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2013. GB. DVD/Blu-ray. BFI. 172 minutes (+ extras). Certificate 12. RRP £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr Jane Thomas is Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at...
The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,300 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments,...
Joan Littlewood’s stage production Oh! What a Lovely War has long been a favourite with students and teachers. Long unavailable on home video, Richard Attenborough’s 1968 film adaptation in now out on as...
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...
This is a collection of some of key books and articles on British newsreels and cinemagazines. The BUFVC publications can be ordered here. A fuller bibliography that includes essays, newspaper articles,...
[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...
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...
Dr Lez Cooke, Senior Research Officer at Royal Holloway University of London, takes a look at the BFI’s new Blu-ray/DVD collection ‘Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)’. Since...
Commissioned by the BBC in 1966, Chronicle was a groundbreaking archaeological series that would be on the air for the next twenty-five years. Don Henson, University of York, looks at the history and...
How embedded has the version of history as presented on television become in the public consciousness? Ann Gray and Erin Bell from the University of Lincoln ran a project that sought to answer that question...
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