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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 […]
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Europeana releases World War I Multi-Touch Book
Published: 16 October 2015Europeana has just launched its first Multi-Touch book and iTunes U course, World War I: A battle of perspectives, introducing students and learners to the causes leading to the outbreak of the First World War. The book and accompanying course, available from 15.10.2015 on iTunes, allows students to explore a diverse range of different historical sources from Europeana 1914-1918 […]
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Media Screen Roundup – September 2015
Published: 9 October 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. Here be dragons! Sorry I could not resist opening this month’s Roundup with a reference to Thomas Honegger’s article on screen dragons in Bauer’s Fact and Fiction : From the Middle […]
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EUscreen and Metadata
Published: 30 September 2015Metadata quality, interoperability, standardised access – all these are buzzwords commonly used and agreed on as being vital for resource discovery in the digital heritage sector. But what do these words actually mean? More specifically, what do they mean to us in the context of the EUscreen project? The ‘EUscreen and Metadata’ document, compiled by […]
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Media Screen Roundup – August 2015
Published: 15 September 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. This month’s Roundup opens with an unusual cinematic special issue from an unusual source – Small Wars & Insurgencies. The issue, entitled Cinema and Insurgencies, covers ancient history on film […]
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Media Screen Roundup – July 2015
Published: 10 August 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. In light of the current debate over BBC funding and production it’s interesting to note Roddy Flynn’s article on a similar discussions in Ireland in the 1960s. This article is […]
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Media Screen Roundup – June 2015
Published: 13 July 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This issue opens with a rather morbid work and sets the trend for other works in the issue. Michele Aaron’s Death and the moving image examines the representation of death, […]
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Media Screen Roundup – May 2015
Published: 18 June 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Music videos feature in articles by Vogel and Unger. While Vogel explores masculinity and race in Michael Jackson’s Black and White, Unger looks at K-Pop Girl Group Music Videos in […]
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Media Screen Roundup – April 2015
Published: 26 May 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A slimmer issue of Roundup than usual but with just as wide a variety of references. With the re-launch of the TV series The X-Files, there is Trevor McCrisken’s The […]
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Media Screen Roundup – March 2015
Published: 17 April 2015The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. The Red Shoes and Soviet film feature in a special issue of Journal of Design History entitled “Between Avant-Garde and Commercialism: Reconsidering Émigrés and Design”, First up, Engelke and Hochscherf […]