Please join us online next Tuesday, 23rd April @ 4pm for our next Film research seminar! Professor Niamh Thornton (University of Liverpool) will be giving a talk titled 'Stardom, Collection, Acquisition, and Taste: María Félix, Cartier, and Christies.' More info: tinyurl.com/5h6mja4p

Our expert Dr Malcolm Cook Film at Southampton gives his thoughts to Eric Brooks SFGATE about a single 1980s animated image of coastline near San Francisco which eventually led to Toy Story and the success of the now famous studio, Pixar. 🎞️ 🎬 Read more 👇 brnw.ch/21wILiG

A brilliant paper from Michael Williams this afternoon at BAFTSS on ‘‘The Finest Epigrammist of the Present Day’: Fan Magazines and the Queer Craft of Herbert Howe’.
#BAFTSS24 #BAFTSS2024 Film at Southampton

Our very own Prof Shelley Cobb delivered a fantastic opening keynote for this year's #BAFTSS2024 , drawing on work undertaken for her AHRC funded research 'Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK.' For more info, check out womencallingtheshots.com!

Job alert--we are hiring! The Film Department at the University of Southampton seeks to appoint two Lecturers in Digital Media (with research interests in Artificial Intelligence). More details and link to application portal: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Huge congratulations to our very own Dr Ruby Cheung, whose recent monograph “Hong King’s New Indie Cinema” has been shortlisted for the BAFTSS best monograph award 💫!

Happening this afternoon--4pm in Lecture Theatre B!

Please join us next Tuesday, 27th February, for our second Film research seminar of the semester! Our very own Dr. Canan Balan will be giving a talk titled 'From Segregation to Desegregation: Women and Early Film Culture in Istanbul' (4pm in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus).

Congratulations, Dr Viney Burgess!

Tomorrow! Do join us in Lecture Theatre B at 4pm for Jeff Scheible's talk on 'Ping Pong and the Moving Image.'

Please join us next Tuesday (20th February) for our first research seminar of the semester! We are very excited to be joined by Jeff Scheible (@kingsfilm), who will give a talk titled 'Following the Ball: Ping Pong and the Moving Image' (Avenue Campus, LTB, 4pm).

Last week, we were thrilled to be joined by colleagues from Dongguk University in South Korea--one of the many places our students can spend a semester or summer studying abroad. It was wonderful to introduce our students and discuss future collaborations!

Check out this radio interview with Southampton's Louis Bayman following the recent publication of 'Folk Horror on Film' (co-edited with Prof. Kevin Donnelly):

Tonight on WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org New York radio (9pm ET / 2am GMT) I interview Louis Bayman from University of Southampton about the brilliant new book 'Folk Horror on Film' published by Manchester University Press Dr Diane A. Rodgers Derek Johnston Dawn Keetley Folk Horror Revival ⨘ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Folk Horror Magpie 🌷 Catherine Spooner Ian Barton

Malcolm Cook will be sharing some exciting new research on useful animation, petroleum & the environment FilmScreenCam this Thursday! Details below:

Exciting research seminar by our own Zoë Burgess (Zoë Viney Burgess) taking place Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities next month! Registration link below:

Coming soon! 'Transnational European Cinema: Representation, Audiences, Identity,' written by our very own Dr Huw Jones, is out in one month's time:

Congratulations to our PhD researcher Mike Barnard, who won the prize for the best Arts, Humanities, and Social Science poster at yesterday's Research Showcase! Mike's research explores ways of measuring the audience for Disney films in the age of streaming--brilliant stuff!