Journals on Film, TV and Cultural Studies - Lucky RCS Students!

Did you know?  Our library subscription to Edinburgh University Press journals gives our staff and students access to no less then ten different journals on film, television and cultural studies.

On site, colleagues will find themselves already logged in to the website here.  Off-campus, you'll need to log in by Shibboleth.  (That means picking the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland from a list of institutions, and then using your normal login.)

Journal of British Film and Television, anyone?

Broadcast: Andy Dougan blogs to Film and TV students

Screen: the top 6 inches

This is the title of Film and TV lecturer Andy Dougan's latest post on Broadcast.  It's all about essential qualities in film makers.  Read it here.

Film Competition (ENO Mini-operas)

English National Opera Film Competition

Only 17 days left - find out more about the competition here!

Relationship between Film and Literature: an essay prize

Oxford Journals has launched an essay prize on the subject of 'adaptation', in their new Adaptation journal, which was only launched last year:-
 

"About the Adaptation Essay Prize
The Adaptation Essay Prize is a new innovation from the journal, launched in 2011 to encourage the best new scholarship in the field. While the journal publishes many articles which focus on the relationship between literature and film, the Editors are particularly keen to publish work which challenges the primacy of that relationship: this might include essays on computer games, opera, popular music, animation, genre fiction or work with a wider theoretical sweep."
 

Find out more here. 

Whittaker's Round-up

'Whittaker' has been writing, this week.  While he was away from his desk, lots of news items came flooding in.  Do spare a minute to take a look!

The future of the British Film Industry, by Andrew Dixon on the Creative Scotland blog.
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Elgar Society Website Eases Access to Resources

Musicians, researchers, teachers and concert promoters benefit from on-line library : Access to resources and archives supporting the rich legacy of Sir Edward Elgar has just become easier with the launch of the new Elgar Society website at www.elgar.org

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Two copyright myths exposed by the UK Copyright Service (Why not check all ten myths here?!):-

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I can legally copy 10% without it being infringement

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This is not the case. Unless it is explicitly allowed under fair use or fair dealing rules, any unauthorised use of copyright work can potentially lead to legal action.

When using quotes or extracts, there is no magic figure or percentage that can be applied as each case must be viewed on its own merit. In cases that have come to trial what is clear is that it is the perceived importance of the copied content rather than simply the quantity that counts.

Our advice would always be to seek permission before you use the work of others

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It’s OK to use copy or publish other peoples work if I don't make any money out of it

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No, except in specific circumstances permitted under fair dealing/fair use rules, any copying or publication without the consent of the copyright owner is an infringement, and you could face legal action.

If the use has a financial impact on the copyright owner, (i.e. lost sales), then you could also face a claim for damages to reclaim lost revenue and royalties.

Thanks to Lucy Robertson, Performance Librarian, for these useful copyright tips.

EU Screen - Conference in Budapest, September 2012

Look! A conference with NO conference fee!

EU Screen, 13-14 September 2012, Budapest

EUscreen organises its third and final conference on the topic Television Heritage and the Web. The conference takes places at ELTE University in Budapest, on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14, 2012. Attendance is free, but registration is required

Conference Topic

 
The television landscape is evolving at tremendous speed. According to Eric Schmidt, former CEO at Google, “the Internet is fundamental to the future of TV”. Most broadcasters are struggling to grasp the pitfalls and potentials of the net. Emerging viewing patterns involve increased interactivity, non-stop availabilty and the evidence of choice.
 
The current shift suggests new ways of looking, where a web-centric view becomes more and more popular. Broadcasters’ resources are being redirected to web based forms of TV and the ‘archive’ increasingly becomes an asset, since it can attract potential users online. The major question for audiovisual archives, educators  and researchers these days, is what the current web-based shift implies for television heritage.
 

The EUscreen project puts more than 30.000 televisual items online in an act to make historical audiovisual content widely accessible. The conference Television Heritage and the Web attempts to discuss and analyse the potentials and pitfalls of the current media transition.

Conference programme  - The programme of the conference will be published soon. You can sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Twitter or register your attendance on http://euscreen2012.eventbrite.com to stay up to date.

 



Journeys across media: call for conference papers

Journeys Across Media: Time Tells

19th April 2012

University of Reading (Film, Theatre and Televison)

Conference website

Call for papers - deadline Friday 3rd February

Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television

JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10^th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research.

This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses around time to submit papers for the JAM 2012conference; topics may include, but are not restricted to:

Perception of time

Time and memory

Spatialisation of time/Time-Space

Cinematic time

Time and technology

Time and New Media

The archive

Revivals, Anniversary Productions, Retrospectives and Re-enactments

Sequels, Series and Recurring Characters

The Evolution of the Spectator in Time

Endurance Art

Debates on Ephemerality within performance

Life-as-art

The experience and performance of Duration

Time-based performance

Timelessness

Please see Whittaker Live's CFP - Call for Papers page, for further details.

Short folkloristic Christmas film from Sweden

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Sent to 'Whittaker' by Pia Shekter, Secretary General of the International Association of Music Libraries.  Enjoy! 

Here comes a folkloristic Christmas Greeting from Sweden! This film is sent every Christmas Eve on Swedish television since many years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJ0Ec-jYg8

Lasair Award - Irish Film and TV Network

Film and TV students! Look here - an award!

Be quick ...deadline extended.

Filmbase and TG4 have announced that the deadline for the Lasair award scheme has been extended until the 27th January 2012. Filmbase and TG4 are also organising an information session for filmmakers interested in applying to the Lasair short film award scheme. Lasair, now in its 5th round, is Filmbase and TG4’s scheme for supporting filmmakers to produce short films in the Irish language.

Full details here


Mention of the Irish language suggests that you might need to find Irish collaborators ...?

This will be added to Whittaker Live's Awards, Grants, Prizes page