Department of Film Studies

Wed 27th October 2010 17:15 to 19:15

CFS Talk: Professor Liesbet Van Zoonen, Islam on the Popular Battlefield: How Young People Contest Islamophobia on YouTube

Please note that this talk takes place on Wednesday, rather than the usual Tuesday. This talk looks at the anti-Islam film Fitna, made by Dutch MP Geert Wilders in 2008, and how young people have uploaded self-made or copied videos to YouTube by way of response.

Tue 12th October 2010 17:15 to 19:15

CFS Talk: Professor Robert Rosenstone, The Historical film as History, a Field, a Pack of Tricks We Play Upon the Dead

Thirty years ago the historical, the feature film which dramatized topics set in the past, was hardly considered a genre, let alone a legitimate object of study; today it is a field flooded with essays and books. This lecture looks at the variety of approaches currently taken to the historical film, to assess what is at stake in the sorts of studies it has spawned, focusing particularly on the differences in those undertaken by Historians and those scholars in Film or Cultural Studies.

Sun 10th October 2010 10:00 to 16:00

Film and History Symposium with Professor Robert Rosenstone

The focus of this one-day symposium, which is free and open to the public, is the role of film as a medium of historical analysis and historiographic critique. The symposium will feature leading and emerging scholars and will be centrally concerned with the key work of Robert Rosenstone, a visiting professor at St Andrews during the month of October.