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Current Visiting Researchers

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  Alexander Pavlov's research interest is film studies and the philosophy on cinema.
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  Jenna Ng (Cambridge University) examines the function of machinima, films shown in virtual worlds, or media suspended in between game, image, avatar and our selves.
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  Robyn Citizen's research examines the functions of blackness in the reflexive construction of Japanese identities in Japanese cinema.
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Past Visiting Researchers

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  Rebecca Coyle is researching the on-screen presence of Bowen Island, and investigating early Australian cinema composers, and the soundscapes of Baz Luhrmann and The Jetsons.
  

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  Professor Philip Drake is researching the reception and political economy of Hollywood's operations in Canada.
  August-September 2009.

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  María del Mar Grandío will study the production of TV fiction in Canada, specially, the new ways of production in the new online platforms.

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  Professor Steffen Hantke is researching representations of the Cold War, January-May 2009.
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  Professor Angela Piccini is studying representations of archaeological heritage in factual screen media contextualized by the 2010 Olympic Games, January-September 2009.
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  Tomáš Pospíšil is a Visiting Scholar to UBC and Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.
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Events

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  Film Symposium on Migration, Multiculturalism and Misunderstandings: join us for a screening and discussion of two controversial European films about the chances and challenges of demographic changes in society. October 6, 2010
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Centre for Cinema Studies - Funded Research Projects

The Centre for Cinema Studies stimulates original and sound research into diverse areas of film and the wide dissemination of the results to the local and global community

 

Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914
Directed by Brian McIlroy. Executed by Dr. Peter Lester and PhD student Joshua Ferguson. 
Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant (20011-13)

"Digital Cinema in Transition: 
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Doris Baltruschat
Faculty of Arts HSS Research Grant (2011-2012)

Vancouver Goes to the Movies: Towards a Social and Contextual History of Cinemagoing and Film Exhibition in British Columbia, 1898-1929
Directed by Brian McIlroy. Executed by Dr. Diane Burgess, Shaun Inouye and Babak Tabarraee
Funded by UBC Hampton Grant (2010-12)

"Violence and New European Cinema"
Directed by Lisa Coulthard, executed by Dana Keller, Chelsea Birks and Tobias Winblad.
Undergraduate research project funded by the Faculty of Arts (2010-2011)

Film Distribution in North America, 1967-2007: the case of New Line Cinema
Directed by Ernest Mathijs and Rachel Talalay, executed by April Green and Dana Keller
Undergraduate research project funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2010)

Hot, Cool & Cult: the Global Reception of Contemporary Cult Cinema
Directed by Ernest Mathijs
funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2009-2012)
www.cultmovieresearch.com

Early Cinema in Downtown Vancouver
Directed by Brian McIlroy, executed by Sony Williams and Emma Myers
Undergraduate research project, funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2009)

Canadian Cinema Abroad: the International Reception of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Dax Sorrenti
Undergraduate research project, funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2008)

Love’s Violence: Sadism, Masochism and Courtly Love in Contemporary European Cinema
Directed by Lisa Coulthard
funded by Hampton Research Fund (2007-08)

Irish Genres: Cinema and Society 1981-2006
Directed by Brian McIlroy
funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2006-08)
Irish Genres: Cinema and Society