Screen Award

£1000 Screen award for excellence in Screen Studies

In 1994 Screen created an occasional Award of £1000 to go to the writer(s) of the best article or research paper(s) submitted to the journal during a particular year. The aim of the Award was to promote research and scholarship in screen studies and to encourage new and younger scholars. Entries were judged anonymously.

The Screen award is not currently running.

Previous winners:

The 2006/07 Award winner was Chris Cagle (Temple University), for 'Two modes of prestige film', Screen, vol. 48, no. 3.

The 2004/05 award was made to two authors: Helen Piper (University of Bristol), for 'Reality TV, Wife Swap and the Drama of Banality', Screen, vol. 45, no. 4; and Malin Wahlberg (Stockholm University), for 'Wonders of Cinematic Abstraction: JC Mol and the Aesthetic Experience of Science Film', Screen, vol. 47, no. 3.

The winner of the Award for manuscripts submitted in 2002, was Jodi Brooks (University of New South Wales) for 'Ghosting the machine: the sounds of tap and the sounds of film', Screen, vol. 44, no. 4.

The 1998-9 winner was Julianne Pidduck (then Warwick University, now Lancaster University), for 'Of windows and country walks: frames of space and movement in 1990s Austen adapations', Screen, vol. 39, no. 4.

The 1996-7 winner was Lalitha Gopalan (Georgetown University, Washington DC), for  'Avenging women in Indian cinema', Screen, vol. 38, no. 1.

In 1994-5 the judges selected joint winners: Ravi Vasudevan (Centre for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi) for  'Addressing the spectator of a 'third world' national cinema: the Bombay "social" film of the 1940s and 1950s', Screen, vol. 36, no. 4; and Shelley Stamp Lindsey (Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz) for: 'Is any girl safe?: female spectators at the white slave films', Screen, vol. 37, no. 1.