Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson discusses Pixar’s Toy Story on the Fantasy/Animation podcast
Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson featured as a guest on the Fantasy/Animation podcast for an episode on Toy Story.
Department news
Work of Film Studies honoured at BAFTSS awards 2024
The work of Film Studies staff and students was honoured at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies annual awards 2024.
Research grant and visit to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Dr Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal awarded a small grant to support his research into nineteenth and early twentieth century British visual media history at Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter.
Launch for major new book on George Hoyningen-Huene
A major new book on George Hoyningen-Huene, which features a chapter by Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson, is being launched with an event at the V&A.
Filmstrip Events across the UK
As part of Tom Rice's ongoing RSE network grant, "The Lost World of Filmstrips" (2022-2024), Rice has run a series of events, partnering with major UK institutions.
St Andrews staff and student shortlisted for BAFTSS awards 2024
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies has shortlisted the work of Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson and Julie Jaresova (graduated 2023) in their annual awards.
Kicking off an archival restitution project: Bolivian Miners’ Cinema
Chronicle of a train journey undertaken by a team of film scholars in search of archival materials that will bring back to life one of the most radical experiments of film technology transfer to the Bolivian proletariat.
RSE Small Grant for Tyler Parks
Dr Tyler Parks has won a Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Grant for his project ‘Infrastructural Cinema and the Remaking of the American West: Filmmaking at the United States Bureau of Reclamation, 1930-1965'
Aurora’s Sunrise: Discussion Guide for POV
Publication of discussion guide for the Aurora’s Sunrise (Inna Sahakyan, 2023) by Dr Leshu Torchin.
Sight & Sound best video essays of 2023
Work by Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson included in the Sight & Sound best video essays of 2023 list.