Author Archive for: ‘Mike Fleming’

The Encyclopedia of British Film (Third Edition)

Brian McFarlane (ed), The Encyclopedia of British Film (Third Edition). Methuen, London, 2008 ISBN: 9780413776600 UK £24.99 (pb) 816pp (Review copy supplied by Methuen) Twenty years ago in a television series titled Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future a character defined ‘book’ as ‘a non-volatile database’. The ‘non-volatility’ of such a database means that if the creator wants to add/subtract/amend or …

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