We are delighted to confirm attendance of internationally renowned film director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener, Blindness) at the University of Reading. The programme includes an exclusive screening of…Read More >
Film Theatre and Television
INTERMIDIA PROJECT – FINAL CELEBRATION
The final celebration of the AHRC-FAPESP funded IntermIdia Project: https://research.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/ PROGRAMME 11h00-13h00 Cinema Screening of Passages (Lúcia Nagib & Samuel Paiva, 2019), 96 mins 13h00-14h00 Atrium Lunch break featuring an…Read More >
Echoes of Manguebeat: video essay and seminar by Amanda Mansur Nogueira
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 >
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 >
