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The Department of Film and Television is delighted to announce that we have two MA Scholarships to award for the academic year 2016-17. Both scholarships are fee waivers only. The scholarships will be awarded to outstanding students proposing topics for further research which will enhance the research profile of the Department.

Edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge, Slow Cinema is a new anthology that 'Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history'. Published by Edinburgh University Press , it features Dr. Schoonover's important article "Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema’s Labouring Body, The Political Spectator, and the Queer", which was originally published in Framework Vol 53, No.1 (Spring 2012).

Dr. Rachel Moseley spoke to Trish Adudu and Jo Tidman about her new book 'Handmade Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974' on Trish and Jo at Breakfast on BBC Radio Conventry and Warwickshire on December 28, 2015

We are pleased to annouce that Dr. Rachel Moseley's new book 'Handmade Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974' has just been published by Palgrave-Macmillan.

Hand-Made Television explores the ongoing enchantment of many of the much-loved stop-frame children's television programmes of 1960s and 1970s Britain. The first academic work to analyse programmes such as Pogles' Wood (1966), Clangers (1969), Bagpuss (1974) (Smallfilms) and Gordon Murray's Camberwick Green (1966), Trumpton (1967) and Chigley (1969), the book connects these series to their social and historical contexts while providing in-depth analyses of their themes and hand-made aesthetics. Hand-Made Television shows that the appeal of these programmes is rooted not only in their participatory address and evocation of a pastoral English past, but also in the connection of their stop-frame aesthetics to the actions of childhood play. This book makes a significant contribution to both Animation Studies and Television Studies; combining scholarly rigour with an accessible style, it is suitable for scholars as well as fans of these iconic British children's programmes.

At the conference 'ESTETICA, IDENTITÀ E INDUSTRIA CULTURALE DEL CINEMA LOCALE
Sardegna e periferie europee dagli anni Novanta a oggi', the department's Karl Schoonover will deliver a talk entitled, "Sardinia, cinematic space, and departicularised place" on 14 December. For more information, .