Graduate Seminars

Screen Media Research

PROF W D TROTTER and PROF E WILSON, Screen Media Research Seminar (4S, 1½ hours, odd weeks) M. 5.15, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane
This term's topic is literature and cinema, understood comparatively, and in relation to the evolving media 'ecology' of which each has long since formed a part.

10 Oct       Professor David Trotter (Cambridge): Literature and Film in the First Media Age, 1918-1939
24 Oct      Professor Emma Wilson (Cambridge): ideas of indexicality, sensuousness and intimacy (reading-group discussion)
7 Nov       Dr Emily Caston (University of the Arts): Distraction and Remediation in British Transmedia Campaigns of the Nineties and Noughties
21 Nov     Dr Libby Saxton (Queen Mary): Godard, Gesture and the Sacred