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How Silent Movie Special Effects Were Done (2017)

Subject

Film studies

Films have always used special effects. This short video offers a compilation of clips showing some famous tricks in the following titles: -Safety Last! (1923) -Modern Times (1936) -Ella Cinders (1926)...

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Pick of 1979: interviews from The Late Show April/May 1979 - nd [Apr/May 1979] - 2 reels

Pick of 1979: interviews from The Late Show: April/May 1979 - Tracks 1-4 April; Tracks 5-8 May. NB intros are not on tape. TRACK 1- Interview with COUNT NICOLAI TOLSTOY - Victims of Yalta. He told Paul what...

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Inside the Script e-Books

Date

30 Apr 2012, 12:20

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

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Warner Bros. Digital Distribution has launched a new series of eBooks called Inside the Script. The initial publications as part of this new initiative provide screenplays and masses of detailed...

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Celluloid Closet, The (1995)

Director

Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman

Producer

Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £14.99

A documentary compilation of film clips and interviews covering 100 years of cinema, looking at the way homosexuality has been represented in popular cinema and tracing how stereotyes emerged. and includes...

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Gods and Idols

Date

27 Dec 2013, 12:38

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

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...

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The Gospel According to Matthew

Date

13 Apr 2012, 11:10

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2012. GB. Blu-ray/DVD. The Gospel According to Matthew [Il vangelo secondo Matteo]. 138 minutes (+ extras). Eureka (Masters of Cinema series). Certificate U. Price £22.99 About the Author: Dr Miles Booy is...

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Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism

Date

12 Mar 2015, 18:06

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism by Michael Williams (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 272 pages, ISBN: 978-0230355446 (hardback) £61 About the reviewer: Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, is Senior Lecturer in...

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Bible cinema ... in the beginning

Date

17 Sep 2015, 11:48

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

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...

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Feature Films on British Television in the 1970s

Date

13 Nov 2015, 17:12

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

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...

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