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Film Sound in Italy by Antonella Sisto (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 236 pages, ISBN: 978-1137387707 (hardback), £60 About the reviewer: Professor Gordon has published widely on 20th-century Italian...
Roundabout (1962-1974) was a monthly Technicolor series designed to promote Britain as a progressive world leader to south and south-east Asia. Produced by the British government through its Central Office...
Linda Kaye provides a guided tour of Roundabout (http://bufvc.ac.uk/roundabout), the Technicolor cinemagazine that in the 1960s and 70s helped the government promote Britain as a progressive world leader to...
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History by Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale (Wayne State University Press, 2010). 363 pages. ISBN: 978-0814330081 (paperback), £31 About the reviewer: Julian...
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...
The winners of the Learning on Screen Awards 2013 are: General Education Broadcast Award Mixed Britannia BBC Production for BBC Two Director & Producer: Fatima Salaria Britain in 2011 has...
Although the idea of film funding wasn't directly discussed in the Annan Report which led to the creation of Channel 4, it was a passion of the Channel’s first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. In Europe...
[caption id="attachment_324" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="David Hare in conversation. Image courtesy Museo Reina Sofia "][/caption] David Hare’s Page Eight, which premiered at the Edinburgh...
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...
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...