Brunsdon, Charlotte (2012) 'It's a film' : medium specificity as textual gesture in Red road and The unloved. Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol.9 (No.3). pp. 457-479. doi:10.3366/jbctv.2012.0100 ISSN 1743-4521.

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Abstract

British cinema has long been intertwined with television. The
buzzwords of the transition to digital media, 'convergence' and
'multi-platform delivery', have particular histories in the British
context which can be grasped only through an understanding of the
cultural, historical and institutional peculiarities of the British film
and television industries. Central to this understanding must be two
comparisons: first, the relative stability of television in the duopoly
period (at its core, the licence-funded BBC) in contrast to the repeated
boom and bust of the many different financial/industrial combinations
which have comprised the film industry; and second, the cultural and
historical connotations of 'film' and 'television'. All readers of this
journal will be familiar – possibly over-familiar – with the notion that
'British cinema is alive and well and living on television'. At the end of
the first decade of the twenty-first century, when 'the end of medium
specificity' is much trumpeted, it might be useful to return to the
historical imbrication of British film and television, to explore both
the possibility that medium specificity may be more nationally specific
than much contemporary theorisation suggests, and to consider some
of the relationships between film and television manifest at a textual
level in two recent films, Red Road (2006) and The Unloved (2009).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Motion pictures and television, Television broadcasting of films, Red road (Motion picture), Unloved (Motion picture)
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of British Cinema and Television
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
ISSN:	1743-4521
Official Date:	2012
Dates:	Date Event 2012 Published
Volume:	Vol.9
Number:	No.3
Page Range:	pp. 457-479
DOI:	10.3366/jbctv.2012.0100
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	22 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access:	22 December 2015

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