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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.

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 1^st of July 2015. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by the 15^th of July.

Any questions can be directed to Dr Karl Schoonover at k.schoonover@warwick.ac.uk

Dr. Rachel Moseley has co-authored an article for The Conversation with Gemma Goodman (Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick) on the male body as contested regional territory in Outlander and Poldark. You can read it HERE

In the current issue of Screen journal, Schoonover asks why queer film festivals around the world so frequently evade the image of the human in their advertising campaigns. The essay can be found here: 'Queer or Human?: Film Festivals, Human Rights and Global Film Culture'

Three of the department’s PhD students - Barbara Ottmann, Zoë Shacklock and James Taylor - are on the organisational board for this interdisciplinary symposium that will be held on 27th May.

On 27th May at Millburn House, the PGR community is hosting an inaugural interdisciplinary symposium as part of the Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Research Festival, to provide a platform for postgraduates across the faculty to share and discuss research. The broad theme for the day is “Representation in the Arts”, and our programme of papers, performance pieces, and roundtable discussions will approach this theme from a diverse range of perspectives. The symposium aims to be the springboard for a more permanent interdisciplinary network of researchers, and we look forward to welcoming the PGR community.

Follow us on twitter for live updates @millburnsymp, and join the discussion with #MHSymposium.

For more information, including the symposium programme and abstracts, click here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cadre/current_students/artspgfestival/millburnsymposium/