(G)hosting television: Ghostwatch and its medium [PDF]
This article’s subject is Ghostwatch (BBC, 1992), a drama broadcast on Halloween night of 1992 which adopted the rhetoric of live non-fiction programming, and attracted controversy and ultimately censure from the Broadcasting Standards Council.
Barr C. +28 more
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Come to Daddy? Claiming Chris Cunningham for British Art Cinema [PDF]
Twenty years after he came to prominence via a series of provocative, ground-breaking music videos, Chris Cunningham remains a troubling, elusive figure within British visual culture.
Adams R. +23 more
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'It's a film' : medium specificity as textual gesture in Red road and The unloved [PDF]
British cinema has long been intertwined with television. The buzzwords of the transition to digital media, 'convergence' and 'multi-platform delivery', have particular histories in the British context which can be grasped only through an ...
Alvarado Manuel +50 more
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In describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, 'Listen to Britain' (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to Britain, we are enabled to ...
Aitken Ian +33 more
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Using e-learning to support international students' dissertation preparation [PDF]
Purpose: A research paper on the design and implementation of an e-learning resource responding to the globalisation of education. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the challenges presented in learning and teaching on how to support international ...
McCourt, Karen +3 more
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Beryl Reid Says... Good Evening: Performing Queer Identity on British Television [PDF]
Beryl Reid Says… Good Evening was a comedy revue series broadcast on BBC television in the late 1960s which showcased the talents of a renowned British character comedy performer. Beryl Reid’s career spanned music hall, variety theatre, dramatic acting,
White, Rosie
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Attitudes to self-sampling for HPV among Indian, Pakistani, African-Caribbean and white British women in Manchester, UK [PDF]
Objective: To examine attitudes to self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing among women from contrasting ethnic groups.Setting: Manchester, UK.Methods: Two hundred women of Indian, Pakistani, African-Caribbean and white British origin were ...
Cadman, L +6 more
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Personalizing the design of computer‐based instruction to enhance learning [PDF]
This paper reports two studies designed to investigate the effect on learning outcomes of matching individuals’ preferred cognitive styles to computer‐based instructional (CBI) material.
Boles, Wageeh +2 more
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Going to America to See the Fens Better? Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Waterland [PDF]
The article analyzes the changes introduced in the adaptation, including the shift of the contemporary action from Greenwich, England to the American city of Pittsburgh.
Sumera, Adam
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Film-induced tourism in the UK: the role of British Film Institute on promoting the image of the country [PDF]
Film-induced tourism-also referred to as Film Tourism- is a recent growing phenomenon whose main purpose is to explore the potential tourist’s motivations when planning their upcoming visit to a destination.
Tomás Chaves, Marta
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