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The Complete University Guide ranks us first in the country for Film and Television Studies

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, an independent guide to third level education in the UK. For more information, and to see how the results are calculated, CLICK HERE.

Thu 30 Apr 2015, 12:11 | Tags: media teaching News

Dr. Alastair Phillips takes part in roundtable event at Flatpack Film Festival on the benshi in Japanese cinema

Alastair Phillips recently took part in a roundtable event at the Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham on the role of the benshi in classical Japanese cinema. He also introduced a rare screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s A Woman of Tokyo (1933). Find out more about the event HERE

Mon 27 Apr 2015, 13:38 | Tags: engagement staff News Research impact

Dr. Helen Wheatley featured in BBC Radio 4 programme on the occult in 60s and 70s Britain

On Saturday 25 April Dr. Helen Wheatley will feature in the Archive on 4 programme 'Black Aquarius', which examines the wave of interest in the occult in the popular culture of 1960s and 1970s Britain. Find more information about the programme HERE.

Wed 22 Apr 2015, 10:06 | Tags: media staff News Research impact

Anne Birchall and Tracey McVey feature on BBC One's Pointless

'How to ace Pointless? You might ask Anne Birchall, who worked as a secretary in the Department of Film and Television Studies until she retired last year, and Tracey McVey, the current Departmental Administrator, whose joint appearances on the programme were broadcast by the BBC on the 30th and 31st of March. You can see an excerpt below:

Sun 19 Apr 2015, 17:04 | Tags: media staff News

Karl Schoonover visits University of Florida's Center for European Studies to speak on the politics of queer European qinema

On April 9th Karl Schoonover (Warwick) and Rosalind Galt (Kings) gave the keynote talk "Queer cinema and the spaces of Europe" at the University of Florida.

Sponsored by Center for European Studies at the University of Florida

Queer cinema creates worlds. It intervenes in existing debates on the national, transnational and global as well as envisioning new modes of being in the world. This talk will explore how contemporary queer films are imagining Europe, and how dissident gender and sexual identities intersect with persistent questions of
European politics, spaces, and identities. It will analyze border-crossing films (e.g. Dvojina, Unveiled, Edge of Heaven), considering how tropes of immigration and mobility articulate sexuality with race, nationality, and marginality within and outside the EU. In interrogating queer European cinema, it will consider both art films (She Male Snails, Wedding Song) and popular genres, such as the lesbian romcom (Stud Life, I Can’t Think Straight) and the gay road movie (Parade, Adventures of Felix). By examining a range of cinematic styles and genres, the talk will draw out queer cinema’s richly varied responses to debates on homonationalism, multiculturalism, and queer belonging in today’s Europe.
More information here:
Mon 13 Apr 2015, 14:44 | Tags: staff News Research impact

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