'The origins of the cinema are in the city'. Film director Gavin Millar examines this premise, which lies behind an exciting exhibition in Paris. Entitled Cites-Cines it launches the viewer on a cinematic journey through the great cities of the world and the imagination.
Tom Wolfe 's new novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, a satire that moves between Wall Street dollar culture and Bronx low-life, is reviewed by David Lodge.
Why has Wolfe, the prophet of new journalism, turned against his own declaration that journalism had wiped out the novel as 'literature's main event'?
From dramatisations of campus novels to realistic documentaries of student life, images of the university have recently proliferated on television. Mark Lawson, TV critic of the Independent, investigates the appeal of academe with Malcolm Bradbury and Marilyn Butler.
Researcher JAMES MARSH Assistant producers
SAM COLLYNS , ANDREW EATON Producer JOHN WHISTON Editor JOHN ARCHER