Film

Today, film plays a major part in the academic research and teaching of the Faculty, but that’s a fairly recent development.Before that, indeed since the 1920s, thinking about film took place in the wider university and city community: in student film clubs and magazines, and in Cambridge’s many commercial cinemas. In this episode of the Cambridge English Faculty Podcast, Joseph Bitney, Kasia Boddy, and David Trotter discusssome of the alumnae and teachers who made a huge contribution to film and film studies (including Humphrey Jennings, Raymond Williams, Robin Wood, StephenHeath and Colin MacCabe) and some whose enjoyment of the movies fed into their work in other forms (such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Christopher Isherwood).  They also reflect on the history of cinema-going, the importance of a candle-lit high table for Russian avant-garde cinema, and the place of film in the contemporary humanities. Links to some of the videos and other resources discussed in the podcast:  • Lost Cinematic Palaces of Cambridge (https://therealcambridge.com/2012/03/...) • A Fragment of Memory, Part 1 (   • A Fragment of Memory Part 1  ) • A Fragment of Memory, Part 2 (   • A Fragment of Memory Part 2  ) • A Fragment of Memory, Part 3 (   • A Fragment of Memory Part 3  ) • Alfred Hitchcock's visit to the Cambridge University Film Society, 1966 (https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=762813) ____________________ The Cambridge English Faculty Podcast is produced collaboratively by each episode’s participants. All views expressed belong to the speaker, and not to any other entity or institution. Our theme music samples a 1915 recording of Felix Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, performed by the Victor Concert Orchestra, made freely available by the Library of Congress National Jukebox project. Audio edited by P. Knox.