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Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain: From the 1920s to the Present By Mark Glancy (I.B. Tauris, 2014), 340 pages ISBN 978-1-84885-407-9 (hardback) About the reviewer: Dr Sheldon Hall is a...
What makes a film become a cult and what are the characteristics of the cult film fan? Paul Booth digs deep for some answers in the light of Justin Smith’s new book, Withnail and Us. About the author:...
The Wars of the Roses UK. DVD. Illuminations. 505 minutes. £29.99. About the reviewer: Dr Jodi-Anne George is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. Her research interests include Old...
Pantomime in Scotland: a celebration of Scottish pantomime on film 2010. GB. DVD. 165 minutes. University of Glasgow / Scottish Screen. Price: £18.95 (+ p&p). Available from:...
Dr Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds. His fellowship’s three-year research project, 'Interpreting Representations of...
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...
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...
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Channel 4, in November the University of Portsmouth held a two-day conference dedicated to the output of the UK’s fourth terrestrial TV channel. Dr...
This is an ‘interim report’ by Dr Sheldon Hall, Sheffield Hallam University, on his long-term project on the history of the showing of feature films on British television, covering virtually the entire...
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