Screen Media Research Group

Easter Term 2010

26 April
Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire)
Remembrance of Things Unspoken: 'Mademoiselle O' by Vladimir Nabokov and Jérôme Foulon

10 May
Lilya Kaganovsky
(University of Illinois)
Early Soviet Film Sound: Looking at Aleksandr Dovzhenko's 'Ivan and Aerograd'

24 May
Graduate Presentations:
Natalie Fullwood (Department of Italian)
Kitchens in Commedia All'italiana: Space,  Gender and Modernisation

Micah Trippe (Department of Architecture)
The Case of the French City Symphony

 

Michaelmas Term 2009 

Alternative Mondays 5.15-7pm at CRASSH

12 October
Dr Maria Salazkina (Colgate University)
Encounters in political modernism: Road map Moscow - Rome – Havana

26 October
Dr Samir Shah (Juniper TV)
Documentary: Truths and fictions

9 November
Professor Mary Wood (Birkbeck College London)
Achieving that auteur profile in the context of contemporary European cinema

23 November
Graduate presentations:
Piotr Cieplak
Past, present, future: Photographs of the Rwandan genocide and Its aftermath

Tatjana Ljujic
Blankness, silence, stillness: People on view in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon

Lent Term 2010

18 January
Dr Judith Buchanan (University of York)
Screen vamps, seductive scents and commercially fed fantasies in 1920s Hollywood

1 February
Graduate presentations:

 i. Neil Archer (Dept of French), Between transnational cinema and tourist  cinema: the question of interpretation in Gela and Temur Babluani's Legacy
ii. Richard Armstrong (Dept of French),  “Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows...” Configuring absence, inference, suggestion and intuition in the moving image

15 February
Prof. Richard Dyer (King’s College London)
Blaxploitation: the Music

1 March
Dr Maria Salazkina (Colgate University)
Encounters in political modernism: Road map Moscow – Rome – Havana