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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.
José Arroyo lectures at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión) in Cuba
José Arroyo has just returned from a two week stint at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, recently voted in the top five filmmaking schools to watch by The Hollywood Reporter. The school was founded in 1986 by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Argentine poet Fernando Birri and the Cuban producer Julio García Espinosa with the support of then-President Fidel Castro in order to provide as close to an ideal context for students from the ‘Three Worlds’ of Africa, Asia and Latin America to study filmmaking. The three founders dreamed up an ingenious system of workshop-based teaching where directors, sound men, cinematographers, critics, academics and just about anyone involved with any aspect of film culture arrive for a two week period, teach what they know, and then the same mini-bus that returns them to the airport brings in a new set of skilled people willing to share their knowledge. It’s a very effective system and one available now to students from ‘Todos los mundos’/ All the worlds.’ Arroyo was honoured to have been invited to lecture on The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch’ and on ‘The Musical’.
Below are some photographs taken by José during his visit:
Current PhD student Catherine Lester wins Warwick HRC Doctoral Fellowship competition to put on one-day interdisciplinary conference
Catherine Lester, who is currently researching the children's horror film for her PhD in Film and Television Studies has won the Warwick Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship competition, which provides funding to put on a one-day interdisciplinary conference. Details of the conference - which is titled "Let's Hear It For The Girls": Discussing Girls and Girlhood, 1990-present - are now available online at this web page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/girls/
The conference is due to take place on 12th March 2016 here at Warwick and is co-organised by Catherine and Leah Phillips, a PhD student in the English department.
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