Academy Award Winner

70 years of Cambridge at the Oscars

24 February 2015

As Eddie Redmayne brings home an Academy Award for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the film Theory of Everything we've started to check the shelves for other Oscars won by Cambridge Alumni.

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥view from the top of the stands of Lee Valley VeloPark, London.

Sports calibrated

06 February 2015

New methods of gathering quantitative data from video – whether shot on a mobile phone or an ultra-high definition camera – may change the way that sport is experienced, for athletes and fans alike.

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Production still from 'Jaywick Escapes', a film by Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope

Curating Cambridge: Kettle's Yard autumn season

17 September 2014

This autumn Kettle’s Yard hosts four varied and inspiring exhibitions  - Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie take over the main gallery with the first major survey of their work, Issam Kourbaj installs his moving piece Unearthed (In Memoriam) in St Peter's Church next to Kettle's Yard, Gwen Raverat's wood engravings are on display in a room in the house, and for one week only an exhibition of photographs by Katherine Green and the North Cambridge Girls Group takes place in the Learning Studio.

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A screenshot from the 1971 British gangster film Villain, starring Richard Burton. Dir. Michael Tuchner

Cinematic geographies of Battersea

07 May 2013

Research is combining film ‘archaeology’ with digital technology to create a new approach to ‘sites of memory’ for the London borough of Battersea.

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Gurkha recruits awaiting inspection c.1950.  ̽»¨Ö±²¥never-before-seen footage has been released to mark the launch of the Amateur Cinema Studies Network, http://amateurcinemastudies.org.

Candid camera

19 June 2012

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its own right, offering a surprisingly candid eye on people and the past. Now a new research network will, for the first time, bring their work together in one place.

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Argentinian graves in East Falkland. While soldiers were often characterized as victims of the junta in the war’s immediate aftermath, they are now seen by many as patriots who died for a righteous cause.

Falklands/Malvinas: A national cause

07 June 2012

Thirty years after it ended, the Falklands/Malvinas War still casts a long shadow over the lives of many Argentinians. A conference marking the anniversary next week will look at how it has been represented in history, literature, cinema and other media, showing how through these we can better understand why Argentina cares so much about the islands.

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