Latest on: Projects and Research
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Audio recordings from the ‘Channel 4 and British Film Culture’ conference
Published: 20 May 2013Audio recordings of the papers from the ‘Channel 4 and British Film Culture’ conference can now be found on the project website at: www.c4film.co.uk/conference-2012/schedule This conference, which was held at the BFI Southbank in November 2012, celebrated thirty years of Film on Four/Film4 and was an outcome of an ongoing 4 year (2010-2014) AHRC funded …
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Media Screen Roundup – April 2013
Published: 10 May 2013The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. For those readers who enjoy CSI (and all its many variations) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ran a special issue on “Forensic Cultures” which included Forensic Fictions: Science, …
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Summer Viewfinder is here
Published: 3 May 2013
Viewfinder 91 includes articles on audiovisual citation, 1960s British cinema-going, the online delivery of the Roundabout cinemagazine and Dziga Vertov’s early Soviet newsreels, accessing the archive of BBC World service … and much more! -
600 Roundabout Films Added to News on Screen
Published: 23 April 2013
More than 600 Technicolor cinemagazine videos from the 1960s now freely available to view online -
BoB National is getting an upgrade
Published: 22 April 2013This year will see an exciting new upgrade for BoB National – the BUFVC’s unique shared online off-air TV and radio recording service – including new features and an improved user experience. The new developments are a result of feedback received from current users and will be launched in October 2013. The new features will …
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Media Screen Roundup – March 2013
Published: 11 April 2013The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Simon: As befits the 50th anniversary of the Time Lord, there is an article entitled, Doctor Who and Race: Reflections on the Change of Britain’s Status in the International System. …
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20,000 new items being added to EUscreen
Published: 11 April 2013EUscreen is back and the new three-year initiative will see over 20,000 new items – mainly selected from long-running factual series, documentaries, newsreels and magazine programmes – added to the 30,000 items already available on the EUscreen portal. The BUFVC will work with 32 partners across Europe and, as UK partner, will once again collaborate …
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World Lecture Project
Published: 5 April 2013The World Lecture Project is a freely accessible online platform for delivering academic videos from faculties worldwide. The collaborative nature of the project, the open call to add valuable content in any language as well as its aim to generate synergies between other e-learning services and platform ensure the constant expansion of the database which …
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CFP: Hidden Professions of Television
Published: 2 April 2013VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Vol. 2, Issue 4 VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the field of television studies. Offering an international platform for outstanding academic research on television, the journal has an interdisciplinary profile and acts both as a platform for …
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BUFVC audiovisual citation guidelines
Published: 27 March 2013
Ever wondered how to cite a TV advert or DVD extra? Take a look at our new set of practical guidelines, which encourage best practice in citing audiovisual material across all disciplines.
