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By Stevie Simkin. Controversies series. (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2011). 155 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-29670-1 (paperback). Price: £12.99 About the Author: Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage and...
With the recent unprecedented multi-platform release (5th July 2013) of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, which has been variously described as “a psychedelic Western” (Sound on Sight), “a...
In the teens and twenties the members of the Pankhurst family became figureheads for the suffragette movement. Ceri Dingle describes the making of her new ‘crowd film’ about Sylvia Pankhurst. Dr Steven...
A new study by Elizabeth Lebas, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture at Middlesex University, explores Britain’s rich but neglected history of municipal filmmaking. We spoke with the...
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...
Data has been gathered on the British cinema newsreels for academic study since 1969, and under the care of the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) since 1974. What is now called News on...
Prof. James Chapman University of Leicester To understand the Inter-University History Film Consortium we must consider the contexts in which the organization emerged. In the late 1960s the teaching of...
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst (Reaktion Books, August 2015), 224 pages, 54 illustrations, ISBN 978-1780235288 (hardback), £16.00 About the reeviewer: Dr Emma Austin is a Senior Lecturer in...
Filmed warfare was a new phenomenon at the time of the First World War and it was months before the British authorities allowed cameramen up to the front line. David Walsh of the Imperial War Museum...
Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections edited by Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios (University of Calgary Press, 2011). 344 pages. ISBN: 978-1552385142 (paperback). £29.50 About the...
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