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Ever since Channel 4 began broadcasting on 2 November 1982, it has courted controversy and innovation in equal measure. Maggie Brown considers its contribution to education. About the Author: Maggie Brown...
The Armstrong Lie. 2014. GB. Blu-Ray / DVD / Ultraviolet. Sony. 119 minutes + extras. £ 7.99 (DVD); £ 10.99 (Blu-ray). About the reviewer: Before taking up the position at the University of Sussex,...
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...
The Children of Green Knowe GB. DVD. Simply Media. 110 mins, £14.99. About the reviewer: Prof Stephen Lacey is Emeritus Professor of Drama, Film and Television at the University of South Wales. His main...
Adrian Cowell’s award-winning 1970 documentary The Tribe That Hides From Man about the Kreen-Akrore Indians is now available on DVD. Dr Elizabeth Ewart of the University of Oxford has gone to Brazil to...
The Seven Up series of TV documentaries by Michael Apted has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven yearly intervals, with the next edition planned for screening on ITV later in...
Sixty years ago Hollywood had its first serious engagement with exhibiting feature films in three dimensions. Dr Simon Brown looks at one of the first films released on the then new film format, Inferno,...
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...
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...
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