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The British Association of Film and Television Studies has shortlisted the work of Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson and Julie Jaresova (graduated 2023) in their annual awards.

Date 18 February 2024
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Chronicle of a train journey undertaken by a team of film scholars in search of archival materials that will bring back to life one of the most radical experiments of film technology transfer to the Bolivian proletariat.

Date 18 February 2024
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Dr Tyler Parks has won a Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Grant for his project ‘Infrastructural Cinema and the Remaking of the American West: Filmmaking at the United States Bureau of Reclamation, 1930-1965'

Date 12 February 2024
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