MA in Film and Screen Studies - additional information

MA Film and Screen Studies staff

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Staff appointment news

Goldsmiths’ Department of Media and Communications is pleased to announce the appointment of SEAN CUBITT as Professor of Film and Television Studies, with effect from 1 August 2012, replacing Chris Berry.

Sean Cubitt is the author of Timeshift: On Video Culture (Routledge), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Palgrave), Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory (Sage), Ecomedia (Rodopi Press) and The Cinema Effect (MIT Press).

	Professor Chris Berry Chris Berry is Professor of Film & TV Studies and Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Media Research Centre (funded by the Leverhulme Trust). He writes on the role of East Asian screen-based media in the production of national, transnational, and local cultures and identities; and the connection between screen-based media forms and socio-political developments. His publications include (with Mary Farquhar), Cinema and the National: China on Screen (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (New York: Routledge, 2004); (edited with Ying Zhu) TV China (Indiana University Press, 2008); (editor) Chinese Films in Focus II (British Film Institute, 2008); (edited with Feii Lu) Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005); and (ed. with Fran Martin and Audrey Yue), Mobile Cultures: New Media and Queer Asia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003). [find out more]
	Dr Kay Dickinson Dr Kay Dickinson’s work examines interactions between popular music, film and television, and more recently, media from the Arab world, particularly Egyptian and Palestinian film production. She is the editor of Movie Music, The Film Reader (Routledge, 2002), and co-editor of Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity (BFI Publishing, 2004). [find out more]
	Dr Rachel Moore Dr Rachel Moore writes on early film history and theory; the historical and contemporary avant garde. She is author of Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic, (Duke University Press, 2000), and Nostalgia (2006, MIT and Afterall Press) [find out more]
	Dr Pasi Valiaho Dr Pasi Valiaho’s work cuts across the areas of early and pre-cinema, film theory and philosophy, digital culture, and media and technology. He is author of Mapping the Moving Image: Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2010) and co-editor of several anthologies (in Finnish) on media theory and philosophy. [find out more]