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Academy Award for King's Professor

31 Oct 2002, PR 48/02

Professor David Rodowick of King's College London has been selected as one of two 2002 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.



David Rodowick, Professor and Chair in Film Studies at King's College, and Dana Polan, Professor at the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, are the third pair of film scholars to be selected by the Grants Committee of the Academy Foundation for the honour. Each will receive 5,000 from the Academy.

The two new Academy Film Scholars were selected on the basis of their proposals for new scholarly works presented to the committee. Prof Rodowick will undertake a review of the replacement by digital technologies of almost every aspect of filmmaking and filmviewing over the past two decades, and the expected disappearance of celluloid film stock over the next decade, to be entitled "The Virtual Life of Film."

The first half of each 5,000 grant will be presented at a luncheon on 16 December at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The two Academy Film Scholars will present their projects in lecture form at a public Academy event following the completion of their work.

The Academy Film Scholars program was created in 1999 to "stimulate and support the creation of new, innovative and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures."



Notes to editors

King's College London

King's College London is one of the oldest and largest colleges of the University of London with some 12,400 undergraduate students and over 4,700 postgraduates in ten schools of study. The College had 24 of its subject-areas awarded the highest rating of 5* and 5 for research quality, demonstrating excellence at an international level. It is in the top group of five universities for research earnings and has an annual turnover of over £300 million and research income from grants and contracts in excess of £90 million (2001-2002).



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