Department of Film Studies

CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES: PROGRAMME OF SEMESTER 2 EVENTS RELEASED

NEWS ITEM CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES: PROGRAMME OF SEMESTER 2 EVENTS RELEASED Our programme of research papers and special events for Semester 2 is now online. Semester 2 speakers include Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College), Brian Winston (Lincoln University), Núria Triana Toribio (University of Manchester), William Brown (University of St Andrews), and Justin Smith (University of Portsmouth). Our programme also includes a special screening of the documentary A Massacre Foretold with director Nick Higgins in attendance. You can check details by clicking the above link.

Faculty Update: Visiting Professor Mette Hjort and the publication of The Cinema of Small Nations (EUP)

We are delighted to announce the publication of Prof Mette Hjort's new co-edited collection, The Cinema of Small Nations (Edinburgh University Press). We invite you to celebrate the launch of the book on 4 December (17.15) at the Centre for Film Studies where she will present a paper on the plurality of transnationalism. Please see our events page for more information on the talk and book launch. For information on the book, please click on the link above.

Faculty Update: Prof. Dina Iordanova

Dina Iordanova’s work appeared in the five-volume Brazilian anthology on world cinema, Cinema no mundo, published in Sao Paulo and edited by Alessandra Meleiro. Her other recent publications include contributions to the new edition of BFI’s Cinema Book (ed. Pam Cook), which will be launched at London’s South Bank on November 22nd, and to the innovative take on authoritative world cinema historiography MOVIES: The Little Black Book, just published by Cassell under the editorship of Chris Fujiwara.

Faculty Update: Dr Leshu Torchin: Publication and Presentation

Leshu Torchin's essay, 'Since We Forgot: Remembrance and Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Virtual Archives' appears in the recently released, The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture, ed. Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas (Wallflower Press, 2007). She continued her exploration into the role of Internet video in social advocacy and witnessing in her paper 'Citizen Tube: Focus on Darfur', presented at the Future Histories of the Moving Image conference at the University of Sunderland, 16-18 November.