Exhibition: Edvard Munch: The modern eye, Tate Modern, London (28 June 2012-14 October 2012) Catalogue: Edvard Munch: The modern eye, edited by Angela Lampe and Clément Chéroux (London: Tate, 2012) What makes this picture successful everywhere whether it is a canvas or a print? – Edvard Munch, 1933 Apparently, in the work of the Norwegian […]
In struggles for political and cultural recognition many Indigenous groups employ visual media to make their concerns heard. Amongst these various channels for media activism are Indigenous film festivals which, in the words of festival coordinator Amalia Cόrdova, work to convey ‘a sense of solidarity with Indigenous struggles’.[1] Cόrdova’s essay on Indigenous film festivals appears […]
The Uranium Film Festival (UFF), the world’s only film festival focused on ‘the whole nuclear fuel chain’, is entering its third year in Rio de Janeiro. The organisers Marcia Gomes de Oliveira (Executive Director) and Norbert G. Suchanek (General Director) of the arts and education non-profit Yellow Archives began the festival with the mission of […]
The Festival of Central and Eastern European Film Wiesbaden,[1] also known as ‘goEast’, is a key event on the German film festival calendar. This is perhaps in no small part due to the fact that the festival is organised by the Deutsches Filminstitut, also because it enjoys a dedicated following among enthusiasts of the larger, […]
Amsterdam University Press recently launched a book series titled The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies. Directed by Ian Christie, Dominique Chateau, and Annie van den Oever, the series aims at focusing on the central issues animating the current theoretical debate within film studies (but with a special emphasis on its relation […]
by Barbara Creed There must be times when she can no longer stand this state, her condition. It’s the realm of ‘doing nothing’. She spends her life doing nothing. Nicholas Philibert’s documentary Nenette (2010) sets out to problematise the human/animal boundary and as such it poses several important questions for contemporary film theory. In particular […]
‘Lively, radiant, lush…’ This is how colour authority Pantone Inc. describes emerald green (Pantone code 17-5641), the colour of the year for 2013. Welcome to NECSUS #3_Spring 2013 with a special section on ‘Green’. While springtime is normally an ideal season to evoke the greening of nature, our aim in this special section is to […]
The 13th European Cinema Research Forum will be hosted by Film Studies and the Division of European Languages and Cultures at The University of Edinburgh from 1-2 July 2013. The conference will include a screening of the film Ghosted by Monika Treut which will be followed by a discussion session between the director and Dr […]
The 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013) will take place from 27-29 June 2013 at the Institute of African Studies-University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. In addition to the thematic panels and keynote speeches the conference will host a documentary film festival. The films submitted to the event must portray issues […]
The 6th NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Graduate Workshop will be organized from 28 February-1 March 2013 under the theme ‘Moving Images – Imagined Movements: Mobility in/of Film’. The workshop is organized by the NECS graduate committee, represented by Miriam De Rosa and Alena Strohmaier, and hosted by the Department of Theater, […]
The postgraduate Study Day is a yearly conference at the University of St. Andrews, organised by the postgraduate students in Film Studies, which aims to explore aspects in the field of film studies that are not covered by our research projects. The topic of this year’s event, which will be held on 3 April 2013, […]
The provisional programme for the Centre for Film Studies symposium ‘Texture in Film’, 9 March 2013, University of St Andrews, has been announced. Registration is currently open for the event here. This symposium will seek to explore ways in which thinking about texture can reinvigorate discussion of film form across a variety of cinematic contexts, […]
Some 70 proposals for papers from over 20 countries have been accepted for FILM AND MEDIA 2013: The Third Annual London Film and Media Conference, which will be held at the University of London Institute of Education on 27-29 June 2013. The conference theme is ‘The Pleasures of the Spectacle’. Keynote Speakers include NECSUS advisory […]
BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) is hosting its 1st Annual Conference from 19-21 April 2013 at University of Lincoln. The conference theme is “Critics & Criticism: Writing on Audiovisual Media” and the call for papers is currently open until 17 December 2012. A Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to NECSUS […]
6th NECS Graduate Workshop Moving Images – Imagined Movements: Mobility in/of Film Vienna, 28 February-01 March 2013 Hosted by the Department of Theatre-, Film- and Media Studies/University of Vienna Organized by the NECS Graduate Workshop Committee Call for Papers Travel as a motif in film or hypermobility through cyberspace, displayed mobility or migration in movies […]
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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