Public Engagement, Teaching and Research in Film Studies: A model of

integration

Dr David Forrest

Towards pubic engagement

in film studies

Sheffield Film Studies and

Sheffield Studies Film

Storying Sheffield

An inclusive approach to the analysis of film

Creative Reading

Michael

Michael

“The space of one’s lived experiences.”

Occupying the film text

“To say that a social subject is “within” the cinematic is not […] to focus just on the relation between

spectator and screen. Instead, emphasis shifts from the formation

of consciousness, identity, and ideology to how individuals or social groups have access to and move to and from the place(s) where they

engage films in their everyday lives.”

“Now we need a new term to describe

those who routinely produce such

material, but without the aim of being a

‘filmmaker’: perhaps we should talk of

someone as a ‘filmer’, just as computing

talks of ‘users’, making no binary

distinction between the amateur and the

professional. Nowadays we are

both.”

“Dorothy’s knowledge [...] of exactly why the Gaze is on her, entirely removes this voyeuristic element, as her confidence with narratives surrounding her own

presentation as a Woman of Steel gives her a sense of security. She knows exactly where and why the

camera is focusing on her, and instead of a kind of gazing, the

camera becomes a mechanism for Dorothy to enact a telling.”

Creative Approaches to Research in Screen

Studies