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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.

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)

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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.

On the first of December, the department's Karl Schoonover will speak on the opening plenary of the three-day international conference at the Università di Torino, called "Intorno al Neorealismo: voci, contesti, linguaggi e culture dell’Italia del dopoguerra" ["In and around Neorealism"]. His talk is entitled, "Gli sguardi del dopoguerra: neorealismo e altri" ["Postwar gazes: Neorealist and otherwise"].

The Department is pleased to announce that we have been ranked first in the category of Dance, Drama and Cinematics by The Complete University Guide 2016, an independent guide to third level education in the UK. For more information, and to see how the results are calculated, CLICK HERE.

Andy Taylor, will in the Department at 1pm today (Friday 20^th Nov) to talk to us about his work. He will talk about his job bringing films and games to life for a young audience of millions. Andy set up the ‘When Chris Stark met Mila Kunis’ interview which went viral on YouTube. He produced the ground-breaking ‘Radio 1 Rescores: Drive’ collaboration with BBC3 and Zane Lowe. He negotiates with the major film studios and publicists to deliver A-list movie stars to the airwaves. Andy is also a radio producer and documentary maker, and is currently directing and producing an iPlayer film about Star Wars.

Andy will be talking about working with film stars (the highs and the lows), how media providers must adapt their content and delivery as their audience’s habits change (for example Radio 1 now produces a vast amount of visual content as well as radio shows), the challenges of making content for young audiences, the under-representation of Gaming in popular mainstream media… and what employers are looking for in the next generation of production and presenting talent.

Andy will also be joined by Lucy Kent, Publicity Manager for Universal Pictures who will talk about her role and her route into film marketing.

Andy will also introduce a piece of Movie content for Radio 1 he is working on next year - he’s looking for new young people who can talk passionately about film on the radio. Whilst this is a one-off project, there is a chance that this could lead to further film reviewing work for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. This is your chance to meet him and put yourself forward to take part.

The talk will take place at 1pm in 028. Andy and Lucy will then be happy to talk to people individually about either taking part in the Radio 1 film reviewing project or going into film marketing in 026 after the talk.