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Heritage Futures is a four-year collaborative international research programme (2015–2019) funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ Theme Large Grant, and supported additionally by its host universities and partner organisations. The research programme involves ambitious interdisciplinary research to explore the potential for innovation and creative exchange across a broad range of heritage and related fields, in partnership with a number of academic an...

The broader objective of this study is to provide a critical assessment of the accusations of revelationism, relativism and phoney scientism levelled at Gilles Deleuze by Malcolm Turvey and other theorists belonging to the cognitive movement in film theory. While cognitivists are opposed to continental theory in general, a significant chunk of their criticism has been directed towards Lacanian and Marxist approaches. While cognitivists such as Bordwell, Currie and Smith have made reference to...

When cinema owners and managers in the USA and the United Kingdom wired their theatres for sound, most of them promptly dismissed their orchestras. As a consequence of that and other economic, technical and aesthetic alterations then underway in the cinema business, a significant change occurred in relations between exhibitors and a key group of employees in the years from 1927 to 1933. These were the workers (generally known as ‘operators’) responsible for screening the films. This paper f...