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Media Screen Round-up, August – September 2016
Published: 12 October 2016The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. This month’s selection features two books which consider the rich but still largely unexplored history of scientific filmmaking. Scott Curtis’ The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in […]
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Media Screen Round-up July 2016
Published: 2 September 2016The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the April 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. This month’s round-up features a reference to Ciara Chambers’ chapter about the portrayal of the aftermath of […]
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Media Screen Round-up, June 2016
Published: 14 July 2016The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby This month’s round-up includes journal articles on the use of early newsreel footage in war reporting, and a look at how amateur films were used to construct identity in postwar Britain. […]
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Media Screen Round-up May 2016
Published: 15 June 2016The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby. A varied selection this month includes a trio of books on film and television adaptations of the works of three English writers, including the novels of John Fowles: Aubrey, James, ed. […]
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Media Screen Round-Up April 2016
Published: 1 June 2016The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby. One of the highlights of this month’s selection is Muhamed Amin’s article in the latest issue of The Journal of European Popular Culture (Volume 6, Issue 2): ‘Welcome to Europe! Linking […]
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Media Screen Roundup March 2016
Published: 21 April 2016The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at the BUFVC by Andrew Ormsby. Highlights in this month’s Roundup include Rachel Moseley’s Hand-Made Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974.’, which is the first academic work to consider children’s programmes such as ‘Pogles’ Wood’ […]
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Media Screen Roundup: February 2016
Published: 30 March 2016The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research. This month’s Media Screen Roundup features a number of articles and books on Judaism and the Holocaust, including the following: Mayers, Oren. 2014. Communicating Awe : Media Memory and Holocaust Commemoration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Includes chapter, Programming Commemoration: Holocaust Remembrance […]
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Media Screen Roundup: December 2015 – January 2016
Published: 2 February 2016The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia it’s perhaps fitting that this month’s double issue of Media Screen Roundup features adaptations of utopian literature. Blaims’ Mediated Utopias: […]
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Media Screen Roundup – November 2015
Published: 9 December 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A special issue of Word and Image on “Writing in Film” opens this month’s Roundup. The issue covers examples of writing in and around film from film posters to the […]
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Media Screen Roundup – October 2015
Published: 12 November 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In this month’s Roundup there is a focus on politics and empire. Negrine and Bull investigate the television coverage of the British MPs’ expenses scandal. The gender bias coverage in […]