2019 - 2020
Monday 28 October
Speaker: Professor Mattias Frey (University of Kent)
Choosing Films and Series in the Age of Netflix: Recommender Systems and the Remediation of Taste
Monday 18 November
Speaker: Professor Duncan Petrie (University of York)
A changing visual landscape: British cinematography in the 1960s
Monday 2 December
Speaker: Professor Erica Carter (King's College, London)
Locating Decolonisation: Kwame Nkrumah in Cold War Media Memory
Monday 24 February (cancelled)
Speaker: Dr Glyn Davis (University of Edinburgh)
Fragments of a Film: Sunil Gupta's London Gay Switchboard
Monday 16 March (cancelled)
Speaker: Dr Elena Gorfinkel (King's College)
Restless Nocturne: Cinemas on Insomnia
Monday 23 March (cancelled)
Speaker: Professor Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway)
A Star is Born - Again
2018 - 2019
Monday 26 November 2018
Speaker: Professor Chris Berry (King's College London)
China's Rambo? Wolf Warrior 2 and Chinese Masculinity
Monday 10 December 2018
Speaker: Professor Karen Boyle (Strathclyde University)
Weinstein and the (cultural) value of abuse
Monday 28 January 2019
Speaker: Professor Birgit Beumers (Aberystwyth University)
Integration or Isolation: Russia’s film industry in the European context
Monday 11 February 2019
Speaker: Professor Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London)
Greta Gerwig's Gestures: approaching Agamben's work on cinema
Monday 4 March 2019
Speaker: Professor Simeon Yates (University of Liverpool)
Modelling socio-cultural factors in film genre preferences: Empirically comparing Bourdieu, Bauman and Goldthorpe
Monday 25 March 2019
Speaker: Professor Jackie Stacey (University of Manchester)
A Paler Shade of White: Tilda Swinton, David Bowie and the Legibility of Whiteness
Monday 1 April 2019
Speaker: Professor Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong)
Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism and World Cinema
Monday 29 April 2019
Speaker: Professor Peter Stanfield (University of Kent)
Folk Devils in Wardour Street: British Film, Music and Youth Cultures in Early Sixties Soho
2017 - 2018
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Speaker: Professor Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
The Trouble with Female Trouble
Monday 23 October 2017
Speaker: Professor Catherine Driscoll (University of Sydney)
The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero
Monday 27 November 2017
Speaker: Professor Dana Heller (Old Dominion University, Virginia)
Ordinary Zombies: A Requiem for George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Speaker: Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London)
How to Qualify as British: UK Film Policy and the Definition of 'Nationality'
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Speaker: Professor Rosalind Galt (King's College, London)
Pontianak trouble: gender and geopolitics in the Malay vampire film
Monday 26 February 2018
Speaker: Professor James Donald (University of New South Wales)
Native Land: Documentary, Modernism, Populism
Monday 9 April 2018
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)
Horrible images: ethics, affect and the viewer
Monday 16 April 2018
Speaker: Professor Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island)
Sofia Coppola's Commercial Aesthetic: Understanding the Role of Advertising in The Virgin Suicides
2016 - 2017
Monday 24 October 2016
Speaker: Professor Rob Stone (University of Birmingham)
Winging It: Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2015)
Monday 21 November 2016
Speaker: Professor Kriss Ravetto (University of California, Davis)
In Balkan: Mythopoetic cinema and the poetics of the body
Monday 5 December 2016
Speaker: Professor Paul Grainge (University of Nottingham)
Paratexts and the promotional imagination of on-demand viewing
Monday 30 January 2017
Speaker: Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent)
Cinema and the machinic: the history of a failure?
Monday 6 March 2017
Speaker: Professor Nuria Triana-Toribio (University of Kent)
Guilt, belatedly. Almodóvar in the 80s and the 80s in Almodóvar
Monday 8 May 2017
Speaker: Professor Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp)
What’s new about ‘new cinema history’? Historical cinema cultures, exhibition and audiences in comparative perspective
2015 - 2016
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Monday 5 October 2015
Speaker: Professor Daniela Berghahn (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Seeing Themselves Through Western Eyes? Diasporic Filmmakers as Purveyors of the Exotic
Monday 16 November 2015
Speaker: Professor Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, Columbia University)
Double Occupancy and Self-Exoticism: Space-Time Warps of Transnational Cinema
Monday 14 December 2016
Speaker: Professor Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire)
Creating the Canon of Polish Cinema
Monday 22 February 2016
Speaker: Dr Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham)
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: Acting Sexy in Hong Kong and China
Monday 14 March 2016
Speaker: Professor Philip Drake (Edge Hill University)
Independent film, critical media industry studies, and video-on-demand
Monday 11 April 2016
Speaker: Gary Needham (Nottingham Trent University)
Hustling Minimalism: Screen Performance in the Films Andy Warho
Monday 25 April 2016
Speaker: Dr Ian Scott (University of Manchester)
Propaganda Wars, Projections of America and the Dismantling of the Office of War Information at the close of World War II
Monday 16 May 2016
Speaker: Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Co-Production and Conflict: Locating the Transnational in Television
2014 - 2015
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Monday 27 October 2014
Speaker: Professor Richard Dyer (King's College)
The Shadow of M: Serial Killing and Nazism in Film
Monday 24 November 2014
Speaker: Professor Sarah Street (University of Bristol)
Synthetic Dreams: Colour-Film-Music in the 1920s
Monday 1 December 2014
Speaker: Professor Phil Powrie (University of Surrey)
Soundscapes of Loss: Songs in Contemporary French Cinema
Monday 19 January 2015
Speaker: Professor James Donald (University of New South Wales)
Return of the Living Dead: Modernity, Monsters, and Technology
Monday 9 February 2015
Speaker: Professor Will Brooker (Kingston University)
Batman: 75 Years as a Transmedia Text
Monday 23 February 2015
Speaker: Professor Lucia Nagib (University of Reading)
The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity
2013 - 2014
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Monday 4 November 2013
Speaker: Dr Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth)
The relationship between European funding bodies and Latin American filmmakers: new forms of dependence or new partnerships?
Monday 9 December 2013
Speaker: Professor Frederick Wasser (City University of New York, Brooklyn College and Fullbright Bicentennial Scholar in American Studies, University of Helsinki)
Film History, Spielberg and Lincoln
Monday 27 January 2014
Speaker: Professor Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton)
French Cinema in Britain: Sex, Art and Cinephilia
Monday 10 March 2014
Speaker: Professor Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews)
Ephemeral Abundance: Film Culture between the Cyberlocker and the Festival
Monday 28 April 2014
Speaker: Professor Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Hitchcock’s Blondes and Feminist Film Theory: a Cinema of Voyeurism or a Cinema of Self-reflexivity?
Thursday 22 May 2014
Speaker: Professor Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Theatricality and Quality Drama: a Neglected Connection
2012 - 2013
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Monday 8 October 2012
Speaker: Professor Stella Bruzzi (University of Warwick)
Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality
Monday 3 December 2012
Speaker: Professor Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton)
Whatever Happened to Popular European Cinema?
Monday 28 January 2013
Film screening
Screening of Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)
Monday 4 Feburary 2013
Speaker: Professor Carol Mavor (University of Manchester)
A Grimm Fairy Tale: Feeling into Jean-Pierre Gorin's Poto and Cabengo (1980)
Monday 18 Feburary 2013
Speaker: Professor Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)
Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies
Monday 15 April 2013
Speaker: Professor Karen Lury (University of Glasgow)
Micro-history and the amateur film: From artefact to anecdote
2011 - 2012
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Monday 24 October 2011
Speaker: Professor Robert Burgoyne (University of St Andrews)
Ethics and Politics of the Body in The Hurt Locker and Paradise Now
Monday 7 November 2011
Speaker: Professor Hilary Radner (University of Otago)
Neo-Feminism and the Girly Film: Gender and Genre in Conglomerate Hollywood
Monday 12 December 2011
Speaker:Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia)
The Politics of Independence: Jane Fonda, The China Syndrome and Anti-nuclear Campaigning
Monday 23 January 2012
Speaker: Professor Ginette Vincendeau (King's College, London)
Gamine, sex bomb, dumb blonde: Brigitte Bardot as comic star
Monday 13 February 2012
Speaker: Professor Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University)
Your Town Could Be Their Killing Ground ...": Exploitation, “Otherness” and Transgression in the 1960s Biker Movie
Monday 19 March 2012
Speaker: Dr Frank Krutnik (University of Sussex)
Killers on the Kilocycles: Radio Noir and the Movie Adaptation Series
Monday 30 April 2012
Speaker: Pamela Church-Gibson (London College of Fashion)
Cinema in Peril: Stardom, Celebrity Culture and Luxury Brands
2010 - 2011
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Monday 15 November 2010
Speaker: Dr Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University)
Understanding David Lynch’s Inland Empire
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Speaker: Professor Robert C. Allen (University of North Carolina)
Cinema Archaeology: Excavating Spaces, Reclaiming Experience
Monday 31 January 2011
Speaker: Professor Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth)
Hollywood, Post-studio Stardom, and ”The Will Smith Business
Monday 11 April 2011
Speaker: Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art)
Order, coherence, codecs and vectors: Time in the moving image
Monday 9 May 2011
Speaker: Professor Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia)
A Provocative Presence: Military women in film and visual culture