Department of Film Studies

Tue 24th March 2009 17:15 to 19:15

CFS Talk: Changing Minds, Bodies and Identities in the Pill-films of Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Mr Fleming willopen up a philosophical investigation into the work of ‘nomadic’ filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, who opportunistically tapped into the US head-cinema movement during the 1970s.

Fri 20th March 2009 17:00 to Sat 21st March 2009 17:30

Postgraduate Conference: Post-Communist Visual Culture and Cinema: Interdisciplinary Studies, Methodology, Dissemination

With AHRC support and the joint participation of the Centre for Film Studies and The Centre for Russian, Soviet and Eastern European Studies at the University of St. Andrews, this postgraudate conference unites junior and senior scholars in the exploration of collective frameworks for the study of postcommunist visual culture

Wed 18th March 2009 18:00 to 20:00

Queer Cinema Screenings at the Centre for Film Studies: FIRE (Deepa Mehta, 1996)

This term we are showing some extremely interesting films as part of our Queer Cinema group. No need for any prior knowledge of Queer theory, just come and enjoy these great films! This week's film is FIRE (Deepa Mehta, 1996).

Tue 10th March 2009 17:00 to 19:00

CFS and MECACS Roundtable Discussion: ‘What, if anything, remains post-communist in the Cinemas of Central Europe, the Balkans and Central Asia?’

Roundtable Discussion with John Cunningham (Sheffield Hallam University), Professor Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews) and Dr Sally Cummings (University of St Andrews)