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Jake Benson, currently in the third year of his Film Studies BA here at Warwick, recently played the character Joe in Ian Townsend's new play The Lonely Walk Home, alongside CJ de Mooi as Lawrence. The Lonely Walk Home ran from 01 February 2016 to 12 February 2016 at the Taurus in Manchester.

Read a review of the play from Manchester Theatre Awards here

'Disconnection', a short film by current undergraduate student Ben Meads, has been included in the official selection for the National Student Film Festival in London. Screentest: The National Student Film Festival will take place 17th March - Saturday 19th March, closing with an awards ceremony on the Saturday night in Greenwich.

Find out more about the National Student Film Festival here: http://www.screentestfest.org.uk/

And more about Ben Meads' work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0pRCzfp9sw

And see Ben's entry below:

Dr Karl Schoonover will deliver the lecture ‘Can Objects Die?: Max Ophüls and Accumulation in America’ as part of the Cambridge Film and Screen Studies Research Seminars. This lecture comes from Schoonover's larger research project on how mid-twentieth-century American films captured modern culture's abiding apprehension towards a world dominated by waste and its toxicity.

The lecture will happen on Wednesday, the 17th of February at 5.15pm, English Faculty Building, GR05, at the University of Cambridge. For more details, follow this link:

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/film/research/seminars

The Department of Film and Television is delighted to announce that we have two MA Scholarships to award for the academic year 2016-17. Both scholarships are fee waivers only. The scholarships will be awarded to outstanding students proposing topics for further research which will enhance the research profile of the Department.

For more information click here

Edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge, Slow Cinema is a new anthology that 'Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history'. Published by Edinburgh University Press , it features Dr. Schoonover's important article "Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema’s Labouring Body, The Political Spectator, and the Queer", which was originally published in Framework Vol 53, No.1 (Spring 2012).

More information about the new volume here