Department of Film Studies

Wed 21st March 2012 09:15 to 17:30

Film Studies Postgraduate Open Day and 6th Annual Postgraduate Study Day: Ethics in Film

The 6th Annual Postgraduate Study Day will explore Ethics in Film, and will feature a keynote paper by Dr Libby Saxton, Queen Mary, University of London. The Postgraduate Study Day will take place on the same day. All welcome!

Sat 17th March 2012 09:30 to 18:00

War and Cinema Symposium

The war film is one of the great modes of cinematic expression and this symposium will explore four topics of contemporary critical interest. It is free and open to the public but registration is required and places are limited.

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

CFS Talk: Ravi Vasudevan: Film Infrastructures: Information, Communication and Exhibition Practices in Colonial and Early Independent India: 1920s-1950s

This paper is part of a project to explore the truly remarkable elaboration of film as an infrastructure of information, communication and exhibition in India in the first half of the twentieth century. Its focus is on the policies, technologies, patterns of consumption, and the geographies of circulation and exhibition through which film acquired this presence.

Sun 11th March 2012 19:00 to 22:00

60 Hour Film Blitz Gala Screening

See all the films produced by the participants in this year's 60 Hour Film Blitz! The event will include live music, an awards ceremony presided over by an expert panel of judges, and an after-party in the bar of the Byre Theatre.

Thu 8th March 2012 12:00 to Sun 11th March 2012 00:00

60 Hour Film Blitz

Do you fancy your chances as a filmmaker? Would you like your work to be screened in the Byre Theatre and seen and judged by the Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival? Then join this year's 60 Hour Film Blitz...

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

CFS Talk: Mark Jankovich, Vicious Cycles: The Industrial Development of the 1940s Horror Film

This paper will examine the industrail development of the cycle of Hollywood Studio horror films produced in the wake of Frankenstein, Dracula and Son of Kong and the ways in which these shaped in transformations between 1939 and 1946.