Welcome to Film & Screen Media
Film and Screen Media at University College Cork is a vibrant community of lecturers, researchers and graduate students. Led by internationally recognised experts, and with a thriving visiting speakers and guest practitioners component, our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees explore the history of filmmaking through the study of films from around the world, from the birth of cinema to the age of the Internet.
News and Events
Dr Humberto Saldanha – “Screening Cosmopolitanism Otherwise: The Cosmopolitan Animal and Non-human Aesthetic in It Is Night in America”, Tue 17th @3pm
This talk argues that It Is Night in America (É Noite na América, 2022), by Brazilian visual artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz, theorises a renewed understanding of cosmopolitanism by expanding it to include animals.
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Elinor Dolliver – “Beyond Folk Horror: New Approaches to Folklore and Horror Cinema” - Mon 16th Feb @1pm
This seminar explores the meaningful parallels between horror cinema and folklore, looking beyond the popularity of folk horror as a subgenre and a source of theoretical perspectives. While the ‘folk horror revival’ bears important insights into how folklore is valued in popular culture, folk horror engages with a very specific understanding of folklore as ancient, esoteric and rural.
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The Department of Film and Screen Media Annual Film Artists Event – Thur 12th Feb @17.15
Eight UCC students have been awarded the prestigious title of Puttnam Scholar.
The Puttnam Scholarship programme offers UCC students from any discipline the opportunity to work with and learn from digital education pioneer Lord David Puttnam, Oscar-winning producer of films including Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields, and Midnight Express.
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