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MA/DIPLOMA in EUROPEAN CINEMA STUDIES
● Uniquely integrated programme exploring wide range of national cinemas (including Britain, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia) within the context of contemporary European culture and society.
● Combines rigorous academic study and research training with practical film and video-making skills, and an analysis of the European film industry in relation to issues of production, distribution, and exhibition.
● Core modules include: Film and Critical Theory; Culture and Identity in Contemporary Europe; Research Methods; The Film Business. Options include: Film and Society; History of Cinema; Techniques and Technologies; Film and Identity; Images in Transit. (All dedicated post-graduate modules.)
● Taught by Film Research Group with international reputation for excellence, complemented by distinguished visiting speakers representing all aspects areas of film & media, including industry
● Visiting Film Director
● Choice of 15,000 word Dissertation or Film Project.
● Choice of full-time (one year) or flexible part-time structures.
● Vibrant research culture; funding available for further research; based in Department of European Studies and Modern Languages with well-established reputation for excellence
For further information contact:
Wendy Everett
Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: ++ 44 (0) 1225 386482
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Email: w.everett@bath.ac.uk
Web: www.bath.ac.uk/esml/cinema/
Photos clockwise from top left:
Saul Zaentz with his BAFTA; the poster for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; a scene from Amadeus
Academy’s five main awards. To date Zaentz’s films have won a total of 22 Oscars as well as a hat- ful of BAFTAs.
There were no fewer than nine, including Best Film, for his last film, The English Patient, in 1996 along with the presentation of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award “for consistently high quali- ty of motion picture production.”
So what did the presentation of the Fellowship mean to him? Clearly thrilled, he said, “The only one you can compare it with is the Thalberg as it’s directly from your peers. This British award is being recognised from another country not specifically for a pic- ture but for what you’ve done and been associated with. That’s very moving.”
It may have been seven years since his last film but Zaentz is still full of new movie plans including another collaboration with direc- tor Milos Forman on the life of Goya as well as an adaptation of Booker Prize-winning JM
Coetzee’s first novel, Waiting For The Barbarians.
Age clearly does not wither him. “Actually I’m in pretty good shape; the only thing is I’m over- weight, have been for the last 15 years but I’m trying to do some- thing about that.”
Zaentz enthusiastically sub- scribes to a couple of great lines from black baseball pitcher, Satchel Paige. “He once said, ‘Don’t look back they might be gaining on you.’ But his line I like the most is, ‘How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?’ Think about it.”
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