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Welcome to the British Cinema and Television Special Interest Group (SIG).
We are a UK-based hub for scholarship on British film and television and operate as part of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (please note that our umbrella organisation has a different website).
You can read news bulletins about our SIG’s activity here, or continue reading for blog posts by our members and colleagues.
Claire Gould (University of Reading) When central characters Sarah Burton and Robert Carne meet for the first time in South Riding (Victor Saville, 1938), their awkward encounter on a country lane pitches their opposing impulses towards modernity or tradition into an argument over the right to occupy space on the road. Driving to be interviewed for the position…
Will Kitchen (Arts University Bournemouth) Please note: this blog post on Lindsay Anderson is followed by a call for contributions to the edited collection Refocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson: Edinburgh University Press. 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of Lindsay Anderson’s death in 1994. One of the most challenging and iconoclastic figures in twentieth century…
Steven Roberts (University of Bristol) Scholars gathered at the 11th annual BAFTSS conference which was hosted by the University of Lincoln, nestled beneath the gleaming cathedral towers captured on my phone upon arrival in the city, above. Other than the good British weather, I was impressed by the sheer range of papers on British cinema…
Welcome to the British Cinema and Television Special Interest Group. We are a UK-based hub for scholarship on British film and television and operate as part of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
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