New Book: Pop Cinema

The book Pop Cinema, co-edited by Prof Glyn Davis (Film Studies) and Dr Tom Day (Executive Director of the Film-makers’ Co-op, New York), has been published by Edinburgh University Press. … Read more

New book: The Interactive Documentary in Canada

The book The Interactive Documentary in Canada, co-edited by Prof Michael Brendan Baker (Sheridan College) and Dr Jessica Mulvogue, has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Interactive documentary emerged … Read more

Visualising Transnational Solidarity Workshop

Resistance print cultures, in the form of magazines, posters, pamphlets and other ephemera played a crucial role in coordinating, maintaining, and organizing anticolonial movements and solidarities in the global south. … Read more

Community Screenings of Palestinian Cinema

Community screenings present a unique opportunity to introduce local publics to lesser-known film cultures. They provide a framing through which foreign cinema makes sense in relation to local concerns as … Read more

PhD student Ilinca Vanau at BFMAF

March 2023 saw the 18th edition of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), an annual festival based in Berwick-upon-Tweed, showcasing new cinema and artists’ moving image works. The concentrated, wildly explorative, international … Read more

PhD Update: Lucy Szemetová

The PhD students in the Department of Film Studies are an active group, and continue to be, even under a global pandemic. Lucy Szemetová, a 1st year PhD student, for instance, has conducted a two-month fellowship at the Blinken Open Society Archives (Budapest, Hungary) where she has also secured a post. And she has hosted a free screening of The Free University (2019).