Dear IAMHIST members,
Here is an announcement about a new M.A. programme starting in 2014-15 at Birkbeck, London:
A first of its kind, this new M.A. in Film Curating, directed by Professor Laura Mulvey, explores the rapidly changing ways in which films are programmed by curators and consumed by spectators. Today audiences still watch films in cinemas, but digital technology and the internet have multiplied the platforms for consuming moving images. At the same time, galleries and museums now routinely exhibit film in shows and installations, while film festivals are flourishing in new formats and locations as never before. This intensive (one year, full time) M.A. programme combines academic study of the history of moving image exhibition with practical work including interaction with film curators and practitioners. Now, for the first time in the history of film studies, the role of programmers and curators as the creative mediators between films and their audiences have become a significant issue for academic and critical inquiry and research.
Features:
• The award-winning Birkbeck Cinema is equipped with 35mm and state-of-the-art DVD projection, offering students the opportunity to experiment with programming and curating.
• The Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image: the programme includes conferences, screenings and film related events of all kinds throughout the academic year.
• Birkbeck will host the first Essay Film Festival early in 2015, with opportunities for student involvement with its organization.
• Located in central London, in the heart of historic Bloomsbury, Birkbeck is within easy reach of cinemas and galleries, as well as facilities such as the British Film Institute, the British Library etc.
For more information about the M.A. Film Curating at Birkbeck: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2014/postgraduate/programmes/TMAFCURA_C/
Thanks for your attention, Michael Temple
Category: Archived articles
Provisional programme : Childhood & The Media, XXVth IAMHIST CONFERENCE, CHILDHOOD AND THE MEDIA, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (UK), 17-20 JULY 2013
Please find here the provisional program of the 25th IAMHIST Conference – CHILDHOOD AND THE MEDIA, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (UK), 17-20 JULY 2013
IAMHIST Provisional Conference Programme
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NEW BOOK: SILENCING CINEMA: FILM CENSORSHIP AROUND THE WORLD
‘SILENCING CINEMA: FILM CENSORSHIP AROUND THE WORLD’ brings together the key issues and authors to examine instances of film censorship. Including essays by some of today’s leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia/Soviet Union, India, China, and Nigeria, among others.
The contributors explore such innovative themes and topics as film censorship and authorship, genre, language, religion, audiences, political economy, international policy, and colonialism. This exciting collection is thoroughly unique in its broad geographical scope and its comprehensive look at film censorship.
SILENCING CINEMA, edited by Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel, is now available in paperback and in hardcover.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Silencing Cinema: An Introduction; D. Biltereyst & R. Vande Winkel
PART I: CENSORSHIP, REGULATION, AND HEGEMONY
All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States; L. Wittern-Keller
American Morality Is Not to Be Trifled With : Content Regulation in Hollywood after 1968; J. Lewis
When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years of Film Censorship in Canada; P. Véronneau
Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, and Ideology in Mexican Film Censorship; F. M. Peredo-Castro
PART II: CONTROL, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE
Film Censorship in Germany: Continuity and Changes through Five Political Systems; M. Loiperdinger
Seeing Red: Political Control of Cinema in the Soviet Union; R. Taylor
Prohibition, Politics, and Nation Building: A History of Film Censorship in China; Z. Xiao
Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema; D. K. Mutlu
PART III: COLONIALISM, LEGACY, AND POLICIES
The Censor and the State in Great Britain; J. Petley
British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941; D. Newman
‘We do not certify backwards’: Film Censorship in Post-Colonial India; N. Bose
Irish Film Censorship: Refusing the Fractured Family of Foreign Films; K. Rockett
PART IV: CENSORSHIP MULTIPLICITY, MORAL REGULATION, AND EXPERIENCES
Nollywood, Kannywood, and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria; C. McCain
The Legion of Decency and the Movies; G. D. Black
Blessed Cinema: State and Catholic Censorship in Post-war Italy; D. Treveri-Gennari
Film Censorship in a Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies of Film Control and Audience’s Experiences of Censorship in Belgium; D. Biltereyst
Publisher’s website: http://www.palgrave.com/
