Professor Ian Christie FBA

Film and Media Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1994
Subjects
Art history

10-Minute Talks: Can watching films be good for us?

3 Jun 2020 Professor Ian Christie FBA

Film historian Professor Ian Christie FBA identifies some of the benefits, including unexpected ones, that we may gain from our viewing – which may well be greater than usual at this time.

Current post

Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck, University of London

Past appointments

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of Film and Media History

1999 -

Publications

The last machine: early cinema and the birth of the modern world

Published in 1994

Eisenstein rediscovered

Published in 1993

Arrows of desire: the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Published in 1985

The British Academy 10-Minute Talks: Can watching films be good for us?

3 Jun 2020 The British Academy on YouTube

Having taken part in a large empirical study of film viewing across the UK in 2011, Ian Christie will identify some of the benefits, including unexpected ones, that we may gain from viewing films.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor George Lewis FBA

Music composition and improvisation; interactive media and computer music; history and criticism of experimental music and improvised music (United States and Europe); critical improvisation studies

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Professor Andreas Xavier Schönle FBA

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices

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Professor Lisa Tickner FBA

History of British art in the late 19th and 20th centuries, including the imagery of the suffrage campaign, early 20th-century British modernism, art education, and the London art world in the 1960s.

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