Three years ago, Richard Macdonald and I compared Dai Vaughan (1933-2012) with two other ‘outstanding figures of his generation’, Robin Wood (1931-2009) and V F Perkins (1936-). The comparison is worth extending. Wood and Perkins are now regarded as key figures…
The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around the city’s drug trade. The show is considered to be more in touch with the world it portrays than previous…
The Journal of British Cinema and Television is a quarterly publishing every January, April, August and October. It is the leading journal on Cinema and Television and publishes a wide range of articles, book reviews, reports and in depth interviews…