Cinema Cultures

Cinema Cultures will showcase to students the innovative, inter-disciplinary ways of working with film and media, in this process, will foreground the value of film and media both to St Andrews’ local culture and to our wider critical understanding of cultural industries and related topics (such as tourism and heritage).

The VIP, which builds on an existing local film history project (cinemastandrews.org.uk) will ask a series of research questions:

  • What can we learn about cinema through the local example of St Andrews?
  • What are the best methods and materials to present these histories to varied audiences (online, apps, 3D recreations etc)?
  • What is the wider value of such studies (business/industry, social history) and how can we connect this to other projects?

Cinema Cultures is imagined as a multi-semester project, with opportunities to work with partners within the University (eg. Wardlaw Museum, Special Collections, St Andrews Film Festival), locally (NPH, St Andrews Golf Museum, St Andrews Preservation Trust, Fife Council) and nationally (Moving Image Archive, Tayscreen).

The project will help situate film within St Andrews’ rich cultural history, for example by collaborating with St Andrews Photography Festival/Special Collections to connect local photographic history to early cinema in town. It can also reach beyond St Andrews by subsequently connecting these findings with other Scottish partners. For students, this will provide valuable practical experience, developing leadership, teamwork and connecting them more directly to the town and its inhabitants.

 

Project supervisor

Dr Shruti Narayanswamy
[email protected]

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