Tag: Film Studies
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The world’s first micro-film festival
During the pandemic lockdown when Lancaster University switched to remote learning for the academic year starting in October 2020, among other problems, we were faced with the challenge of what our new Film Studies students would do during Fresher’s week. The need for social distancing precluded any introductory group events, but in any case, many…
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Teaching Transnational Cinema – book review
A recent, pleasingly positive review in the December 2016 edition of the online Film Studies journal, Senses of Cinema, here of Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy, the book I edited with my friend, Katarzyna Marciniak, which deals with issues around teaching and researching transnational cinema.
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The cinema of Michael Winterbottom: borders, intimacy, terror
I’m very excited that my new book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror, is being published by Wallflower Press / Columbia University Press on 1st January, but have just found that the Kindle edition of the book has gone on sale on amazon today: http://goo.gl/Yy6TKJ
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‘Perspectives on Production Design’, Lancaster University, March 2013.
In March this year I organised a one-day research symposium on production design in cinema at Lancaster University. This video is of the introductory keynote paper by Prof. Sir Christopher Frayling, which includes a historical survey of approaches to film production design and outlines some of the key issues for scholars and critics studying this…
Bruce Bennett 