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The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Highlights in this month’s Roundup...
How did you pinch a story? Was there political bias in the newsreels? How did censorship work during the Second World War? These are just some of the many questions answered in these oral histories...
Iranian Cinema: A Political History by Hamid Reza Sadr (I.B. Tauris, September 2006), 320 pages, ISBN: 101845111478 (paperback) £16.99; ISBN 978-1845111465 (hardback) £45.00 About the reviewer: Dr...
In December 1921 Gaumont Graphic filmed a 37-second story of delegates at the international disarmament conference held in Washington, D.C. The Company was proud to promote its technical achievement above...
Between 1910 and 1979 the newsreels, released twice a week in British cinemas, gave millions their picture of national and world events. They have now preserved an invaluable record of life and news in the...
Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western by Austin Fisher (IB Tauris, reprint edition, 2014), 320 pages, ISBN: 978-1780767116 (paperback), £17.99 About the Reviewer: Dr Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme...
The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Amongst the references in this month’s...
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue by Sohail Daulatzai, (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 104 pages, ISBN: 978-1517902384, £7.99 About the reviewer: Alan O’Leary is Professor...
Political Animals: New Feminist Cinema by Sophie Mayer, (I.B. Tauris, 2016), 260 pages, ISBN: 978-1784533724 (paperback), £16.99. About the reviewer: Dr Janet McCabe, Senior Lecturer in Film and...
The Politics of Documentary by Michael Chanan (British Film Institute, 2008), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-1-84457-226-7, £16.99 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1-84457-227-4, £50.00 (hardback) About the reviewer: Dr....