Bruce Bennett

Tag: Film history

  • Revolutionary films: The cinematic history of cycling

    Revolutionary films: The cinematic history of cycling

    I learnt recently that I’ve been awarded a 12-month research fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to undertake a research project on the history of cycling in cinema, exploring the changing relationship between these parallel industrial technologies. The project begins with the early experiments with cinema during the Victorian period and tracks the development of screen cultures of…

  • The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love

    The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love

    The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love Bruce Bennett, Lancaster University UK. 15/3/14 (This paper was delivered at Screening Style: Costume, Cinema and Performance, a symposium on costume design I organised with Dr Catherine Spooner (Dept. of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster). Details about the event can…