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Screenshots from D.W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909)

Grand designs: the role of the house in American film

27 May 2016

It’s black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith’s 1909 classic The Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes...

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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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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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