Film production in Pernambuco, in the Northeastern Region of Brazil, grew out of the effervescent music scene of the 1990s. Pernambucan cinema has appropriated Manguebeat music and film in contemporary…Read More >
Film Theatre and Television
The Politics of Form: Exploring the role different dramaturgies play in determining the political character of a play (Film Theatre and Television Seminar)
Within the context of British theatre, plays are generally considered political if they address current social and political issues within the content of their narrative. Little attention is paid to…Read More >
‘Mother-F*ers of Invention: Women in Geriaction’ – by the University of Tennessee’s Chris Holmlund, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
“Geriaction” originally referred to the question of how to keep elderly, largely female, patients in nursing homes active. In the last decade it has been applied to aging stars in…Read More >
‘I, Sheep’: a woolly perspective on the world
What can we discover from putting a GoPro on a sheep? Teresa Murjas and James Rattee tell us about their unusual animal-led film and poetry project (camera work: Jess the…Read More >
Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures: Hitchcock’s Mountain – technologies of engagement in North by Northwest
The relation between film spectatorship, perceptual and emotional engagement, and special effects is explored in light of a signal achievement from the late 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, specifically the…Read More >
Calling the Shots: Constructing Histories of Contemporary Women Filmmakers in the UK
Film, Theatre and Television Research Seminar series. Dr Shelley Cobb and Prof. Linda Williams Dr. Shelley Cobb is the Principle Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture…Read More >
MACE Film Festival Screenings 2018
Invitation to the MACE Film Festival Festival of Films Produced by MA Creative Enterprise students – Pathway Film For further information contact Professor Lucia Nagib via email; l.nagib@reading.ac.uk or telephone; 0118…Read More >
