- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1994
- Sections
- Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830, History of Art and Music, Culture, Media and Performance
- Website
- http://www.ianchristie.org
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.
