Department of Film Studies

Tue 27th November 2012 17:15 to 19:00

CFS Talk: Lucy Donaldson, Textural Worlds

This paper will focus on the potential of texture to contribute to debates around narrative, place, and genre. It is part of a project that seeks to establish texture, in the context of its usage in other arts disciplines, as a crucial concept in film criticism, and its potential to enrich discussions of form and sensation in film.

Tue 13th November 2012 20:00 to 22:00

Romanian filmmaker Marian Crisan visits St Andrews

Award winning Romanian filmmaker Marian Crisan will present his film Morgen to St. Andrews audiences at 8pm on Tuesday 13 November 2012 at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews.

Tue 13th November 2012 17:15 to 19:00

CFS Talk: David Sorfa, Taking Seriously the Fiction of Film: Preston Sturges and Wes Anderson

Traditionally film theory tends to concentrate on film's relationship to reality (to which it is seen as subordinate), but this talk will consider the ontology and epistemology of fiction itself as it is played out in the films of Preston Sturges and Wes Anderson.

Tue 6th November 2012 17:15 to 19:00

CFS Talk: Digital Poetics, Collaboration and the Interactivity: Screenings and Discussion with Roderick Coover

This event will feature the presentation of works by Roderick Coover with discussion around topics of documentary cinematic arts and digital poetics.