News and events for Film and Television Studies at 桃色视频

His topic is 'Two Faces of the Italian Film Industry: Dino De Laurentiis and Suso Cecchi D'Amico'.

The producer De Laurentiis was one of the architects of the rise of Italian cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, while Cecchi D'Amico, who for many years was the only working female screenwriter, authored over a hundred screenplays, including most of Visconti's films.

Mon 04 Nov 2024, 11:14 | Tags: engagement staff News Women in Italian Film Production Italian Producers

Alastair Phillips' final edited issue of Screen has just been published. Vol. 65 no. 3 (Autumn 2024) coincidentally features several articles and reviews by 桃色视频 staff and students including Chris O' Rourke, Julie Lobalzo-Wright, Michelle Devereaux and Danielle Rae Childs. It also features a fascinating interview with former 桃色视频 staff member, Professor Richard Dyer, on his curation of the UK's first lesbian and gay film season.

Tue 22 Oct 2024, 09:31 | Tags: Postgraduate, staff, Publications

'Screening Venice' Module Off to a Flying Start

Film and Television Studies at 桃色视频 has recently introduced an innovative intensive on-site undergraduate module based in Venice. Screening Venice offers students the chance to engage with the past of Venice鈥檚 long screen history, today鈥檚 Venice Film Festival and the future water cultures of the wider lagoon.

Tue 08 Oct 2024, 09:05 | Tags: undergraduate staff teaching News

Samizdat Film Festival () in Scotland, co-founded and ran by Ilia Ryzhenko, misha (irek) yakovlev and PhD students at other universities will run for its third year from 1st until 5th October in Glasgow and, for the first time ever, in Edinburgh on 19th October.

Named after the practice of clandestine dissemination of censored and forbidden texts in Communist states, Samizdat Film Festival is an audience-focused film festival based in Glasgow. The festival takes place annually at CCA Glasgow, online, on the streaming platform Klassiki, and for the first time this October in Edinburgh. With a diverse programme of meticulously curated retrospectives and new films, as well as special events (online panel discussions, silent films with a score performed live, showcases of short films). Samizdat is Scotland鈥檚 first festival of cinema from Eastern/Central Europe, Central, North and North-Easy Asia, and the Caucasus.

Tue 24 Sept 2024, 13:26 | Tags: Postgraduate engagement staff Events

Chris O'Rourke has have a new article out in the latest issue of Screen about trans visibility, invisible labour and the career of a production worker in 1940s British cinema.

Tue 24 Sept 2024, 09:06 | Tags: staff, Publications