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  • John Boyega and Celebrity Activism

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    Introduction by Dr Rebecca Feasey, Bath Spa University Eleanor struggled, like a number of her peers, to study online in terms of the lack of face-to-face interaction, discussion and debate, but unlike the majority of her contemporaries on the second year ‘Stardom and Celebrity’ module at Bath Spa University, she made the decision, somewhat reluctantly,… continue reading.

  • Unlocking the BBC digital archives: a new era of access to historic television

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    It is a truism to observe that the defining media form of the second half of the twentieth century was television. In Britain, as elsewhere, effects on the psycho-social order were felt profoundly following the mass adoption of the medium. One does not have to look far for examples. Within the intimacy of the home… continue reading.

  • Marvel Studios’ Perfect Fit: Representing Gender in Contemporary Society

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    Introduction by Dr Rebecca Feasey, Bath Spa University This article was an exceptional submission to a second-year module entitled Stardom and Celebrity at Bath Spa University, taught when Universities were encouraged to move teaching from campus to an online learning and teaching environment. Darcy was introduced through the module to seminal debates as they related… continue reading.

  • Liberation Radio

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    LIBERATION RADIO: using archive film and oral histories to retrieve the little-known story of American Military Deserters during the war in Vietnam By artist and filmmaker Esther Johnson (Professor of Film and Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University) Project Introduction In 1968 a group of American Military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in… continue reading.

  • The absurdity of virtual travel: going anywhere without taking off your slippers

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    This essay, if that is what it can be called, attempts to be a series of reflections upon the relationship between collaborative online script writing, and the act of teaching groups of students to become experimentally collaborative in a virtual environment. A string of twinkling lights desperately grip the branch of a tree, as the… continue reading.

  • Prisons and the Media

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    “Prison Governor’s Journal” (PGJ) – which I published in April 2021 – describes critical episodes in recent penal history in England and Wales. The book aims to provide an “insider" view from an experienced Prison Governor who was also Chair of the Governors’ Representative Organisation for many years. The part played by the media is… continue reading.

  • Break Everything ASAP: Reclaiming Electronic Pedagogy

    Published on: 15th February 2022

    This essay is about breaking things. It is a call to all you hard-working instructors, regardless of rank or title, to break your teaching methods and rid yourself of what does not work in the online teaching space. It is an essay about why instructors should embrace messiness, contradiction, and frustration. It is also about… continue reading.

  • EDITOR'S NOTE: ISSUE 118 - MEMORY

    Published on: 15th October 2021

    Welcome to ViewFinder Issue 118: Memory and Audiovisual Media This term we are looking at Memory and Audiovisual Media. Following the publication of key texts in the social sciences, humanities, and arts some two decades ago, multiple academic disciplines have seen a sustained focus on human capacities of memory. In this issue we have looked… continue reading.

  • "I’m here, but you can’t see me": Women amateur filmmakers, attribution and the archive

    Published on: 15th October 2021

    There are 13 regional film archives in the UK that form the membership of Film Archives UK (FAUK), together they provide national coverage for local film material and the vast numbers of extant films housed in these repositories evidences the energy, commitment and determination of the archivists and curators who assembled them (Gray, 2013). Wessex… continue reading.

  • Unsettling memories of the Ravensbrück camp: Marianna Christofides’ repotting flowers (2021)

    Published on: 15th October 2021

    From 1939 to 1945, more than 130,000 women and children, deemed ‘racially undesirable’ or ‘alien to the community’, were incarcerated and tortured in the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück, about 50 miles north of Berlin. Many of these women were political prisoners from Poland, the Soviet Union, Austria, France and Germany, an estimated number of… continue reading.

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