[ecrea] Collaborative Doctoral Award at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

An exciting PhD opportunity has arisen to explore the popularity of 
immersive and interactive images in visual culture 1820-1920.  This 
Collaborative Doctoral Award will be based on the extensive and unique 
resources of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Many new visual formats and 
optical devices in the period were characterised by their ‘immersive’ 
qualities: these could be experienced within the home or as part of a 
lecture, performance or fairground attraction. Circular and moving 
panoramas awed with enormous canvases; the diorama created illusionistic 
tableaux; stereographs beguiled with a 3D world, while the many 
varieties of peepshow promised a garish experience of battles and 
far-off places. If that was not enough, many printed ephemera and toys 
required an embodied spectator. ‘Immersion’ is often seen as a defining 
characteristic of contemporary digital media, but this CDA will 
elaborate a much longer genealogy. Within the broad parameters of the 
research project, the student will have the freedom to define and shape 
the project, and to decide which formats and media to focus on.

The studentship is offered through the South West and Wales Doctoral 
Training Partnership. The supervisory team is Prof John Plunket 
<https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/plunkett/>t, Department 
of English, University of Exeter; Dr Phil Wickham, Curator of The Bill 
Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter and Prof. Julia Thomas 
<https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/99203-thomas-julia>, Cardiff 
University. The closing date for applications is 11 January 2019.

Project specific enquiries should be directed to the lead supervisor: 
Prof John Plunkett (J.Plunkett /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(J.Plunkett /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>. To find out more on the scheme and the 
application process go to the full advertisement here at

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3417


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