[ecrea] PhD Scholarship opportunity - Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University

*Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment*

*School of Arts*

*3 years full-time fees will be paid by the University*

*Bursary: £7,000 pa **(with no inflation increase).*

*Deadline: *The closing date for applications is*15^th February 2016*

*Interview date: *Interviews will be held in week beginning *1^st March
2016*

*Eligibility: Home/EU*

*Start date:  April 2016 (at the latest)*

The Film Studies unit within the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes
University is pleased to offer a three year full-time PhD studentship
commencing in September 2016. The successful applicant will receive an
annual bursary of £7,000 for three years (with no inflation increase),
and fees will be paid by the University. The candidate will need to
demonstrate that in addition to the studentship other funding is
available for them to successfully complete the programme in full-time
study.

*Area of research*: /New Cinema History: Reconstructing film culture
through memories, cinema-going practices and film consumption/

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Since the mid-1980s, cinema historians have insisted on the importance
of researching the distribution, exploitation and reception of film,
instead of solely concentrating on its production context. This research
strand - now defined as New Cinema History (Maltby, Stokes & Allen 2007;
Maltby, Biltereyst & Meers 2011) - has greatly enhanced and expanded the
field of cinema studies as it acknowledges the diversity in film
production, distribution, exhibition, but above all the overtly ignored
cinema audiences. New Cinema History envisions a social history of a
cultural institute aimed to identify film as a cultural artifact
consumed by a variety of audiences. Using socio-economic, ethnographic
and other methods, New Cinema History has underlined the heterogeneity
of cinema cultures and the influence of the social, cultural and
historical conditions such as region, class, race and ideology. In order
to engage with cinema cultures in their social, historical and cultural
context of everyday life, scholars left the field of broad
generalizations and large quantitative research designs to focus on
close, detailed studies of specific places, people and chronologies.

The aim of the research is to tap into one of the unexplored film
practices looking at a specific European case study from the post-war
period to the present. The project can be fully inscribed into the Arts
and Media sector, but through its analysis, is tangent to other social
and scientific fields such as: social science, tourism, anthropology,
geography and cultural heritage studies.

The research proposal should aim:

1.To uncover aspects of film culture (cinema-going practices, exhibition
and distribution strategies, etc.) taking one or some European countries
as case-studies for the investigation

2.To explore the audiences’ point of viewby collecting oral evidence, as
well as questionnaires, audience-focus groups and interviews

3.To make use of creative methodologies (geographical, anthropological,
statistical, etc.) in order to to understand the manner in which film
texts are embedded in the wider social histories of popular
entertainment, consumption, and domestic leisure.

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*How to apply:*  Please request an application pack from Ms Anna
Guarnieri (tdestudentships /at/ brookes.ac.uk)
<mailto:(tdestudentships /at/ brookes.ac.uk)>, quoting ‘New Cinema History’ in
the subject line.


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Dr Daniela Treveri Gennari

Reader in Film Studies
School of Arts
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP
email: (dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk)

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