Film student publication success
Current MLitt student Georgina Beeby has published an article in the journal Film Matters: 'Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future'.
Department news
(Im)material worlds: Tracing creative practice, histories and environmental contexts in artists’ moving image from Southeast Asia and the UK
(Im)material worlds is an artists’ moving image programme that gives focus to the environmental crisis from Global South and postcolonial perspectives.
Funding success for Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson
Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson, senior lecturer in Film Studies, has won a British Academy Talent Development Award. The award will support her place on the prestigious Scholarship in Sound and Image workshop.
Film Studies British Council Grant Success: "Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian and British Artists' Cinema: Film Screenings and Discussion".
Lecturer in Film Studies Dr Philippa Lovatt and Dr Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) have been awarded £8000 from the British Council.
Film student publication success
Former visiting Film Studies Honours student Peter Horan has published an article in the journal Film Matters.
Funding Success in collaborative project between Film Studies and Modern Languages
Dr Paul Flaig and Dr Dora Osbourne (Modern Languages) have been successful in their application for a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) grant.
Dr Tom Rice invited to take up guest professorship
Dr Tom Rice invited to take up a Guest Professorship at the Goethe Universität-Frankfurt.
Award for Kirsty Sinclair Dootson’s collaborative research on Chinese colour cinema
Kirsty Sinclair Dootson’s co-authored article wins Screen Biennial Award with collaborator Zhaoyu Zhu (King’s College London).
Re-imagining Local Film Histories through Critical and Creative Practice: 1300 SHOTS (Mark Lyken, 2020)
Mark Lyken’s film 1300 SHOTS, made with the support of the Department of Film Studies, and partly funded by the University’s ‘Knowledge Exchange and Impact grant’ is having its premiere online later this month.
Post-screening discussion with Shireen Seno, director of Big Boy (2013) at Cample Line
Lecturer in Film Studies Dr Philippa Lovatt will be taking part in a discussion with director Shireen Seno about her film Big Boy (Philippines, 2013) this weekend (Sunday 31 January).