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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elemental-...

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 · 10d

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 · 24d

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!

planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com

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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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · May 28

Happening today!

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · May 20

The next FTV research seminar will take place on the Wednesday of Week 6 at 4:30pm in the FAB cinema. We are delighted to welcome Karen Redrobe, who will be presenting the paper, Death in ‘Undead’. Further details on poster.

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · May 24

Our warmest wishes to former colleague and long-time friend of the Department, Professor Ginette Vincendeau on her retirement. Seen here with Professor Ed Gallafent and Richard Perkins at The BFI yesterday evening.

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Jess | Saturday Morning at the Movies @jess-sinclair.bsky.social · May 23

It was amazing to present my dissertation research on the 1930s schoolgirl movie to the Warwick film department! Well done everyone for their fantastic presentations :)

Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · May 22

It was great to see our MA students presenting their dissertation topics yesterday. Here are a selection of photographs from the day. Well done to all!

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · May 22

Further information and useful links for support are available at the following web address: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling of 16 April 2025 on the definition of woman by biological sex under the Equality Act 2010 and the guidance published by the Equality and Human Rights ...

All staff in Film and Television Studies recognise and share the concerns of students and colleagues regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling of 16 April 2025. We strive to create a learning environmen…

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