The Spending Review and British Film Culture by Jack Newsinger
26.11.10
Film, as the first industrial art, has always been a complex mix of business and culture, and its status within public policy has reflected this. Successive governments have employed different strategies to stimulate commercial production on the one hand, and to subsidise cultural film activity that would not be possible if left to the market alone on the other. The surprise announcement of the abolition of ...
RSA Animate

21.07.10
RSA Animate illustrating a lecture by the authors of SuperFreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner If you find your mind wandering during lifeless lectures, then this animated lecture series might be just the thing. The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (better known as the RSA) has been hosting lectures with key thinkers for countless years and in the last three has ...