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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 9m

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 9m

The Warwick Arts Centre is running the, ‘Big Screen, Bigger Emotions,’ part of the BFI Melodrama season, from October through to December.

We are asking former and current staff and students to share their thoughts on seeing Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows and your memories of seeing it at Warwick.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 2d

Michele Aaron appears on the ‘Death’ episode of Ellen E Jones’ and Mark Kermode’s Screenshot programme for Radio 4. It will be broadcast live tomorrow at 11:00 or you can hear it on BBC Sounds now. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Death

Ellen and Mark explore how films and TV depict death and dying.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 2d

We loved meeting all our visitors for Open Day. Huge thanks to our BAFTA-winning guest Sonya Khan for joining us, to our brilliant staff and our student ambassadors, Danni, Hannah, Lily, James, Alice and Katie! 🎬

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 11d

Today we welcomed our new first-year students with a scavenger hunt around campus. For bonus points, they were asked to recreate some famous film moments or posters. Can you guess what they are?

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 12d

Ritika Kaushik & Sean Batton co-curate the 'Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India' program for the L.A. Academy Museum, exploring Indian history and its fragmentations through a series of shorts.

The event will be held on Oct 23rd at 19:30 PT: www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/...

Nation and Its Fragments: Experimental Films from India

This program brings together experimental films from India that reckon with the history of the Indian nation and its fragments.

www.academymuseum.org

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 12d

Heath Pennington (they/them) is a certified intimacy coordinator drawing on over 15 years of theatre, film & television cast and crew experience to enable safe and consensual performances of nudity and simulated sex. Their interdisciplinary research investigates consent, oppression, kink and BDSM.

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 12d

Warwick’s Film Productjon students provided with “Introduction to Intimacy Coordination workshop”

Next week our production students will learn about the important of intimacy coordination on set with Heath Pennington.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 13d

The screening will be preceded by a conversation with the book’s co-editor, Dr Tiago de Luca, and followed by a drinks reception.

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 13d

Elemental World Cinema is the first book-length study to examine the relationship between cinema and the elemental. The volume instead on earth, fire, water and air to offer concrete and specific perspectives on the intersection of film and the nonhuman in a time of climate emergency.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 13d

To mark the publication of Elemental World Cinema: Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air (Brill), Cinema Mentiré is hosting a programme of contemporary Latin American short films exploring the four classical elements.

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Elemental World Cinema - Book Launch & Screening

Join us for a special free event of drinks and mesmerising short films to celebrate the launch of this new volume co-edited by Tiago de Luca

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 15d

Warwick Film and Television Studies would like to congratulate Hande Cayir on the successful completion of her PhD! 🥳

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Sep 15

Warwick Film and Television Studies has been ranked 1st in the Guardian University Guide 2026 for Media and Film Studies with a top overall score of 100 🎓

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tiago de Luca is providing the keynote address tomorrow at the Planetary Screens conference in Belfast. Tiago’s paper is titled, ‘Cinema in the Open World: Environments, Backgrounds, Relationality’. Further info can be found at the link below!

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Planetary Screens Conference - Queen's University Belfast - September 4 and 5, 2025

Environmental Crisis, Interconnected Lifeworlds and Sustainability in Film and Screen Media

planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Developed as part of the Cinema and Solidarity research project, funded by @warwickuni.bsky.social, these films explore acts of co-resistance, particularly among students of Palestinian or Jewish heritage.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jul 15

2025 graduates: please keep in touch! Scan the QR code or follow the link below to join our departmental alumni network and to let us know whether you would like to take part in any future alumni events: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jul 11

FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 23

Project partner the Cineteca di Bologna is hosting a digital archive containing the papers of three key women, 38 oral interviews and other resources that has been produced by the project. The archive will be inaugurated at the Cinema Ritrovato this week.

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 23

The exhibition 'Above and Below the Line: Women's Labour in Italian Cinema' opens this week at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. It is one of several outputs of the AHRC research project 'Women in Italian Film Production' of which Warwick FTV's Stephen Gundle is the principal investigator.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 18

We were delighted to screen the short films made by our finalist students on the Film Production module yesterday afternoon. Congratulations to all the filmmakers, performers, and crew.

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 16

Professor Michele Aaron is featured on the BBC website discussing her new film project, which shares the stories of people in the LGBTQ+ community who are facing the end of their lives.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Warwickshire LGBTQ+ people asked to share end of life stories

A new project at the University of Warwick aims to share LGBTQ+ people's stories of facing death.

www.bbc.co.uk

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 11

Stephen Gundle's 2013 book Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy has just come out in Italian with the Turin publisher Kaplan. Congratulations, Stephen!

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 9

As the Superhero film loses centrality in the culture there comes a book that is not only a brilliant accounting of its various strategies of adaptation but also offers a methodology that will be of interest to anyone engaged with media analysis: not only a brilliant book, but an important one.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · Jun 9

A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...

Jose Arroyo in Conversation with James Taylor on ….THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE AND MEANING

Just as the Superhero film loses centrality in the culture there comes a book that is not only a brilliant accounting of the various strategies of adaptations the mode engages with but also offers …

notesonfilm1.com

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · May 29

Professor Karl Schoonover will be giving a talk at CRASSH at Cambridge tomorrow as part of the ‘Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema’ conference. Details below.

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