The End Of Honecker

A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing interview with his apparently unrepentant widow, will receive its UK premiere next week.

The rise and fall of Kodak’s moment

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite camera is a powerful reminder of the rise and fall of a global brand - and of lessons other businesses would do well to learn.

The carriers of memory

Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely. Historian Jay Winter explains how poetry, art and film have been crucial to that process of transformation.

And the Oscar goes to…

French silent film The Artist won best picture at Sunday night's Academy Awards. Chris O' Rourke from the Faculty of English looks at the resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and discusses his research on the acting styles of early film to which The Artist pays homage.

Great handbags – but what about the politics?

Audiences are spellbound by Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. As a PhD student looking at British politics in the same era, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite was keen to see how the movie portrayed the woman who changed the face of Britain.

Letters through a lens

The first full history of the General Post Office's groundbreaking film unit reveals how Britain's “creative epicentre” during the 1930s brought new levels of realism to cinema.

Thinking the unthinkable

It's the title of a spectacular exhibition currently at Tate Britain, the central theme of Lars von Trier's forthcoming film Melancholia, and an idea that has gripped human imagination from earliest times. Now Apocalypse - and its cultural interpretation - is also the subject tackled in a new book by a Cambridge University academic in an adventurous trawl through literature and film.