[ecrea] Film and Television Studies Post at Brunel

>Id like to draw your attention to a new senior 
>post which has been created in the School of Arts at Brunel:
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>Screen Media, School of Arts
>Subject Leader: Dr. Sean Holmes
>Email: <mailto:(sean.holmes /at/ brunel.ac.uk)>(sean.holmes /at/ brunel.ac.uk).
>Telephone (Direct Line): +44 (0)1895 266832
>
>Professor/Reader in Screen Media
>
>Brunel University wishes to appoint a 
>Professor/Reader in the field of Screen 
>Media.  We are seeking a leading academic with a 
>strong international research profile and a 
>proven record in teaching and 
>administration.  Screen Media at Brunel 
>University incorporates five discrete 
>programmes: a BA in Film and Television Studies 
>(also available as a joint-honours option); a BA 
>in Games Design (joint honours only); an MA in 
>Cult Film and Television; an MA in Documentary 
>Practice; and an MA in Digital Games: Theory and 
>Design.  All our programmes reflect Brunel 
>Universitys commitment to the principle of 
>research-led teaching.  The successful candidate 
>should have teaching and research interests in 
>the fields of Film and Television Studies or 
>Digital Games.  She/he will be required to make 
>a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching.
>
>Research in this area is led by the Screen Media 
>Research Centre which has established a 
>substantial body of work in a range of screen 
>media, principally film, television and 
>videogames.  Four themes provide major strands 
>within and across which much of the research is 
>organized: cult media; national and 
>transnational film and television; the politics 
>of representation; articulations of spectacle, 
>documentary and the real.  The centre is also 
>home to the Cult Film Archive, an 
>internationally recognised resource dedicated to 
>the study of a range of cult media.  All staff 
>in the subject area were entered in the 2008 
>Research Assessment Exercise, with 96 per cent 
>of outputs rated as of international standard or 
>above.  The successful applicant will be 
>expected to make a significant contribution to 
>research in Screen Media, including its 
>submission to the 2012 Research Excellent 
>Framework.  An established track record of 
>research student supervision, as well as 
>evidence of success in obtaining external 
>funding would be particularly welcome.
>
>
>
>For further information please contact the 
>Subject Leader for Screen Media  details above.
>
>
>
>Julian Petley,
>Professor of Screen Media and Journalism,
>School of Arts,
>Brunel University,
>Uxbridge,
>UB8 3PH.
>
>Direct line: 01895 265479
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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