Film Studies

Research Seminars and Visiting Speakers

Visiting speakers invited to lecture on Film at UCC over the past years include:

• The MA in FILM STUDIES was launched by Lord David Puttnam with a public lecture, "Why Film Matters - Maybe More Than Ever!"
• Prof. Phil Powrie (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne): "I'm only here for the beer": Post-tourism and the recycling of French heritage films; 'Of suits and men in the films of Luc Besson'
• Prof. Sam Rohdie (Queen's University, Belfast): 'Film and Landscape'
• Prof. Francesco Casetti (Università Cattolica, Milan): 'To Make The Truth. Rhetoric and Pragmatics of the Neorealist Film'
• Dr Ewa Mazierska (Manchester Metropolitan): 'Nanni Moretti: Portrait of the Humble Artist'
• Prof. Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica, Milan): 'Defining the Filmic Rhythm: On the Beginnings and Endings of Pinocchio'
• Ms Pauline Small (Queen Mary, University Of London): 'Heritage Cinema - Italian Style'
• Dr Chris Wagstaff (University of Reading): 'Direction in Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948)'
• Dr Frances Guerin (University of Kent)
• Edward Buscombe
• Betsy Blair (Best Supporting Actress nomination for Marty, 1955)
• Jack Cardiff (cinematographer and director)
• Kevin Brownlow (director, writer, historian)
• Prof. Lucy Fisher (University of Pittsburgh)