Karl Schoonover & Rosalind Galt's Queer Cinema in the World wins the SCMS best book award.

Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt's Queer Cinema in the World (Duke University Press) reviewed in Cineaste.

Palgrave Macmillan have just published a new book by Jon Burrows: The British Cinema Boom, 1909-1914: A Commercial History. The book examines how the British cinema industry was created via an intensive capital investment boom in the space of a few short years before the outbreak of the First World War. It studies the backgrounds and commercial fortunes of people who sank money into Edwardian cinema businesses, and also considers the impact of the rapid expansion of the film exhibition sector upon film distribution and production in Britain during this formative period. Further details are available at http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137396761 

Dr. Tiago De Luca has edited a special themed issue of the journal Aniki on long duration films. The issue features a short history of long duration by Tiago, an article from Dept. Associate Fellow Dr. Paul Cuff, as well as contributions from Lúcia Nagib, Glyn Davis, May Adadol Ingawanij, Lúcia Ramos Monteiro, and William Brown.

You can access the issue here: http://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/15/showToc

The Dept. of Film and Television Studies are very proud to announce that two members of staff were award winners at the recent BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) awards. Dr. Helen Wheatley's book 'Spectacular Television' won Best Monograph and Lucy Bolton and Julie Lobalzo Wright won Best Edited Collection for 'Lasting Screen Stars'.

Find out more and see the full list of winners here: http://baftss.org/awards/outstanding-achievement-award/awards-2017/