Film Studies Research

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MPhil/PhD

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Part Time, Full Time

Staff interests associated with the research programme and its research groups

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Period drama and the historical film; film aesthetics and adaptation; contemporary European cinema, especially Spanish; cinephilia, film theory and cultural history; women and film.
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+44 (0)20 7848 2018
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Film and Religion, especially Christianity; Film and Philosophy; Critical theory, especially theories of spectatorship; Animal studies; European cinema

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020 7848 1385
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Chinese and East Asian cinema and screen cultures; Screens and Public Space; Gender, Sexuality and Cinema; Documentary Film; Theorizing Screen Studies; Theories of National and Transnational Cinema

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Film history, European cinema (especially French); film stardom; crime cinema and film noir; women's cinema; feminist film theory.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1038
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East Asian Cinema; the Global Film Industry; Classical and Contemporary Film Theories and Philosophy of Film

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020 7848 1373
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British cinema and popular culture before 1970, silent cinema, film adaptation and cross media connections, musicals, film archiving and representations of the 1914-18 war.
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Post-war European cinema (especially art cinema); Third and World cinemas; nationalism and national cinemas; exploitation cinema; film theory and historiography; the history of film studies; the archive.
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020 7848 1490
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  • history and geography of film and visual culture in the United States
  • cinema and the city (especially Los Angeles)
  • Italian neorealism
  • the road moviecinema and radical politics (especially circa 1968)
  • critical theory
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+44 (0)20 7848 2024
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Avant-garde and experimental film; special effects; aesthetic theory and philosophy; film cultures.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1681
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Entertainment & representation; film music; African-American music; serial killers in film.
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020 7848 1158
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Film theory and philosophy; ethics and film, especially documentary; European cinema (especially French); modern critical theory, especially feminist theory, queer theory, and psychoanalysis.
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+44 (0)20 7848 2441
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The ‘classical’ cinemas of Hollywood and France; The history of film spectacle (especially of the musical); The representation of history on film; The relationship between practices of close interpretative analysis, film history and classic film theory; Performance

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