In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it? Before moving to Yale and becoming a bestselling historian, Paul Kennedy grew up on Tyneside in the 50s and 60s. "A world of great noise and much dirt," is how he remembers it, where the chief industry was building ships and his father and uncles were boilermakers in Wallsend. Last year the academic gave a lecture that reminisced a little about those days...

Золотой век американского авангарда (The Golden Age of the American Avant-Garde) – шестидесятые. Самый изобильный период в истории американского экспериментального кино связан с тремя факторами. Во-первых, приходом в авангард целой группы молодых ярких и непохожих друг на друга кинохудожников, каждый из которых обладал собственным уникальным взглядом на «седьмое искусство»: Стэн Брэкедж, Брюс Коннер, Джек Смит, братья Йонас и Адольфас Мекас. Во-вторых, основанием «Кооператива кинематографистов»,...