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Experience Coventry as you never have before at new University of Warwick exhibition

Coventry and Warwickshire residents are getting a second chance to see and experience artworks created as part of the Sensing the City project, previously shown in The Herbert in 2020.


BIFA longlists Lucy Brydon’s Body of Water for three awards

Body of Water, the debut feature film by director and screenwriter Lucy Brydon — who also teaches at her alma mater, the University of Warwick — has been longlisted for three British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).


What will the neighbours say?! Warwick academic helps uncovers house’s scandalous past

A Warwick legal history expert has been chosen as one of the voices bringing the past to life in the new series of the popular BBC Two show, A House Through Time, which returned yesterday evening. Dr Laura Lammasniemi, from Warwick Law School, will appear in the third episode of the new series, which sees David Olusoga and his team in Bristol.

Wed 27 May 2020, 11:09 | Tags: Film & Television, Film & TV, research, Academic staff, History, Law

Screening Rights Film Festival to return to Coventry and Birmingham

The University of Warwick supported Screening Rights Film Festival is returning to the West Midlands this November (21-24th) with ground-breaking films highlighting social justice issues.


Eleven young researchers selected to help Warwick deliver ambitious research strategy

The University of Warwick has been chosen to host eleven of 2019’s Leverhulme Early Career Fellows – just under ten per cent of the national total. Early Career Fellowships are awarded to enable young researchers to undertake a research project, under the supervision of a Warwick academic mentor, which will lead to publishable results and help them get a foothold on the academic career ladder. 


‘Lost’ Duke Ellington concert film found after over 50 years.

A filmed concert by legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington, considered by him to be his most important, has been found after being unseen and thought lost for over fifty years and will be shown to an audience for the first time since originally broadcast thanks to a project led by the University of Warwick.


Screening Rights Film Festival to open in Coventry and Birmingham

The fourth annual Screening Rights Film Festival, organised by Dr Michele Aaron of the University of Warwick's Department of Film and Tevlision, is to open this week in Coventry and Birmingham, showcasing films that explore themes relating to social justice.

Mon 15 Oct 2018, 14:58 | Tags: Film & Television, Film & TV, Film and television studies

The spies who loved him – what do real intelligence officers think of James Bond?

As a new art exhibition opens at Bletchley Park celebrating the James Bond series and exploring Bond creator Ian Fleming’s links to the secret world of intelligence and espionage, two University of Warwick academics reveal what real spies think of Fleming’s famous creation.


Dr Karl Schoonover receives Katherine Singer Kovács Award

The latest book by Dr Karl Schoonover, of the University of Warwick’s Department of Film and Television Studies, Queer Cinema in the World, has been named the 2017-2018 Katherine Singer Kovács Award for the year’s outstanding book in cinema and media studies by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).

Thu 25 Jan 2018, 14:24 | Tags: Film & Television, Awards

Classics expert honoured by University of Warwick

The University of Warwick has honoured an acclaimed Classics expert who has helped open up the ancient world to state school pupils including many in Coventry


Warwick researchers showcase independent film: Brown Willy

Researchers Dr Rachel Moseley, Director of the Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research and Dr Gemma Goodman, Associate Fellow in nineteenth and twentieth century literature at the University of Warwick are presenting Cornwall in a new way.


Research on spectacular TV and on-screen stardom scoops awards at BAFFTSS 2017

Two academics from the University of Warwick Film and Television Studies department have won prestigious awards for their research at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFFTSS) Awards in 2017.

Tue 25 Apr 2017, 14:26 | Tags: Film & Television, Film & TV, Awards, Arts

Warwick Honorary Graduate wins Oscar for Best Adapated Screenplay

Tarell McCraney, University of Warwick Honorary Graduate and former Warwick/RSC International Playwright in Residence for two years at the CAPITAL Centre, has won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight.


Female suffrage and pornography – the author of the Secret History of Wonder Woman explores the inspiration for the DC comic character

Female suffrage and pornography – the author of the secret history of Wonder Woman explores the inspiration for the DC comic character.


Teletubbies creator Anne Wood receives Honorary Doctorate

Last week children’s television producer and founder of Ragdoll productions Anne Wood was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick.


Scene-Referred: next generation video to be unveiled at IBC Amsterdam

The next generation of “Scene-Referred” High Dynamic Range (SR-HDR) video, developed by a European consortium led by WMG at the University of Warwick, will be demonstrated publicly for the first time at this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.


The spectacle of TV explored in new book

From beautiful landscapes to Embarrassing Bodies a new book by a University of Warwick academic examines what makes us stop and stare at the TV.


Dr Helen Wheatley discusses TV pioneer on BBC Radio 4

Dr Helen Wheatley television Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick spoke to Matthew Banister about the life and career of the late Sylvia Peters on BBC Radio 4’s Last Word programme.


Film studies ‘is a necessary part of life’ according to award-winning producer

The award-winning producer of the films City of God and The Constant Gardener, believes that the study of film is more than just an academic discipline. Donald Ranvaud made the comment after being conferred with an honorary doctorate during one of the University’s 2016 graduation ceremonies.


The magic of Clangers revealed for the first time

New book on children’s stop-frame animation by a researcher at University of Warwick investigates what Clangers, Pingwings and Pogles tell us about our society, history and Englishness.