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A HARD DAY'S NIGHT

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By Samira Ahmed 
| Kirkus Reviews
Yes, the world does need another Beatles book, especially this one. Another pocket pal from the BFI Film Classics series. For all the ways that writers have anatomized the 1964 Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night, no one has approached it like Ahmed. An English broadcaster and the daughter of South Asian immigrants, she fell for the Beatles in 1979 at age 11 while watching videos of the band’s films.
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The summer of ’76 – when superheroines landed on TV

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By Samira Ahmed 
| Yahoo News UK
July 1, 1976. At the height of Britain's most-famous long, hot summer, viewers were introduced to a heroine who would regularly top the TV ratings. The Bionic Woman debuted on ITV that night and, quite unexpectedly, became the most-watched programme of the week, with seven million households tuning in. It was the start, for me, of a summer of strong females – the others being Wonder Woman and Isis.
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The new generation with something to say?

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By Samira Ahmed 
| New Humanist
A scene from Richard Linklater's There was a time in late 50s, early 60s Paris when something was in the air. In just three years, 162 debut feature films emerged from a new generation of filmmakers, who created energetic, rule-breaking, joy-filled cinema, populated by young men and women running through the streets, filming on the hoof with their new lightweight cameras. They called it the nouvelle vague – the French New Wave.
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