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As part of Flatpack Film Festival's Celluloid City Weekend at mac Birmingham several members of the research team working on the AHRC funded research project The Projection Project will give talk about their work, and trace a century-spanning history of projection and projectionists, from fairground showmen to contemporary projection mapping. Dr. Jon Burrows and Dr. Michael Pigott will speak on Saturday the 21st at 4pm, and Claire Jesson will introduce a screening of Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road on Sunday at 2pm.

More information here: http://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/the-projection-project/

And to find out more about The Projection Project, click here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/research/current/theprojectionproject/

On Wednesday, the 18th of November, Schoonover will give a talk at King's College London entitled, 'Dario Argento's Refuse and Its Refusals'. His lecture will examine the politics of waste in the Italian director's most famous horror films from the 1970s and early 1980s, including Suspiria,4 mosche di vellluto grigio, Inferno, Profondo Rosso, and Tenebre. Argento's fixation on waste proposes an alternate materiality, departing from conventional understanding of the period as a moment of unparalleled economic opportunity and prosperity for Italy.

On Saturday 7 November Dr. Rachel Moseley and Dr. Helen Wheatley gave a 'Teatime Talk' on 'The Story of Children's Television' exhibition at the Herbert Gallery. Helen gave an overview of the early history of children's television in Britain and the Centre's collaboration with the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, whilst Rachel previewed work from her new book Handmade Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974. They greatly enjoyed discussing people's memories of children's television with the audience and the lively discussion that followed about the importance of protecting children's culture at a time of BBC Charter renewal. The event took place at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick, as part of Warwick Words: Festival of Literature and the Spoken Word, and was very well attended and received.

An international conference held at the Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, 12-13 November, 2015

Click here for conference details.

Organised by Louis Bayman, Stephen Gundle, Karl Schoonover

The release of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City in September 1945, just months after the Liberation of Italy, is a landmark in both cinema and Italian history. The film’s tale of popular resistance in Nazi-occupied Rome brought Italy to international audiences. It announced a new aesthetics of cinema - neorealism - that would have a global impact, attracting attention and often controversy for its bold assertion of the necessary relationship between art and politics. The film is a central reference point for cinematic realism and aesthetic radicalism, influencing movements from the French New Wave to Brazilian Cinema Novo, British social realism and Dogme 95. It remains a key influence for contemporary filmmakers as well as an important reference point in areas as diverse as cultural geography, gender studies, performance, historiography, aesthetic philosophy, and the study of war, fascism and torture.

Organised with the particpation of DAMS, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Universita' di Torino.

The University of Warwick’s Department of Film and Television Studies, in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Policy studies, is opening a new Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research on Wednesday 28th October 2015.

This newly formed centre will focus on television history, heritage and memory and the development of research, learning and training in collaboration with industry.

The establishment of the centre will enable the department to build upon its longstanding reputation for excellence in the field of historical television studies, and, over the coming years, the Centre plans to develop existing connections with television production companies and archives in order to deliver innovative, world-class postgraduate education and training.

The new Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research will develop bids for external funding for large scale and individual research projects, postdoctoral fellowships and collaborative doctoral training awards. There will be a regular programme of events which will include Visiting Scholars and other guest speakers, conferences, symposia and knowledge transfer events which will be public and industry-facing in addition to their more traditional address to an academic audience.

Dr Rachel Moseley, Director of the Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research said, “I’m delighted to announce the opening of the new Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research. The centre will provide fantastic opportunities to further our work on the history of television and the development of our research, learning and training in collaboration with industry.”

The team are keen to develop cross-disciplinary work on questions of television history, heritage and memory and to work with other organisations with a stake in our television heritage. So, whether you are scholar working in Television Studies or an adjacent field, or work for organisation that might wish to collaborate with the Centre and want to hear more about the plans for the Centre, please contact the Director, Dr Rachel Moseley:

Rachel.Moseley@warwick.ac.uk