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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...
This year will see a national celebration of the Bard’s work, as Hilary Bishop, Director of the RES Project for the BBC and Editor for BBC Archive Development explains. ‘Who will believe my verse in...
In the wake of the interest around Film4 productions such as Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, a recent Guardian article by Jane Graham identifies what she sees as a...
With the recent unprecedented multi-platform release (5th July 2013) of Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, which has been variously described as “a psychedelic Western” (Sound on Sight), “a...
Although the idea of film funding wasn't directly discussed in the Annan Report which led to the creation of Channel 4, it was a passion of the Channel’s first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. In Europe...
This is an ‘interim report’ by Dr Sheldon Hall, Sheffield Hallam University, on his long-term project on the history of the showing of feature films on British television, covering virtually the entire...
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...
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