Viewfinder Articles
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Watching Seven Up
56 Up, the latest edition in the ‘Seven Up’ series of TV documentaries by Michael Apted is due to be screened on ITV shortly. It has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven yearly intervals,Now available on DVD for the first time in the UK, Susanne Hammacher of the Royal Anthropological Institute looks at the history and impact of the films.
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The Holocaust on Film – Shoah
Professor Michael Berkowitz looks at the hisory behind Claude Lanzmann’s monumental 10-hour documentary ‘Shoah’ (1985) in the light of a new book dedicated to the film in the BFI Film Classics range by Sue Vice.
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Withnail and Us – Fan Worship
What makes a film become a cult and what are the characteristics of the cult film fan? Paul Booth digs deep for some answers in the light of Justin Smith’s new book, Withnail and Us.
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Makers | Our Story
Mamakers | Our Story is a new documentary about the movie business. The filmmakers describe their journey in a challenging industry. Are these people brave, commendable or delusional?
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Producing BFI Flipside’s ‘Her Private Hell’
Josephine Botting of the British Film Institute discusses how she helped return an obscure 1960s British film to video for the BFI Flipside series.
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Springboard Gives Norfolk TV Punch!
Students at the College of West Anglia have been using community broadcasting resource SpringboardTV. Course Director Anthony Barnett and some of his students outline the project’s development.
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Channel 4 and Educational Programming
Ever since Channel 4 began broadcasting on 2 November 1982, it has courted controversy and innovation in equal measure. Maggie Brown considers its contribution to education.
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Channel 4: Education with a Difference
Dorothy Hobson looks at the legacy of Channel 4′s eduational output and the role played by the late Naomi Sargant.
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Screening Science
Dr Andrew Bartlett profiles Cardiff sciSCREEN, a cross-disciplinary programme that promotes engagement between science and the academy through audio-visual media.
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Channel 4′s First 25 Years
About the Author: Justin Smith is principal lecturer and subject leader for Film Studies, University of Portsmouth. His publications include monograph, Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema, 1968-86 (I. B. Tauris, 2010) and (with Sue Harper) British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). …
