After the BFI's extensive tribute to Alfred Hitchcock over the summer and the immaculate restorations of his silent films, you might have thought the great director had nothing else to give. But now, and for the next two months, the more
The BBC yesterday brought together all of its radio channels for a charming Damon Albarn composition to celebrate ninety years since it first went on air. Other offerings to mark the occasion include a neat online more
I am researching early television in the 1930s and have come across a rather engaging discussion in the Letters column of The Times. This took place at a time when the very idea of 'television' was being formed - as more
I thought it might be time to bring this blog up to date with the news from my 'other' project, Screen Plays. This is a three-year research initiative based at the University of Westminster and funded more
The big background story of the week has to be how big data helped Obama win big. Start with Michael Scherer's fascinating piece for Time, Inside the secret world of the data crunchers who helped Obama win. What more
As I hope we'll have occasion to reveal at the appropriate point, I have a particular interest at present in Uncle Vanya. So the opportunity to see two - very different - productions on the same day seemed too good more
Wednesday morning, and to kill time I'm wandering around Stratford-upon-Avon. Oxfam Books is - as ever - alluring, and I make for the modest Film and Television section. Not that my shelves at home (or indeed the floors) have any more more
After celebrating East End boy Alfred Hitchcock through the summer, the BFI is now looking to the west of London - to Ealing Studios. As you can see from the trailer, this month and next there is a compendious (and tremendous) more
Even though I was giving a paper at the Channel 4 and British film culture conference on Friday, the thirtieth anniversary of the switch-on rather snuck up on me. Then it was 4.20pm and I realised that it more
I have lost count of the number of times that I have linked to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's exemplary blog about the history and art of film. Now David Bordwell has scripted and narrated a video essay, more