Arts, Humanities & Creative Industries
AHRC Disinformation project
The playlist includes a selection of clips retrieved from flagship television news programmes by main broadcasters in the United Kingdom: BBC news at Ten, ITV news at Ten, Channel 4 News, 5 News at 5, Sky News at 10. The stories selected fall within the time period of the 2019 UK General Election campaign and feature NHS claims made by the two main political parties, Labour and Conservatives...
Marketing Communications: Advertising
This playlist covers several aspects of the subject of advertising. From films on the process of creating advertising, the business context and historical and cultural context to the business of advertising itself. The case studies featured in some of these films make very useful classroom material for the analysis of the advertising and communications management process.
Remote journalism
This playlist shows examples of broadcast journalism produced remotely during lockdown. Some examples are entirely made up of content gathered from the studio, while others include elements of socially-distanced filming.
Global - China in Western Eyes
Recommended viewing for the course "Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300" (Dr Stephen McDowall; University of Edinburgh).
Chinese Politics
Margaretta Jolly's cultural studies and creative industries playlist
British Youth Culture
Digital Learning
Global- Literature and Dance
Global Fashion Playlist
Games
Global- East Germany onscreen (before and after the end of Communism
Global - National and Transnational Spanish Cinema
It is not always easy or productive to set the boundaries of a national cinema. Spanish-language films and professionals are involved in national and transnational production. Here are films made in Spain, produced by Spanish producers elsewhere and transnational films where Spanish film professionals take part...
Rome to Renaissance
This list contains documentaries that provide an introduction to the history and culture of the European Middle Ages (400-1500 CE) for those who are approaching the topic for the first time. The programmes are listed in chronological order beginning with those covering the disappearance of the Roman empire and ending with those about the Italian Renaissance.
Windrush
Playlist devoted to the Windrush generation including documentaries and drama.
Creative Immersive Storytelling and Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking involves over 21 million people around the world and generates an estimated $150 billions worth of trade. This playlist includes programmes which investigate the issue of human trafficking and present the findings in a traditional factual format...
Global - Essential Shakespeare
This playlist includes resources within BoB that can help to support thinking about, and engaging with, Shakespeare's plays in various ways...
Global - Shakespeare's Drama
This playlist focuses on adaptations of Shakespeare’s drama on film, TV, and filmed theatre. It showcases the rich and innovative ways in which Shakespeare’s works have been put on stage and screen: from Laurence Olivier’s patriotic Henry V, made during World War 2, to Phyllida’s Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar set in a women’s prison.
Global- Shakespeare - film, video and audio resources
This playlist includes a number of resources I’ve enjoyed using with my students on various Shakespeare courses. They aim to cover a range of approaches to Shakespeare, from new historicist to global Shakespeares perspectives. There are items related to specific plays, offering a range of productions and adaptations.
BBC Radio Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays broadcast on BBC Radio. Plays are in alphabetical order with the most recent production of each play first. Created by Dr Andrea Smith, University of Suffolk.
Real-Life
These videos feature unscripted speech when people are responding to an unusual situation or discovering something surprising. Notice the phrases they use when they want to say: "That's amazing!" or "thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!" or "I feel so happy!" Fact-based TV series include: Saving Lives at Sea, Who do you think you are, Repair Shop, Antiques Roadshow
Global- Classical Music in Film
This is a playlist of clips that illustrate various manners and effects of classical music’s use in film. The playlist begins with nondiegetic uses of classical music, before moving to examples of characters interacting with diegetic classical music, and finally to clips from films in which classical music is the focus...
Race and Ethnicity on British TV 1970 - 1995
This playlist focuses on television programming that provided some space for minority ethnic voices and experience in Britain from 1970 - 1995...
Feminist Film-Philosophy
A selection of philosophically interesting films that either raise feminist issues or are particularly amenable to feminist readings. These films are all suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate modules, and are also generally fascinating and provocative...
Global - Stars, Stardom, and Representation
Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, National IdentityThe study of stars opens up many avenues to explore issues of representation; from considerations of race and ethnicity to examinations of class, gender, sexuality and national identity. Although stars frequently become extraordinary icons, they are also ordinary individuals, reflecting national and cultural characteristics. This playlist includes particular stars that are useful to consider in relation to these issues...
Global - The Long Take
Sequence shots or extended and seemingly unbroken takes in films and TV. With the advent of digital shooting and CGI, its use has become even more varied and dynamic. TIMECODE (2000), RUSSIAN ARK (2002), SILENT HOUSE (2011), VICTORIA (2015) and SON OF SAUL (2015) are examples of films seemingly shot in a single take, while BIRDMAN (2014) and 1917 (2020) are mainly presented as single-takes but with dissolves and fades to black to show the passage of time.
Stanley Kubrick, A Life in Documentaries
The items I have chosen here relate to the legendary director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) responsible for such films as A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. I've focussed on the documentaries about the film-maker, some of which might not be so well-known, including two of the three documentaries he himself made when transitioning from photography to motion pictures.
Women and Theatre
An antidote to the list called Acting & Theatre that was sent round by BoB in April 2020 during the lockdown
Hanes, ieithoedd a diwylliannau Cymru / Welsh history, language and cultures
Librarians at Aberystwyth University have used BoB to create a range of playlists on Welsh literatures, history, art, music, film, comedy and sport to support the study and research of Wales.
Angelina Jolie: Film Stardom, Gender, and Humanitarianism
This playlist presents a series of items relating to Hollywood actor and director Angelina Jolie.
Global- Discovering lesbian film history through Mulholland Drive
This playlist situates Mulholland Drive (2001) in the context of film history. Lynch’s film intertwines the conventions of lesbian representation with cinema’s own conditions of production...
Global- Postcolonial Film and Geopolitical Contestation
This playlist may serve to aid the teaching of popular geopolitics and postcolonial film. An in depth consideration of the ways in which audiences engage with ‘foreign language’ or postcolonial cinema and contemporary geopolitics can be found in my paper Postcolonial Geopolitics: Reading Contemporary Geopolitics in Maghrebi-French War Films...
Global- John Boyega and Celebrity Activism
This playlist looks at Boyega’s celebrity identity which is deeply entwined with his personal activism - and aims to chart the actor’s success in bringing attention to inequality within both society and the film industry...
Global - The Cultural Politics of Hollywood Movies
A selection of popular Hollywood movies which demonstrate culturally relevant themes of race, class, gender and more...
Global - Cinéma-monde: New Directions in French and Film Studies
This playlist aims to introduce students to French-language cinema beyond the mainstream. The list adopts a thematic and theoretical approach to a de-centred French-language cinema, analyzing a ‘regional’ French cinema, diasporic French-language cinema, francophone Belgian and Swiss cinema as well as expanding beyond Europe...
Global - Film and Existentialism
This list contains a number of films that either explicitly address Existentialism or that more or less obliquely exemplify or challenge the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone du Beauvoir, Albert Camus and others. These films explore the dilemmas of freedom, authenticity, bad faith, anxiety, depression, suicide, racism, colonialism and oppression...
Media History and Politics
This playlist explores media history from a perspective that highlights social, political and economic factors. The focus is on key developments in modern communication technologies in the European and U.S. contexts, highlighting media technologies’ part in key historical and political changes such as the reformation, the development of capitalism, and the spread of liberal ideas...
Global - SHU MEDIA: Alternative Media
This playlist consists of background materials chosen to support teaching the concept of alternative media to final year undergraduate students at Sheffield Hallam University. The selections support weekly topics which include: underground and alternative press, 1960s counterculture, underground comics and fanzines, radical uses of the internet and online activism, culture jamming and consumerism, alternative music, cult cinema, television and comedy...
Popular Music, Media and Culture
This playlist demonstrates the connections between popular music, media, and culture across British television from the 1960s to the present day. The use of media as an integral way to communicate and explore popular music is emphasised by this collection, which features music videos, documentaries, music television performances, interviews, and compilations.
Popular Music Politics
A selection of films and documentaries that relate to themes and genres featured in the Popular Music Politics course at the University of Glasgow.
Global- Shakespeare: Performance and politics
This playlist selects clips and programmes that consider Shakespeare's place in contemporary performance and culture. These discussions, appropriations and viewpoints explore the politics of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class in how we read, view, perform and study Shakespeare
Feminisms and Television History Module Playlist
This is the playlist for the screened materials and clips from Cardiff University's Feminisms and Television History Module. This playlist will explore a timeline of representations of feminism on television stretching from the origins of such figures as the female action heroine to modern intersections of feminism regarding sexuality and race...
Here are the available playlists organised by subject area.