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Messages from Poland: Using, losing and resurrecting 'A Different World' In 1987 Channel 4 broadcast the nine-part documentary series, The Struggles for Poland. One of its parts, A Different World, is now...
Michael Darlow is a television director, writer and producer, who has also worked in theatre and film. He writes about television, theatre and film and also about rare breed Soay sheep. We interviewed...
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...
By Peter Krämer. Controversies series. (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2011). 165 pages. ISBN 978-0230302129 (paperback). Price: £12.99 About the author: Dr Sian Barber is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the...
As Channel 4 draws the curtain on the eleven-year success of the Big Brother franchise, it continues to reap the rewards of being the producer of some of the most popular shows on television, including...
In November 1982 I was working as Assistant TV Acquisitions Officer in the National Film Archive at the British Film Institute and freelancing for Time Out and a range of magazines and newspapers about...
A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown (BFI Publishing, October 2007), 368 pages, ISBN: 9781844572052 (paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1844572045 (hardback), £50.00 Channel 4: The...
100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant (Palgrave Macmillan / British Film Institute, 2013). 216 pages. ISBN 978-1844574575 (paperback). £16.99 About the reviewer: James Chapman is Professor of Film...
JS: Aside from your established track record in television, you’d done a stint as Head of the BFI Production Board in the late 1970s. Was film always a personal passion? What were your reasons for...
Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line Edited by Dina Iordanova and Stuart Cunningham (St Andrews Film Studies), 223 pages ISBN: 978-0956373090 (hardback), £35 ISBN: 978-0956373076 (paperback),...
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