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Viewfinder 106 was published in March 2016. Contents of the issue: FORGOTTEN TV DRAMA Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart, Royal Holloway, report on the 'Forgotten TV Dramas' season at the BFI, and...
The BBC continues its wealth of programming to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. On 8 May BBC Radio 3 broadcasts a new production of King Lear with Ian McDiarmid in the title role;...
2014. GB. DVD. BFI. 84 minutes (plus 65 minutes of extras). Certificate 12. Price: £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr Billy Smart currently works as Research Officer on the AHRC-funded ‘Forgotten British...
There were almost 90,000 searches on the BUFVC's Moving Image Gateway in the last 12 months, covering dozens of topics and academic disciplines. Here are 5 of our favourites from the entries we entered or...
Tom Stoppard: Radio Plays. 2012. GB. CD. 332 minutes (5 disc set). British Library. ISBN: 978-0712351232. Price: £40.00 About the Author: Peter M. Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Community Media at London...
Until the 1990s, the majority of British TV was shot on video in the studio, with film used only for exterior sequences. What impact did physical space have on both changing modes of production and...
1. British Library Audiovisual Theatre: Past, Present, Future In the June 2011 edition of Viewfinder we include an article by Stephen Cleary, Lead Curator of Drama Recordings at the British Library, in...
In September 1992 Channel 4 put an ad in Broadcast calling for a production company to run their latest scheme for attracting new, young talent to the Channel – a film competition, aimed at young...
GB. 2014. Blu-ray. Eureka! Entertainment. 121 minutes. £15.99. About the Author: Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage and Screen Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Zulu:...
The University of York has published a cross-disciplinary multimedia website detailing its staging of John Marston’s rarely-produced comedy The Dutch Courtesan. Michael Cordner looks at its realisation on...