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Dr. Karl Schoonover's article 'Wastrels of Time' re-published in new volume on Slow Cinema
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).
Dr. Rachel Moseley on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire Breakfast Show
Dr. Rachel Moseley spoke to Trish Adudu and Jo Tidman about her new book 'Handmade Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974' on Trish and Jo at Breakfast on BBC Radio Conventry and Warwickshire on December 28, 2015
Dr. Rachel Moseley publishes new book on Stop-Frame Animation for Children
We are pleased to annouce that Dr. Rachel Moseley's new book 'Handmade Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974' has just been published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Hand-Made Television explores the ongoing enchantment of many of the much-loved stop-frame children's television programmes of 1960s and 1970s Britain. The first academic work to analyse programmes such as Pogles' Wood (1966), Clangers (1969), Bagpuss (1974) (Smallfilms) and Gordon Murray's Camberwick Green (1966), Trumpton (1967) and Chigley (1969), the book connects these series to their social and historical contexts while providing in-depth analyses of their themes and hand-made aesthetics. Hand-Made Television shows that the appeal of these programmes is rooted not only in their participatory address and evocation of a pastoral English past, but also in the connection of their stop-frame aesthetics to the actions of childhood play. This book makes a significant contribution to both Animation Studies and Television Studies; combining scholarly rigour with an accessible style, it is suitable for scholars as well as fans of these iconic British children's programmes.
Dr Schoonover to give invited talk at conference in Sardinia
At the conference 'ESTETICA, IDENTITÀ E INDUSTRIA CULTURALE DEL CINEMA LOCALE
Sardegna e periferie europee dagli anni Novanta a oggi', the department's Karl Schoonover will deliver a talk entitled, "Sardinia, cinematic space, and departicularised place" on 14 December. For more information, go here.
Dr. Rachel Moseley gives workshop on Research Impact at Birmingham City University
On 2 December at 4pm, Dr. Rachel Moseley will discuss research impact in relation to media history research at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR)
For more information click here.
Abstract:
'The Story of Children's Television, 1946 to Today": Public Engagement and Impact Through Television History'
In this presentation I will elaborate on the development and planning of the recent exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry: 'The Story of Children's Television, 1946 to Today.' The exhibition was planned from the start to produce engagement and impact, and the talk will explore the ways in which this was acheived, in the lead-up to the exhibition, during its stay in Coventry and as it tours the country until 2018. The talk will explore the distinctions between engagement and impact, the value of media history within the humanities for enabling researchers and universities to achieve this, as well as the difficulties of building it into research.
This will be followed by a discussion about creative approaches to research impact, particularly for media history research.
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