Centre for Screen Studies

Staff and postgraduate students in Film & Television Studies participate actively in the work of the Centre for Screen Studies. This Centre brings together academics and students across the University who are interested in the study of film and television. It provides a space in which we can share our own work and welcome speakers from all over Britain and beyond.

Recent events

Wednesday 1 June 2011
Karina Aveyard, a visiting PhD candidate from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and holder of Australian Research Council Linkage Grant in conjunction with the University of East Anglia, will present a research workshop. At this event Karina will be talking about her own work on Cinema Exhibition and Attendance in Contemporary Rural Australia  and the practicalities of organising and carrying out audience research.

Wednesday 23 March 2011
Dr Sarah Neely, University of Stirling, will talk 'the poetics of space in the films of Margaret Tait'.

Tuesday 22 February 2011
Professor Nick Pearce, School of Culture and Creative Arts will speak about his interest in Lost Horizon (1937).

Monday 24 January 2011
Dr Jennifer Smyth (University of Warwick), ‘Julia: Wanted Dead or Alive/ Women's Historical Films and the Legacy of Citizen Kane'. Dr Smyth is a distinguished scholar from Yale and Warwick Universities with a particular interest in the workings of race and gender in American historical films. She is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema From 'Cimarron' to 'Citizen Kane' and is currently working on an edited collection entitled Hollywood and the American Historical Film.