Research Seminars (Sem 2) 2023-24
The Department is a leading centre for research on all aspects of cinema, from its earliest days to the present, and…
Global Circulations of Film Theory Course: Decolonising Film Theory Through Asian Cinema
Events at BFI Southbank for a series of workshops that will explore questions of decolonising film theory through Asian cinema:…
Belén Vidal (2023) The Barbara hypothesis: performance and spectatorship in the musical biopic
Belén Vidal has published a new article on the film Barbara for French Screen Studies: ACCESS THE ARTICLE HERE Belén Vidal (2023) The Barbara hypothesis: performance and spectatorship…
Cinepoetics Lectures: Elena Gorfinkel
Elena Gorfinkel delivers the 21st Cinepoetics Lecture in Berlin.
A Med Hondo Study Day
On January 20th, KCL and BFI host a Med Hondo Study Day.
Chris Berry’s conversation with Umar Isa Dandago and Abdallah Uba Adamu from Northern Nigeria
EPISODE ONE: PROF ABDALLAH UBA ADAMU AND PROF CHRIS BERRY ON CHINESE FILMS In this Intercontinental Panel Interview, I speak…
Chris Berry on Farewell My Concubine
From Hong Kong on Screen podcast Ep.43: Continuing our 4-part series on the seminal film Farewell My Concubine, Prof. Chris…
Tabula Rasa: the Western under Erasure in The Rider and Jauja
Luis Freijo, “Tabula rasa: the Western under erasure in The Rider and Jauja,” Transnational Screens 14, no.1, (2023): 64-80, DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2023.2185381.
Preview: Orlando, My Political Biography + Conversation with Paul B. Preciado and Erika Balsom
The Barbican presents a preview of the highly anticipated film by writer Paul B. Preciado based on the novel Orlando, with a discussion hosted by Erika Balsom.
Screening + Panel: Archiving By Other Means
A screening of Filipa César’s award-winning documentary Spell Reel, organised by Glenys Adelusi, former KCL student.
Lecture: Man In Search for Meaning
Dr. Luis Freijo presents a guest lecture at the Cornelia-Goethe-Centrum, part of the Goethe University of Frankfurt on Nov 15th.
Lecture: Sleeping in the Movie Theater
UW-Milwaukee welcomes KCL’s Elena Gorfinkel on Nov 14th to speak about Sleeping in the Theatre and Barbara Loden’s Wanda.
Porn Studies: Symposium Honouring the Work of Linda Williams
The UC-Berkeley Department of Film and Media and Department of Rhetoric would like to invite you to a Symposium on Porn Studies, honouring the work of Linda Williams.
Talk: Not Only: Barbara Loden’s Poetics of Fatigue
Dr Elena Gorfinkel will be giving a lecture and facilitating a workshop on Barbara Loden in Madison, Wisconsin in November 2023.
The Machine that Kills Bad People: Ode to Mount Hayachine + Un vent léger dans le feuillage
This upcoming event programmed by The Machine that Kills Bad People will feature two original 16mm prints in partnership with the Japan Foundation.
Research Seminars (SEM 1) 2023-24
The Department of Film Studies runs a highly-regarded series of research seminars every year. The Department is a leading centre…
Buddhism and Film Theory: Beyond a Legacy
Victor Fan, “Buddhism and Film Theory: Beyond a Legacy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, ed. Kyle Stevens (New York: Oxford…
Laborer’s Love: An Anthropotechnogenetic Mediation between Cinematism and Animetism
Victor Fan, “Laborer’s Love: An Anthropotechnogenetic Mediation between Cinematism and Animetism,” Journal of Chinese Film Studies 2, no. 2 (November…
Interbeing
Victor Fan, “Interbeing,” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, 13 March 2023.
Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinema
Victor Fan, “Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinema,” Concentric 49, no. 1 (March 2023): 27–47. Code-switching and -mixing…
The Heart And the Sea: on the Lifeblood and Elemental Folds of Réparer les vivants
Sarah Cooper, “The heart and the sea: on the lifeblood and elemental folds of Réparer les vivants,” French Screen Studies, September 2023, DOI: 10.1080/26438941.2023.2247811. In…
Conjuring the cinematic pissoir
Elena Gorfinkel, “Conjuring the cinematic pissoir,” World Picture 14 “Spell” (Autumn 2023).