Today is our last research seminar of Spring Term, 'Book Night'- short presentations on forthcoming or recent publications by Ginette Vincendeau, Nick Helm-Grovas, Rosalind Galt, and Tom Brown. Chaired by Lawrence Napper.
Lawrence Napper 🕷
S-1.04, 5 p.m. - 6.30 p.m!

Barely time to breathe rn, but logging on to share immense pride in my Film Festivals & Film Fest Studies 3rd years at King's Film Studies, whose film fest opens tonight!

Attendance largely limited to KCL staff/students, but there ARE a handful of non-KCL tix available for each session.

King's Film Studies Un.censor.ing and CIFA present Wang Tuo’s The Second Interrogation (2022, 60 min) on cultural censorship in China's art world, plus Q&A, 7pm, 27 March, Lecture Theatre 2, Bush House BH(S)4.04, KCL, WC2B 4PA. Get your free ticket: tickettailor.com/events/kingsar…

We are advertising opening of TWO Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in Film Studies in specialism in one or more of following areas
-Cinemas of the Global South
-New Media, Television
-Filmmaking (Practice as Research)
Please circulate!

H'wood Film Style & Prod Code, In Media Res week convened by KCL’s Tom Brown closes w an experiment in videographic criticism conducted by Alison Peirse-- her contribution Ways of Doing, examines Sorry Wrong Number, a horror film (of a kind) from 1948👉 mediacommons.org/imr/

Check out the open access PDF of the volume Accidental Archivism including contributions by KCL's Erica Carter and Erika Balsom 👇📖👀

KCL’s Tom Brown has convened a theme week for In Media Res, on 'Hollywood Film Style+the Production Code'! The week includes new videographic work & acts as a sneak preview for a forthcoming special journal issue on style & the Code. mediacommons.org/imr/content/ho…

An exciting 2 part Med Hondo Study Day will take place on January 20th: free afternoon talks & conversations with archivists, filmmakers, and scholars at KCL, some who have worked with Hondo, & screening of WEST INDIES at the BFI, booking/info here: ⬇️ tickettailor.com/events/globalc…

Coming up in February! Global Circulations of Film Theory: Decolonising Film Theory Through Asian Cinema is part of an AHRC project headed by Prof. Sarah Cooper, a 3 session course at BFI incl. colleagues Victor Fan and Chris Berry--sign up here! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…

if you're in Frankfurt today, you can see KCL Film Studies own Professor Rosalind Galt giving a talk on 'Third Cinema's Ghosts: Animist Aesthetics and World Cinema' in the 20th season of the eminent Kracauer Lectures at Goethe Univ.

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📷 ‘Global Circulations of Film Theory’ will be taking place 30-31st August 2024. Deadline for submitting proposals: 29 January 2024
More info: globalfilmtheory.net/news/general-n…

Join King’s College London (King's Film Studies) and BFI Southbank for a Study Day exploring the work of Mauritanian-born filmmaker Med Hondo. tickettailor.com/events/globalc…

Less than a month left to Barbican Centre's preview of ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY in partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions. The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Paul B. Preciado, hosted by Erika Balsom. barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/…

Coming soon to Conway Hall, an exclusive screening of Filipa César’s award-winning documentary SPELL REEL. Organiser and former KCL student Glenys Adelusi first encountered the film on a final year module led by Prof. Erica Carter. Tickets: tinyurl.com/rfwwyu5r

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. One of the presenters will be KCL Film Studies’ own elena gorfinkel. More info: film-studies-research.er.kcl.ac.uk/2023/10/porn-s…

Missed elena gorfinkel's talk on Sleeping in the Movie Theatre on Tuesday? Try putting on WANDA Criterion Collection and reimagine it...
uwm.edu/c21/event/gorf…

On Nov 15th, Dr. Luis Freijo will be giving a a guest lecture at Goethe-Universität as part of the Cornelia-Goethe-Centrum annual lecture series:
cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/veranstaltunge…

🚨 You can now find the full schedule for our Film Studies Department research seminars in semester one here: film-studies-research.er.kcl.ac.uk/2023/10/resear…