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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.
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
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.
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:
Karl Schoonover visits University of Florida's Center for European Studies to speak on the politics of queer European qinema
Sponsored by Center for European Studies at the University of Florida
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.
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