Interesting event at Liverpool Uni's Pol and Comm school....
City in Film Symposium
City in Film: Liverpool’s Urban Landscape and the Moving Image is a research project exploring the relationship between the city’s architecture and film. This symposium examines the project’s different aspects includes lectures, discussions, and a film screening and is open to academics, film-makers and collectors and the general public.
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| Date: | 1st November 2006 | |
| Time: | 10.00-7.00pm | |
| Venue: | Budden Lecture Theatre, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, Oxford Road , (Accessible venue) | |
| Programme: | Click to download | |
| Invited Speakers: | Professor Ian Christie, Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London
Professor Iain Borden, Director of the School of Architecture, The Bartlett, UCL Dr Vanessa Toulmin, Research Director at the National Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield, and Joint Co-ordinator of the Mitchell and Kenyon Archive Professor Michael Chanan, Documentary Filmmaker and Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. Professor Chanan will be presenting a screening of his film Detroit: Ruin of a City (2005) Elizabeth Lebas, Reader in Visual Culture at Middlesex University in London. Presentation topic: The Glasgow Corporation’s documentary film commissioning from 1920-1980. |
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| Cost: | students/concessions: £10 university staff: £20 others: £30 Admission fee includes buffet lunch, tea/coffee and refreshments | |
| Contact Address: | Les Roberts & Richard Koeck, City in Film Research Office, School of Architecture, The University of Liverpool, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX | |
| Telephone: | 0151 794 2608 | |
| Web: | http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/cityinfilm/ | |
| Booking: | Please email cityinfilm@liverpool.ac.uk to reserve a place at the symposium |