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Dept. of Film and Television Studies hosts Children's Television Conference
On the 6th and 7th of July the Dept. is hosting a conference on Children's Television, organised by Dr. Helen Wheatley and Dr. Rachel Moseley.
Accompanying the major exhibition ‘The Story of Children’s Television, 1946 to the Present Day’, a collaboration between the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum and the University of Warwick, this conference seeks to combine discussion of the history of children’s programming with analysis and reflection on the current landscape of children’s television and its future. The conference wishes to acknowledge and analyse the significance of children’s programming in the broader context of television production, and to discuss its production as both a creative process and a business enterprise. It will reflect on the place of children’s television in the broader history of the medium, and in relation to notions of cultural heritage, collective remembering and nostalgia. It also offers a space for scholars to consider the impact of change on the production and circulation of children’s television, and for discussion about viewing practices and the particular issues raised by studying the child viewer.
The schedule for the conference can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/research/childrenstv/
Dr. Helen Wheatley gives keynote at The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present at UEA
Dr. Helen Wheatley will be a keynote speaker at the conference 'The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present at UEA' hosted by the University of East Anglia at The Forum, Norwich. The conference takes place on June 26th and 27th, 2015. Dr. Wheatley will present a paper entitled 'The Ghosts of Gothic Television'.
More information here: https://www.uea.ac.uk/film-television-media/news-and-events/-/asset_publisher/kjSGAyICejY5/blog/the-return-of-the-repressed-gothic-studies-past-and-future-at-uea/10165
Prof. Stella Bruzzi publishes '"It Won't be Iraq They'll Remember Me For, Will It?": Tony Blair and Dramatisations of the 'War on Terror'.
Dr. Paul Cuff publishes 'A Revolution for the Screen: Abel Gance's Napoleon'
Dr. Paul Cuff, Associate Fellow in the Dept. of Film and Television Studies, has published a new book on Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon.
The book is published by Amsterdam University Press, and distributed by University of Chicago Press in the USA. Find more information here: http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089647344-a-revolution-for-the-screen.html
and it can be purchased here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Screen-Napoleon-Culture-Transition/dp/9089647341
Abel Gance’s silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subjected it to savage cuts—with devastating results for the movie and for film history. The struggle across ensuing decades to restore and reintegrate Gance’s film has formed a backdrop to an array of formal, contextual, and ideological battles. In this book, Paul Cuff takes account of those battles and challenges received opinion on Gance’s view of both his film and its subject.
Announcing 2015-16 MA Scholarships in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick
The Department of Film and Television Studies is delighted to announce two MA Scholarships to be awarded for the academic year 2015-16. The scholarships will be awarded to outstanding students proposing topics for further research that will enhance the research profile of the Department.
Applications will be judged on the following criteria:
- The quality of the proposal and ideas for future research,
- The quality of the applicant’s writing sample (to be submitted with their application),
- Past academic performance (including any publications/prizes),
- Professional and extracurricular activities,
- Future career plan and the relevance of the MA to this plan.
Applicants must apply to join the MA via the University of Warwick’s electronic application system (warwick.ac.uk/pgapply
) and make a separate application for the Department’s MA Scholarships here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/applying/postgraduate/taught/howtoapply/mascholarship
For more general information on the programme, go here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/current/postgrads/taughtma/
Both of these applications must have been made by the 1st of July 2015. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by the 15th of July.
Any questions can be directed to Dr Karl Schoonover at k.schoonover@warwick.ac.uk
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