Film Studies Research Seminars 2024-25
Wednesdays, 5-7pm, Bush House SE 2.10 (unless otherwise indicated) Semester 1 16 October 2024 Victoria Pistivsek (King’s College London): “Politics, Power,…
Elena Gorfinkel’s keynote lecture “Barbara Loden, Unforgotten: Archival Reckonings and Feminist Constellations”at SSAAANZ Conference 2024
Elena Gorfinkel gave a keynote lecture “Barbara Loden, Unforgotten: Archival Reckonings and Feminist Constellations” in “Seen/Unseen: Screens and Screen Studies…
Erika Balsom curated film programme “One Way or Another” for Experimenta 2024
Erika Balsom co-curated a programme with Shai Heredia for Experimenta India in Bangalore—One Way or Another that brings together works…
Jinhee Choi, Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood
Jinhee Choi, Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). Forever Girls explores girlhood manifest in contemporary…
Jinhee Choi’s book talk in BFI Southbank: Forever Girls
Author of Forever Girls, Dr Jinhee Choi discussed her new book Forever Gils and explored how girlhood manifests in South…
Chris Berry’s talks “The Therapeutic Benefits of Technofragility in the Anthropocene Era, or, Why Am I Fascinated by Dead and Dying Public Screens?”
Chris Berry delivered talks “The Therapeutic Benefits of Technofragility in the Anthropocene Era, or, Why Am I Fascinated by Dead…
Chris Berry, “Reconsolidation of Party-State Hegemony in a Market Economy”
Chris Berry, “Cinema: Reconsolidation of Party-State Hegemony in a Market Economy”. In China under Xi Jinping, eds. Hanna Kupś, Maciej Szatkowski,…
Chris Berry, “Taiwanese-language Cinema as Cold War Industry and Culture : Compliance Without Commitment”
Chris Berry, “Taiwanese-language Cinema as Cold War Industry and Culture : Compliance Without Commitment”. In Remapping the Cold War in Asian…
Chris Berry et al. (eds.), Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered
Chris Berry, Wafa Ghermani, Corrado Neri, and Ming-yeh Rawnsley (eds.), Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Chris Berry’s keynote lecture “Two Waves of Women’s Cinema (Nűxing Dianying) in the PRC: Looking Backwards to Look Forward”
“Two Waves of Women’s Cinema (Nűxing Dianying) in the PRC: Looking Backwards to Look Forward” In Sinophone Women’s Cinema and…
Chris Berry’s keynote lecture “Taiwanese-Language Cinema as a Cold War Industry and Culture: Compliance without Commitment”
“Taiwanese-Language Cinema as a Cold War Industry and Culture: Compliance without Commitment” In The 5th International Conference on the Film…
KCL Films for Ukraine 2023
Film Studies’s Professor Chris Berry along with colleagues in Digital Humanities created a programme of film screenings and events to…
Belen Vidal’s talk at Academia Film Olomouc, the 59th Festival of Science Documentary Films
Belén Vidal was a guest speaker at AFO – Academia Film Olomouc, the 59th Festival of Science Documentary Films. AFO…
The Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference (30-31 Aug 2024)
The Global Circulations of Film Theory Conference took place 30-31 August 2024 at King’s College London. The two days of…
Book launch + screening: Ulrike Ottinger – Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination (June 4, 5, 7)
Book Launch Tue, 04.06.2024, 6:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London An evening of short talks and longer conversations over a glass of…
LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA: BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Please join us in June and July at BFI Southbank for our third series of workshops devoted to re-envisioning film…
AI ‘Remakes’ of La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
23 May 2024 15:00 to 17:00 Strand Campus, London Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a celebrated short film about a post-nuclear…
‘Thinking Cinema, Otherwise’ with Earl Jackson
Professor Earl Jackson will discuss Japanese film theories and beyond in three events at King’s College London and Garden Cinema on 6,…
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2024
This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers…
“Grandma’s Grammar” Screenings curated by Elena Gorfinkel
Elena Gorfinkel has curated a five screening programme “Grandma’s Grammar” at the Open City Documentary Film Festival London, 24-30 April…
Prof. Yizhou Tian presented at the 3rd Global Circulations of Film Theory Symposium
Visiting Scholar Professor Yizhou Tian from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) joins us for a year with support from the China…
Victor Fan’s essay received Outstanding Paper Award from the Academy of Hong Kong Studies
Victor Fan’s recent essay “Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinemas” has just received the Outstanding Paper Award from…
Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, “Representations of Christianity in Chinese Independent Cinema: Gan Xiao’er’s Postsocialist Religious Critique,” Religions 15, no. 4 (2024): 443.
Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, “Representations of Christianity in Chinese Independent Cinema: Gan Xiao’er’s Postsocialist Religious Critique,” Religions 15, no. 4 (2024):…
Mia Parnall, “Intimate Alienations: The Octopus Body as Cinematic Écriture,” The Neutral, no. 3 (2024): The Unhuman.
Mia Parnall, “Intimate Alienations: The Octopus Body as Cinematic Écriture,” The Neutral, no. 3 (2024): The Unhuman. AbstractFor theorists from…
Sarah Cooper ‘Vegetal Life, Plant Soul: Early British Film Flowers,’ in Mark Cauchi, ed., Cinema and Secularism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2023),
Sarah Cooper ‘Vegetal Life, Plant Soul: Early British Film Flowers,’ in Mark Cauchi, ed., Cinema and Secularism (New York: Bloomsbury,…
Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon, “A Timely Education. Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)” in Angela McRobbie ed, Ulrike Ottinger. Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination. Intellect, 2024.
Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon, “A Timely Education. Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)” in Angela McRobbie ed, Ulrike Ottinger: Film,…
Chris Berry, “Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute,” Film Quarterly, Spring 2024, Volume 77, Number 3.
Chris Berry, “Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute,” Film Quarterly, Spring 2024, Volume 77, Number 3. In 2023, China’s first Tibetan…
Victor Fan, “Toward a Cinematic Transtopia,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 17, no. 1 (2023): 81–94.
Fan, Victor. “Toward a Cinematic Transtopia.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 17, no. 1 (2023): 81–94. doi:10.1080/17508061.2024.2312727. AbstractHas Chinese independent cinema begun to…