Tag: Film research

Tuesday 24 May 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Suzanne Speidel (Film Studies, SHU)

A black-and-white image of people outside of a theatre with a sign saying 'Lux Radio Theatre'

Title: Lux Presents Hollywood – films on the radio during the ‘golden age’ of broadcasting Speaker: Dr Suzanne Speidel (Film Studies, SHU) Dr Suzanne Speidel is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests include adaptation studies and contemporary American television. Her publications include articles and chapters in The Journal of Adaptation on Film and […]

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Tuesday 26 April 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Anja Louis (Languages & Cultures, Sheffield Business School)

A poster of La Suerte Dormida (Ángeles González-Sinde, 2003)

Title: Female lawyers as epithets of powerful career women – From Saénz de Heredia to González Sinde Speaker: Dr Anja Louis (Languages & Cultures, Sheffield Business School) Representations of female lawyers are often seen as personifications of progress and indicative of wider issues of patriarchal crisis. They are also often perceived as epithets of powerful career women and hence their […]

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Dr Esther Johnson’s film ‘Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches’ screening in Switzerland

Banner for 'Alone Together' by Esther Johnson, from the film website

Dr Esther Johnson‘s AHRC-funded project, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches, will screen at Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland later in April. The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect of urbanisation, industrialisation and migration in the British Isles. This two-day symposium offers a forum for […]

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Professor Virginia Heath’s film ‘From Scotland with Love’ to be screened at the Chicago European Union Film Festival

Composite image of From Scotland With Love, directed by Professor Virginia Heath

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]

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Wednesday 17 February 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU) and Debbie Ballin (Film & Media, SHU)

An image of a pair of hands holding a badge that reads: It's our future - kids against pit closures

Title: Echoes of Protest Speakers: Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU) and Debbie Ballin (Film & Media, SHU) Esther Johnson (Reader Media Arts) and Debbie Ballin (Senior Lecturer Film and Media) will present work from their on-going collaborative research project Echoes of Protest. This project aims to understand the role protest can play in the politicisation of children and the long-term […]

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Professor Virginia Heath supporting the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive project

Composite image of From Scotland With Love, directed by Professor Virginia Heath

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]

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Dr Esther Johnson’s film, ‘Alone Together, The Social Life of Benches’ to be shown as part of the Michael Young Centenary Conference

Banner for 'Alone Together' by Esther Johnson, from the film website

Dr Esther Johnson‘s film, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton. Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the emotional and experiential capacity of film is used as an instrument to highlight themes such as […]

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East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue – Dr Chi-Yun Shin (Eds)

Book cover: East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue

Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir’s downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and been excluded from circuits of global-noir traffic, past and present. East Asian Film Noir is the first book to explore […]

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