Facilities

The Department of Film Studies uses several dedicated teaching rooms, all of which have been fitted with Blu-ray players for screenings.

The Byre conference room

Most Honours and MLitt seminars take place in a specially fitted teaching room in the recently re-opened Byre Theatre. 3D projection for seminars and screenings is available, and the layout is designed to promote student-led discussion.

The Film Studies boardroom

This is a dedicated teaching space located in the Department building on 99 North Street. Honours and MLitt seminars, as well as many first and second year tutorials are located in this room, which features a large projection screen. This is also the location for the Department’s research speaker series.

Buchanan Lecture Theatre

Renovated with state-of the art projection facilities, the Buchanan Lecture Theatre is the lecture and screening space for first year classes.

Library

The Library houses a growing collection of international films, books, and journals.

The collection consists of over 5,500 books classified under Film Studies and related subjects (from a collection of over 1.2 million print monographs and 69,000 electronic books). It also includes approximately 100 film, television and media-related journals (over 65 available electronically).

The Library hosts one of the best collections of international cinema on DVD, holding over 9,300 AV materials and including a range of extremely rare films and holdings. The University has access to specialist databases for Film Studies. These include:

• Box of Broadcasts
• Film Indexes Online
• Film and Television Literature Index Full-text
• British Universities Film
• Video Council (BUFVC)
• British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
• Ethnographic Video Online.

Through the University’s Library Enhancement Fund the Department has acquired a range of specialist materials, including rare film collections and databases. These include:

• "Pioneers of African-American Cinema" film collection
• Jonas Mekas: The Major Works
• Jean Rouch: Six Films (Jaguar/ The Lion Hunters/ Little By Little/ Moi, Un Noir/ Mammy Water/ The Mad Masters)
• Counter-Music (Harun Farocki, 2004)
• Parallele I-IV (Harun Farocki, 2012)
• Warner Collection Archive (70 additional titles to complete existing holdings)
• Video in the Villages collection from DER
• Third World Newsreel – the indigenous videos made by CEFREC-CAIB
• Leena Manimekalai (collection of 12 DVDs)
• Complete films of Anand Patwardhan
• Arthur Lipsett films
• Rare DVDs Documentary and Experimental Film – selection of 15 titles
• Queer cinema – selection of ten titles including work of Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich
• Documentaries – selection of nine titles including work of Frederick Wiseman and Guillermo Gomez-Pena
• Experimental Film – selection of 48 titles (including work of Bruce Baillie,  Ken Jacobs, Jordan Belson and Kurt Kren)
• Asian Studies in Video (online database)
• Ethnographic Video Online I and II (online database)