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.
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University College Cork to host ‘A Jazz Age Evening’ Gala Screening
UCC hosts a celebration of 1926 silent cinema with live musical accompaniment. Experience silent film as it was meant to be seen: on the big screen, with live music, in UCC’s Aula Maxima. Movies will feature screen icons Clara Bow and Alice Joyce.
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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
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