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On October 17 Prof. Stella Bruzzi gave a keynote at the Film Costume / Rendering Realities conference at New York University, which focussed on film costume and history. A collaboration between two departments at NYU – the Cinema Studies program in Tisch School of the Arts and Costume Studies in NYU Steinhardt – Film Costume / Rendering Realities investigated film costume’s role in cinema’s multiple constructions of history and what impact those historical renditions have on culture.

On his blog First Impressions: Notes on Film and Culture Jose Arroyo has written about Robert Siodmak's 1944 film Phantom Lady and film noir. CLICK HERE to read the piece

Dr. Alastair Phillips has contributed a new booklet essay on Thieves Highway (1949) to Arrow Films’ ongoing series of DVD releases of classic films by Jules Dassin. Phillips has also written essays on Dassin’s The Naked City (1948) and Rififi (1955) for the series and is the author of a book on the latter film.

Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Frame, who graduated with a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the Dept. in 2012. Supervised by Professor Stella Bruzzi, he completed a thesis entitled The American President in Film and Television, which he then went on to publish as a monograph with Peter Lang: The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation

Dr. Helen Wheatley will be on the Radio 4 Today programme on Monday morning (October 28th) talking about the Story of Children’s Television exhibition and children’s TV history. Keep an ear out for her between 8.20am and 9am.