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TV and British film. Editor of View. Chair of Learning on Screen. Emeritus prof at Royal Holloway. Allotment holder and occasional birdwatcher. Once a TV producer at www.largedoorltd.com
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How can audiovisual archives respond to the new forms of content discovery that have developed from googling and streaming? VIEW’s new edition explores through interviews with archivists, fresh research and reconceptualisation. viewjournal.eu/30/volume/13...

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Trump wants Panama back? Any day now Putin will reclaim Alaska, sold by Russia’s czar at a knockdown price after the Crimean war. No doubt China’s Xi has told him that was an “unfair” deal, like when China had to sell Hong Kong. We know how that ended. @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

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For some of our neighbours, Christmas seems to be over already. To everyone else, have a good one!

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@illuminations.bsky.social Tomorrow, 9pm: an extraordinary use of split screen in Twilight’s Last Gleaming! Saw this on initial release at the Clapham Grand, and it’s been almost impossible to see since. How prescient will it seem almost 50 years later?

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@illuminations.bsky.social see you there?

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Blimey. One for fans of Network Distributing.

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@nilspratley.bsky.social Still waiting for your analysis of the incomprehensible statement from Ole Jacob Sunde on the sale of #Observer. Clearly a CEO trying to pull the wool over the eyes of stakeholders. Just the kind of thing you usually skewer so well!

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www.communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/... Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach

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If you haven't seen this now's your chance. Terrific movie.

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How can journalists learn to deal with the datafication of their work? New issue of open source VIEW presents new research eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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I produced this golden oldie!

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The great #JamesRobertsonJustice is in the spotlight in the documentary series THOSE BRITISH FACES (1993) at 1:05pm #TPTVsubtitles

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It’s World Television Day (who knew? Only the inestimable Dick Fiddy!). So to celebrate take a look at How Television Used to be Made… old equipment and retired professionals back in action www.adapttvhistory.org.uk

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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Such sad news. Philippa commissioned my Visible Fictions in 1982 and even designed the cover herself. We did two more books together. She was always the kindest and most perceptive editor and is much missed www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

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The BFI and Film Foundation restoration of I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) will have its UK TV premiere on BBC Two on Sat 16/11 at 16.10 (and on BBC iPlayer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXs...

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Good morning all www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW

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A first for me on Bluesky: is there anyone here who will write for VIEW magazine? eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Paul Watson hated being called “the father of reality TV” and a “fly on the wall” filmmaker. He always knew how people perform for the camera. He was aware of his duty of care to his subjects, providing support to the subjects of Rain in My Heart long after the film aired

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Rule #1 on UK TV: never have scary hair when trying to reassure people

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My late friend Thomas Elsaesser’s archive is now online. A real original thinker about cinema

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Check out the new website for Learning on Screen! Sign in as a member (if your U.K. uni or college has paid up) and you’ll be amazed at the goodies available. Everything from dependable copyright advice to massive TV and film databases… plus BoB of course www.learningonscreen.ac.uk

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