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Upcoming Event: Bill Douglas Museum 20th Anniversary Lecture

From the museum curator, Phil Wickham:

“Our next event for our 20th anniversary is a public lecture here at 6.15 on Tuesday 28 March featuring Dr Lisa Stead from the University of East Anglia talking about women and cinemagoing between the wars, supported by Exeter doctoral student Chris Grosvenor discussing his research on miltary film audiences in Word War One. Lisa and Chris has both extensively used our collections for their research and Lisa has recently published her book ‘Off to the Pictures: Cinema-Going, Women’s Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain’ through Edinburgh University Press. It should be a fascinating night and is open to all – free admission but you can book a place through bdc@exeter.ac.uk”

Upcoming Event: BFI Black Star Double Bill – Introduced by Tom Fallows

after-dark-double-bill

As part of the BFI Black Star season, on Saturday December 3rd Exeter Phoenix presents two classic horror films starring celebrated actor Duane Jones. The double bill begins at 9:30pm with Ganja & Hess (1973), a highly stylised and utterly original treatise on sex, religion and African American identity. This is followed at 11.15pm by George A. Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead (1968), an American genre masterpiece and the original template for the zombie film.

The event will be introduced by the University of Exeter’s Tom Fallows, PhD researcher and co-author of the George A. Romero Pocket Essential Guide.

http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/after-dark-double-bill/

Upcoming Event: Visiting PhD Student Joint Seminar, 30th November

On Wednesday 30th November visiting PhD researchers Asier Gil Vazquez and Antonio Terrón Barroso will be giving a joint seminar on their individual research projects. Asier will be discussing his research on ageing femininities in Spanish film under Franco (1951-1962) and Antonio will be talking about his research on the representation and reception of Spanishness through transnational cinema  (2005-2015).

All welcome.

Wednesday 30th November, Queen’s LT6, 14.30.