Postgraduate student Yun Mi Hwang
Since we launched only 5 years ago, our department has enjoyed a vibrant research culture.
We have welcomed visiting scholars such as Mette Hjort, Robert Burgoyne (who has joined us as a permanent staff member!) and most recently noted US film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
We offer numerous events to enrich the film culture of the community, both town and gown, offering a range of visiting scholars and film makers as well as film screenings. Developing our committment to film culture, we hosted International Film Festival Workshop which brought together scholars and industry professionals and have started to bring Film Festivals to St Andrews, including the Italian Film Festival, the French Film Festival and the African Film Festival (part of the Africa in Motion Edinburgh African Film Festival).
Meanwhile, we welcome an array of publications, including Dr David Martin-Jones' Scotland: Global Cinema, Dr Elisabetta Girelli's Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema, Prof Dina Iordanova and Dr Ragan Rhyne's collection, Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit as well as Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagines Communities, edited by Prof Dina Iordanova with Dr Ruby Cheung. Joining this growing list is the newly released Moving People Moving Images, Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe, co-written by Dr William Brown, Prof Dina Iordanova, and Dr Leshu Torchin as well as Professor Robert Burgoyne's The Epic Film.
Please visit St Andrews Film Books for more information.
Film Studies at St Andrews
Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews is the newest department at Scotland's first university. We are dedicated to the study of cinema from a global perspective. Working at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level, we believe students of cinema should engage with a great diversity of practices, movements, genres, and forms.
At St Andrews, we move beyond the canon of Hollywood and European film to examine a wide range of ‘minor’ marginal and transnational cinemas. Alongside the major film movements of Europe, Asia and North America, we study the avant-garde, documentaries, animation, and cult films from around the world.
Staff expertise, a lively research environment of conferences, events, and screenings and plentiful resources (a newly refurbished lecture theatre and screening hall; a growing collection of international films, books, and journals) offer students the chance to study and experience the richness and variety that cinema, in all its forms, offers us as spectators.
** Interested in postgraduate study? Click here for more information on the programme or read our Film Studies Postgraduate Study brochure. Please contact us for further details.
Latest News
Sat 4th February 2012
Announcing the launch of a new free online database resource, dedicated to work on Deleuze and cinema.
Thu 19th January 2012
Dr Elisabetta Girelli to give a talk at Dundee Contemporary Arts
The weekend of 28-29 January, Dr. Elisabetta Girelli will discuss A Place In The Sun and Suddenly, Last Summer as two key films in the career of Elizabeth Taylor. While the first marks Taylor's screen entry into adulthood, the second shows her as an actress of great emotional maturity. This discussion is part of an event comprising two screenings and a talk.
Fri 16th December 2011
Joshua Yumibe's Work Featured in 50 Watts
Joshua Yumibe's archival work on the Davide Turconi Project and early colour was featured in December on the influential book and paper design blog, 50 Watts, curated by Will Schofield.
