The Dept. of Film and Television Studies are very proud to announce that two members of staff were award winners at the recent BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) awards. Dr. Helen Wheatley's book 'Spectacular Television' won Best Monograph and Lucy Bolton and Julie Lobalzo Wright won Best Edited Collection for 'Lasting Screen Stars'.

Find out more and see the full list of winners here: http://baftss.org/awards/outstanding-achievement-award/awards-2017/

Working with collaborator, Professor Rosalind Galt (KCL), Dr Karl Schoonover has cowritten an essay for a new book investigating the politics and aesthetics of middlebrow cinema published by Routledge press. In this essay, Schoonover and Galt propose the category of queer middlebrow films and argue that the category has taken on a geopolitical weight in recent years, condensing the struggles of LGBT people internationally in ways that expand but also confine what it means to be queer in the world.

https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138777132

Michael Pigott has contributed an article to a special issue of the journal Performance Research on 'sleep'. The article, entitled 'The Image of Sleep' focusses on the way that the image of the sleeping body is used in Andy Warhol's Sleep and in a number of Joseph Cornell's films, but it considers these in relation to a wide range of ways that the sleeping body has been used in popular culture, from prints by Goya to Dark City and The Matrix.

Find out more about the issue here

and access it through your library here

The Dept. would like to congratulate Dr. Greg Frame on the nomination of his book The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation (Peter Lang, 2014) for Best Monograph by the organisation BAFTSS. Find out mor about the competition here: http://baftss.org/awards/awards-2016/ and about Greg's book here: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=72950&concordeid=430951

Edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge, Slow Cinema is a new anthology that 'Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history'. Published by Edinburgh University Press , it features Dr. Schoonover's important article "Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema’s Labouring Body, The Political Spectator, and the Queer", which was originally published in Framework Vol 53, No.1 (Spring 2012).

More information about the new volume here