Film and media

Faculty members researching in this area:

Permanent Postholders: Dr Andrew Klevan and Professor Laura Marcus.

Research and college staff:

Our research:

Film and media are relatively new areas of our teaching and research, but these are areas in which we hope to expand. Current areas of interest include: The everyday and ordinary in film; Film performance; The teaching of film; The film writing of Stanley Cavell. (Klevan); Early cinema and early film culture; Edwardian culture; modernism; literature and visual culture; the history of the body, including menstruation and nerves; the history of film theory; cinema as a cultural practice; intermediality; feminist theory. (Shail).

The Faculty is in receipt of a generous benefaction from Rupert Murdoch, which has funded a Professorship and a number of lecturerships with interests in language and media.

Recent publications:

Other information:

Each year the Faculty hosts the News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media.