Issue 8 – First Release

Issue no.7 was thematic: called "After Grierson", it considered the worldwide and continuing influence of John Grierson, not only in film. In the present issue we have two more articles…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 In the representation of the female prostitute in the cinema, the earliest archetypal narratives to emerge are those of the fallen woman and the white slave.…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 The adjudicator at the Third Glasgow Amateur Film Festival held in January 1936 was to be the renowned John Grierson. From 1929, when his film Drifters was screened…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 I first became aware of the myth, the man, almost a quarter of a century ago. It may have been a song, a young man holding…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 Since the 1960s, a reassessment of the Irish nationalist past has been going on in the Republic of Ireland. This reassessment has a variety of causes,…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 An attachment to history is certainly a mark of British culture, possibly confirmed most tellingly by the previous (Conservative) government calling its Ministry of Culture, the…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 This paper addresses two of the three key themes ofinfog99[1]  , namely: the provision of user access to digitally delivered screen products, and related issues for…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 Forgotten Silver (1995) by Costa Botes and Peter Jackson was described, after its screening, as "The greatest film hoax since the invention of movie pictures".[1] (1) It purported…

Uploaded 12 November 1999 Something of a paradox is at work in the world of British documentary. Long a staple of UK television output, in recent years it has become…

[1] Uploaded 12 November 1999 The study of broadcasting regulation has started to creep into the edges of the media studies curriculum, born on the wind that wafts across the…