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Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong announce 'DINO'S TOP TEN: TEN PODCASTS ABOUT LEGENDARY FILM PRODUCER DINO DE LAURENTIIS'

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:53:37 GMT

Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong announce 'DINO'S TOP TEN', a ten-episode podcast series about legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis.

Chris O’Rourke wins the Best Article Award at BAFTSS 2025

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:34:56 GMT

The department would like to congratulate Chris on this achievement, alongside Tiago de Luca for receiving an honourable mention!

James C. Taylor publishes ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:32:00 GMT

Today sees the digital publication of James C. Taylor’s monograph, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’ You may already be able to access via university affiliation at the following link.

Physical copies will be available in 2 weeks.

James MacDowell’s new article, ‘Breaking (and making) the Fourth Wall on YouTube’ is now published (and is open access) in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:35:00 GMT

Alastair Phillips shortlisted for the 'Excellent Supervision' award at the Annual Warwick Research Celebration

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:00:14 GMT

Alastair Phillips has been shortlisted for the 'Excellent Supervision' award at the Annual Warwick Research Celebration. The event takes place on Monday 7 April (13:30–18:30) at The Slate. The awards will be presented between 14:00 and 15:00

Film and TV's Chris O'Rourke and Tiago de Luca Nominated for Best Chapter/Edited Collection in the BAFTSS Awards 2025!

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:38:19 GMT

Wishing them both the best of luck!

Stephen Gundle to Give the Keynote Address at a Symposium marking the Centenary of Italian Screen Actor Marcello Mastroianni.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:33:52 GMT

Stephen Gundle will be giving the keynote address at a Symposium to mark the centenary of Italian screen actor Marcello Mastroianni. The event is to be held at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Friday 13 December.

FTV’s Hande Çayır publishes pedagogical article and launches new film on documentary sceening platform Guide.Doc.tv

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:17:07 GMT

FTV’s Hande Çayır publishes reflection piece on inclusive pedagogy in the latest issue of The Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice

Hande Çayır’s reflection piece has been published in the latest issue of The Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice. The article shares strategies found to be effective by a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for creating inclusive seminars, emphasising the importance of understanding diverse student needs, valuing feedback, and fostering a collaborative and supportive learning environment.

Vol. 4 (2024): Issue 4: Re/De-Constructing the Teaching Space Piece by Piece | Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice

FTV’s Hande Çayır’s experimental film Tiny Little Things is now available on the documentary streaming platform GuideDoc.tv

Set in Brighton, the 20-minute film presents the visual diary of a woman from Turkey, offering an intimate glimpse into her journey. It has been showcased at platforms, including the European International Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival, Art Beats Festival, and Shortfilmwire+ Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Network.

Tiny Little Things - Documentary Film | Watch Online

Professor Helen Wheatley Launches New Book at Coventry Cathedral

Tue, 14 May 2024 10:38:00 GMT

Television/Death intertwines the study of death, dying and bereavement on television with discussion of the ways that television (and the TV archive) provides access to the dead. Helen introduced the book at this event and invited to collaborators to respond to the work, prior to a drink reception. The event was held Coventry Cathedral as this special place was one of the key locations for the events discussed in the final section of the book.

Funding Success for AHRC Project 'Women in Italian Film Production: Industrial Histories and Gendered Labour, 1945-85'

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 10:49:58 GMT

Stephen Gundle, of Film and Television Studies, has received funding of £970,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a three-year research project on the place of women in the Italian film industry in the decades after World War Two. The project builds on work undertaken by Stephen and Karl Schoonover between 2016 and 2019 on a previous AHRC project about producers and production practices in Italian cinema. The other investigators on the new project – which begins in February 2023 - will be Daniela Treveri Gennari and Silvia Dibeltulo of Oxford Brookes University.