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Still from the film The Beaches of Agnès (2008), directed by Agnès Varda

Death and the image: an introduction to palliative filmmaking

29 May 2012

A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based...

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Chris O' Rourke

And the Oscar goes to...

25 Feb 2012

French silent film The Artist won best picture at Sunday night's Academy Awards. Chris O’ Rourke from the Faculty of English looks at the resurgence...

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Where dreams once began

Major players from the worlds of film and TV come to Cambridge for student film festival

22 Feb 2012

Watersprite: The Cambridge International Student Film Festival continues to grow in strength, attracting submissions from across the globe. This year...

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Stills from GPO film archive.

Letters through a lens

04 Nov 2011

The first full history of the General Post Office’s groundbreaking film unit reveals how Britain’s “creative epicentre” during the 1930s brought new...

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El Eternauta, Argentina

New perspectives on Latin America

17 Mar 2011

At the Centre of Latin American Studies, interdisciplinary research is offering a new perspective on the creativity, challenges and lessons that can...

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Dying Gaul from behind

How ancient Roman teens had it tough too

19 Apr 2010

Professor Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University and renowned author on Latin literature and history will give Newnham's biennial...

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Warsaw Uprising Memorial

Polish cinema in the frame

01 Jan 2010

Cinema was a central means of cultural expression in post-war Poland. Dr Matilda Mroz is asking how and why.

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King's College from The Backs

Six University scholars elected to British Academy

18 Jul 2008

Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars...

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Cinema

Celebrating cinema, from 1895 to the digital age

01 May 2008

Why have writers been so fascinated by cinema? What role might this 19th-century invention play in the digital age?

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