD. 400 minutes. Network Distributing. Certificate E. Price: £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr James McGrath lectures in Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. His poems appear in...
Joan Littlewood’s stage production Oh! What a Lovely War has long been a favourite with students and teachers. Long unavailable on home video, Richard Attenborough’s 1968 film adaptation in now out on as...
The Women’s Liberation Movement Oral History Project aims to provide a permanent archive on the pioneering work undertaken by feminists from the 1960s to the 1980s. Dr Margaretta Jolly, Reader in Cultural...
First screened on British television in October 1973, the documentary series The World at War proved to be a milestone in the history of ITV. Professor James Chapman explores its roots and its critical...
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...
From 1st August 2010 to 31st July 2011, the top 20 requests made from the Off Air Recording Back-Up Service are dominated by social care and economic issues. 1. HOW DO THEY DO IT? (FIVE) View TRILT...
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...
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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