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POSTGRADUATE
POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES
8th British Silent
Cinema Festival
7-10
April 2005
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
The AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies in association with
British Silent Cinema Festival organised by Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
and the British Film Institute
Unique opportunity for research students to benefit from exclusive seminars
with leading European film scholars. Among the confirmed guest contributors to this second year of special Sacile-style
seminars for students will be:
Martin Loiperdinger (Trier University), editor of the journal KINTOP
and leading German early film historian The bursaries will cover accommodation and subsistence costs for the four days
of the festival. Bursary holders will be expected to complete a writing assignment
based on their experience at the festival, for presentation at next year's event.
Applications are invited from UK-based postgraduate students working in this
field, giving details of current enrolment in a higher education institution,
an academic CV and a brief statement of reasons for wishing to apply for a bursary.
The application should include an indication of approval from the applicant's
supervisor. If funds permit, MA students specialising in early British cinema
and intending PhD students may be considered. Application details: Applications to and further details from:
Ann Jones to arrive no later than 21 March 2005 Further information about the 7th British Silent Cinema Festival is available
from:
Laraine Porter
A special programme of seminars and meetings with festival visitors will take
place throughout the festival, also open to accredited students who are not
bursary holders. This will offer a unique opportunity to engage with new research
methods and themes, and with a range of UK and international experts, in relation
to the main theme of this year's festival, 'Channel Crossings' - Anglo-European
film relations before 1930.
Jean-Jacques Meusy (CNRS, Paris), leading French cinema historian and
author of definitive study of early French cinemas
Eric de Kuyper, former archivist at the Nederlands Film Museum, scholar,
filmmaker and novelist, and author of a ground-breaking study of the male
body in American cinema after the Code
Neil Brand, composer, accompanist and playwright
Luke McKernan and Simon Brown, research fellows on the London
Project of the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
Administrator
AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
Broadway
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham NG1 3AL
