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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...
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...
Women’s Film History Network-UK/Ireland is an emerging organization open to anyone committed to investigating women's film history from its early days to the recent past. About the author: Professor...
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain, edited by Julie Brown and Annette Davison. (Oxford University Press, 2013). 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0199797615 (hardback), £65; ISBN: 978-0199797547 (paperback), £22.50....
Both the Old and the New Testament continue to be a rich sources of inspiration for the cinema. Dr Miles Booy considers a new history of some of the progenitors of the genre. About the author: Dr Miles Booy...
Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age Edited by Edward Lamberti (foreword by Mark Kermode) (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 23 Nov 2012), 256 pages ISBN:...
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;...
Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory Edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett & Jeffrey Shandler (Indiana University Press, November 2012), 448 pages ISBN: 978-0253007391 (paperback),...
The British Board of Film Classification celebrates its centenary this year. But what can the organisation learn from the past, and how does history inform its current business and commitment to education...
[caption id="attachment_435" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Spirit of Marc Karlin Exhibition Flyer"][/caption] Last month (on the weekend of the 13th-15th April) I attended a fascinating conference...
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