Screen's 50th Anniversary
Screen's 50th Anniversary
Screen Education, the journal that was to become Screen, was launched in October 1959. Between that date and October 1968, forty-six issues of Screen Education appeared. The journal's first issue under its new title appeared in January 1969 as volume 10, number 1.
During 2009, Screen hosted special events and celebrations to mark the journal's 50th birthday, including a the Anniversary Screen Studies Conference in July, a bumper issue of the journal (volume 50, number 1), and Screen-sponsored postgraduate research events. Details and reports of all the anniversary events are archived below.
Programme
Programme
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7 November 2008
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Launch event: Tate Modern, London A rare screening of Sigmund Freud's Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity was followed by a discussion with Alison Butler, John Caughie, Annette Kuhn, Mark Nash and Claire Pajaczkowska.
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| 6 December 2008 |
Transnational East Asian Cinema: a Symposium and Videoconferenced Research Seminar Series |
| 21 January 2009 |
Michel Chion, Audition Musicale and Film Sound talk : University of Edinburgh Read report. |
| 6 February 2009 |
Sound Design and Cinema: University of Edinburgh |
| 20 March 2009 |
The TV Classic: one day symposium, University of Warwick Read report, Reflecting on Classic Television. |
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26-27 March 2009 |
Animation and Automation 26th March: University of Manchester. Speaker: Vivian Sobchack 27th March: Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University
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| 25 April 2009 |
Studies beyond the Screen: a symposium University of Exeter Read symposium report
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| 1 May 2009 |
The Screen Anniversary Béla Balázs Symposium |
| 23 June 2009 |
Screen event: Edinburgh International Film Festival Gerald Peary's entertaining documentary about the history of film criticism was followed by a discussion with Sight and Sound editor Nick James and Screen editor Professor John Caughie. |
| 3-5 July 2009 |
50th Anniversary Screen Studies Conference University of Glasgow |
| 10-12 July 2009 |
Colour and the Moving Image - History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive University of Bristol. Speakers: Tom Gunning, Laura Mulvey. Included All the Hues of Nature, a screening event about colour restoration. |
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15 August - 5 September 2009 |
50 Years of Screen: a display on Screen journal in the Bodleian library View photograph of launch. View a slideshow of Screen covers from 1959 onwards. |
