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For the week ending 30 November 2012, the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include coverage of such topics as world famine, photography, the modern Spanish economy and the...
2010. DVD. Alba Home Video. 520 minutes. £29.99 About the author: Dr Nick Baron is Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham and author of The King of Karelia: Col. P.J. Woods and the...
The Screening Socialism project is the first comparative, transnational study of television cultures in socialist Eastern Europe. Dr Sabina Mihelj, Reader in Media and Cultural Analysis, Loughborough...
Halliwell’s Horizon: Leslie Halliwell and His Film Guides, by Michael Binder (Lulu Press, July 2011), 302 pages. ISBN: 978-1447742050 (hardback) £18.99; ISBN: 978-1447748212 (paperback) £8.99; Kindle...
Film historian James Leahy provides a personal view of three of the films made by the educator and film director Thorold Dickinson which are now available on DVD. About the author: James Leahy is a...
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...
Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was one of the pioneers in the development of scientific cinema and was one of its great popularisers. Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland looks at the...
A new three-year research project at the University Westminster is currently underway with the ambitious aim of collating information on all plays written for the theatre that have been produced for British...
The Adventure of the Real – Jean Rouch and the craft of Ethnographic Cinema, by Paul Henley (University of Chicago Press, 2010), 533 pages, ISBN: 978-0226327150 (paperback), £24; Kindle, price £19.38;...
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