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The British Universities Film & Video Council is delighted to welcome the following judges for the Learning on Screen Awards 2013: Chair: Steve Ellis, after twenty years as a broadcast executive he is...
Lost TV archives from across Europe are revealed online Television buffs, historians and even foreign language students could benefit from EUscreen, a new online portal that launches today (Thursday 27...
In November 1982 I was working as Assistant TV Acquisitions Officer in the National Film Archive at the British Film Institute and freelancing for Time Out and a range of magazines and newspapers about...
Coverage of TV in the Press [caption id="attachment_13210" align="alignleft" width="234" caption="Radio Times' 'Television' cover, 23 October 1936"][/caption] In an age of Web listings, free...
The Projection of Britain: A History of the GPO, edited Scott Anthony and James G. Mansell (BFI Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 352 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573752 (handback), Price: £65; ISBN: 978-1844573745...
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...
Film Review Programming on Channel 4 As a visual medium, television offers an ideal context for reviewing films. It allows the reviewer to successfully ‘quote’ content and carry out in-depth analysis...
2013. GB. DVD / Blu-ray. Second Sight. 216 minutes (plus extras). Certificate 15. RRP £15.99 (DVD), £19.99 (Blu-ray). About the reviewer: Dr Miles Booy gained his doctorate in film studies from the...
From its inception in 1982 to its demise in 1998 (with the launch of the subscription service FilmFour, now Film4 on Freeview), Film on Four was the flagship broadcast strand for new feature films...
Why are stars often called ‘gods’ or ‘goddesses’? How was antiquity used to boost the image of the developing film industry and its stars? What does this historical association tell us about...