Department of Film Studies

Simon Field donation in recognition of the Film Festivals Project

Cannes-winning producer of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives' (2010) and celebrated former director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Simon Field, has donated his archive of festival materials to the project on international film festivals - run at the University of St. Andrews by Prof. Dina Iordanova.

Brian Jacobson Lecture: "The Architectural History of Studio Production at Gaumont"

Brian Jacobson will give a lecture at the Alice Guy-Blaché: Transatlantic Sites of Cinema Nouveau, 1896-1920 conference at the University of Maryland, Friday, November 9th, 2012.

Joshua Yumibe's book, Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism officially launched

Joshua Yumibe's book, Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, released July 2012) was officially launched at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, October 6-13, in Pordenone, Italy. The Giornate honoured the book by selecting it for festival distribution, purchasing 200 copies for festival donors.

Dennis Hanlon invited to give a talk on Sanjinés at Florida Atlantic University on 1 November 2012, 4pm

“Jorge Sanjines’ All-Encompassing Sequence Shot: From Revolutionary Practice to Indigenismo?” - Talk sponsored by FAU Peace Studies Program, at Florida Atlantic University on 1 November 2012, 4pm

A visual essay depicting an early sequence shot in La Nación Clandestina (1989) / by Dennis Hanlon

Dennis Hanlon, Lecturer in Film Studies has just published his illustrated translation of Jorge Sanjines' La Nación Clandestina (1989) in JumpCut.

From Silver Screen to the 18th Green

As part of the Cinema St Andrews project, staff and students at the Department of Film Studies have organised a small exhibition, in partnership with Dunhill, showing some great black and white images of Film Stars on the golf course at St Andrews (including Rita Hayworth and Sean Connery). The exhibition is at the Old Course Hotel for the next couple of days.

Prof. Dina Iordanova has been elected member of the Danish Council for Independent Research for the Humanities.

Prof. Dina Iordanova has been elected member of the Danish Council for Independent Research for the Humanities. Congratulations to Prof. Iordanova!