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Dr. Alastair Phillips has contributed a new booklet essay on Thieves Highway (1949) to Arrow Films’ ongoing series of DVD releases of classic films by Jules Dassin. Phillips has also written essays on Dassin’s The Naked City (1948) and Rififi (1955) for the series and is the author of a book on the latter film.

Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Frame, who graduated with a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the Dept. in 2012. Supervised by Professor Stella Bruzzi, he completed a thesis entitled The American President in Film and Television, which he then went on to publish as a monograph with Peter Lang: The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation

Dr. Helen Wheatley will be on the Radio 4 Today programme on Monday morning (October 28th) talking about the Story of Children’s Television exhibition and children’s TV history. Keep an ear out for her between 8.20am and 9am.

The Story of Children’s Television Exhibition has been nominated in two categories, ‘Culture Award’ and ‘Event of the Year’, in the Coventry and Warwickshire Tourism and Culture Awards.We wish them good luck in the awards ceremony which is happening tonight.

The exhibition 'The Story of Children’s Television from 1946 to Today', a collaboration between Dr. Helen Wheatley and Dr. Rachel Moseley and the Herbert Gallery, has been nominated in two categories by the Coventry and Warwickshire Culture and Tourism Awards: 'The Culture Award' and 'Best Tourism Event of the Year'.

More information here: http://stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/coventry-and-warwickshire-culture-and-tourism-awards-shortlist-7767/

The exhbition is free, situated in the Herbert Gallery, Coventry, and runs until 13 September. Find out more about it here: http://www.theherbert.org/whats-on/events-exhibitions/story-children%E2%80%99s-television-1946-today