Just over a couple of years ago Illuminations worked with the Shakespearean London Theatres research project (ShaLT) to produce a clutch of performance videos and interviews about early modern theatre. One of these, which is embedded more
Picking up the theme from Monday's post, here's another wonderful glimpse of early television, albeit this time in the United States. The embedded film below comes courtesy of the great and glorious Prelinger Archives which offers online some more
Andrew Saladino's video essay about the cinematography in Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds, 1959, isn't the most innovative or the most profound or the most theoretically rigorous analysis of this kind. But it is beautifully assembled, is genuinely informative more
So which magazines do you access online and which do you (still) read as print? TLS and London Review of Books still drop through my letterbox every week and fortnight respectively, and I find something pleasingly material about more
Among the books that I collect and cherish are early publications about television. Anything from before about 1960 qualifies as 'early', but volumes from the 1930s and 1940s are especially interesting. So I was particularly pleased on a visit to Whitstable on Sunday more
The usual weekly selection of links to things I have found interesting to read and to watch over the past seven days. • The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & Associates - capturing the Kennedys: it's great news that more
Whisper it softly but the best drama on American television - or should that be television tout court? - is about to come to an end. Depending on quite how far along you are on More4 this side of the Atlantic, more
I purchased my first artwork in, I believe, 1972. I'm not talking here about an Athena poster, but rather a print that I could just about imagine encountering in what was then London's only Tate Gallery. Not that I dared enter a more
If you are thinking of coming to the 'From Stage to Screen' workshop in Nottingham on Saturday, the details of which I posted yesterday, then the perfect prep for this would be to watch the 2013 more
I'm very much looking forward to this workshop on Saturday in Nottingham. The event is free but do please register online if you would like to attend - there are just a few places left. I hope there will be plenty of more