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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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Bruce Bennett
About
Bruce Bennett is Senior Lecturer and Director of Film Studies at Lancaster University. He is author of the monographs, Cycling and Cinema (Goldsmiths, 2019) and The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror (Columbia UP, 2014). He is co-editor of the collections, Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2016) and Cinema and Technology: Theories, Cultures, Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He is currently working with Katarzyna Marciniak on a critical study of refugee cinema.
Areas of Focus
Digital Aesthetics, Mobilities, Media Technology, Media Theory, Film Theory, Cinema History, 3D Cinema
Relevant Research
Cinema and Cycling: Technological Twins
The cinema of Michael Bay: An aesthetic of excess
Loving the Alien: Indigenous protest and neo-colonial violence in Avatar
The normativity of 3D: Cinematic journeys, “imperial visuality” and unchained cameras
Unexpected cinematic journeys and ethnographic spectacle in contemporary 3D films
Children and robots, technophobia and cinephilia
Cinema and Technology: Theories, Cultures
Towards a General Economics of Cinema
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