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Cinema seats

Darwinian ideas explored on the big screen

21 Oct 2012

Charles Darwin’s relevance to today’s society will be explored in a four film series at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse from Monday.

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Gurkha recruits awaiting inspection c.1950. The never-before-seen footage has been released to mark the launch of the Amateur Cinema Studies Network, http://amateurcinemastudies.org.

Candid camera

19 Jun 2012

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its...

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Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats

Beyond the box office: are industry experts getting the movie business wrong?

15 Jun 2012

What is it that makes a movie successful? A faculty member from the Cambridge Judge Business School believes that the industry and experts are...

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Argentinian graves in East Falkland. While soldiers were often characterized as victims of the junta in the war’s immediate aftermath, they are now seen by many as patriots who died for a righteous cause.

Falklands/Malvinas: A national cause

07 Jun 2012

Thirty years after it ended, the Falklands/Malvinas War still casts a long shadow over the lives of many Argentinians. A conference marking the...

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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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Erich Honecker, leader of the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until 1989. The film follows not only his demise as head of state, but the story of what happened next.

The End Of Honecker

17 May 2012

A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing interview with his apparently unrepentant...

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Kodak Color Film.

The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

14 Mar 2012

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite...

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Left: Klee's Angelus Novus. Right: Kiefer's Sprache der Vogel. Winter argues that the progression from one image to the other represents a process of gradual "effacement" in art depicting war.

The carriers of memory

06 Mar 2012

Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely...

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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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Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

Great handbags - but what about the politics?

28 Jan 2012

Audiences are spellbound by Meryl Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. As a PhD student looking at British politics in the...

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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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