Professor Bruce Bennett

Professor in Film Studies

Current Teaching

POSTGRADUATE (PhD)

I am currently co-supervising the following PhD projects:

  • Areej Alghamdi, Saudi Women's Incorporeal Heritage
  • Ian Hunt, Cinema and memory
  • Johnathan Ilott, Cinema and the afterlife
  • Vicky James, The Migrant Mime - Documentary film and migrant identity
  • Mingkuo Li, Rebellious Youth Culture in East Asian Cinema, from the 1990s to the present
  • Rui Qian, Migrant workers in post-'90s Chinese cinema

I have supervised PhDs on a variety of topics including: TV movies, stardom, fanfiction, media culture and the British monarchy, film spectatorship, women's cinema, experimental film and video, science fiction, British and international cinema. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss ideas for a PhD project.

I also lecture on a number of modules on the MA and BA in Film Studies.

POSTGRADUATE (MA)

I contribute lectures to the following modules on the MA in Film Studies, Transnational Cinemas (LICA441) and Research Methods: Contemporary Film Theory (LICA440), Silent Cinema (LICA444), Women Film-makers (LICA449). I also supervise MA dissertations, including dissertations that combine practical film-making with theoretical study.

UNDERGRADUATE

I lead the second-year option module, Women Film-makers (LICA258), and the third-year option module, Silent Cinema (LICA355). I also leadthe first-year core module, British Cinema (LICA102), and the 1st-year Film Studies core module, Introduction to Film Studies (LICA150). I also contribute lectures to the 2nd-year core module, Global Cinemas: Forms, Debates, Histories (LICA251).

I supervise undergraduate dissertations on a variety of topics, including dissertations that combine film practice with theory.

IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
Research

Q & A with director Michael B Clifford
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Introduction to 'The Lost World' (Harry Hoyt, 1925)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

FREE workshops 2
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

In Conversation with Christopher Frayling
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Locus Lancaster.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Exiled Voices: Refugee Lives on Screen
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Introduction to the screening of 'Peeping Tom' (Powell, 1960).
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Public film discussion at the Dukes cinema
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Interview with director Sonita Gale
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

FREE Film Screening
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Refugee Education: Continuing Conversations 2
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Public film discussion at the Dukes cinema
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

FREE Workshops
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Public film discussion at the Dukes cinema
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Public film discussion at the Dukes cinema
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Public film discussion at the Dukes cinema.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Introduction to the screening of 'Peter von Kant' (Ozon, 2022)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Forum Insaniyyat Tunis 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Llantysilio - sound installation
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

'The Western belongs to all of us: The making of Sergio Leone's Once upon a Time in the West (1968)'
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

NECS 2022 conference - Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Refugee Cinema: Mediation and Crisis
Invited talk

British Textile Biennial 2021
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

'Running the family Firm': Book Launch panel discussion
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Interview with film director Harry MacQueen.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

NECS 2021 conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

'Becoming refugees' reading group
Invited talk

Introducing Manus prison theory: Knowing Border Violence
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Public Q and A with director Daniel Draper
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Cycling and Society Annual Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) annual conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Cycling and Cinema
Invited talk

Book launch: Cycling and Cinema
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Examining Gender in Cycling Cultures - Insights and Methods
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Afrika Eye North festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Art and Mobilities Network Inaugural symposium
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

NECS 2018 conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Panel discussion
Invited talk

Transnational Cinemas (Journal)
Editorial activity

NECS
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Ignorance and Inequality: Teaching Transnational Film
Invited talk

Mobilities Literature Culture
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Cycling and Society
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

NECS 2015 conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Senses of Cinema (Journal)
Editorial activity

Introduction to 'The Man who Fell to Earth'
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Cosmobilities: Networked Urban Mobilities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Transport in the Media
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Public lecture on memorial photography and death
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Screening Style: Costume, Cinema and Performance
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

La Belle et La Bete (Cocteau, 1946) - Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

"Re-imagining Sociology, re-imagining Society". SAANZ conference, 2013
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967). Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Child in Time
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

London Film and Media Conference 2013
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lancaster University Annual Student Film Society Screening
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Perspectives on Production Design
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Acting Up: Gender and Television Comedy symposium, University of Northumbria
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

'Forced migration: Challenges and Prospects in the Current Global Context'
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Touching War
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Introductory Lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Introductory lecture, Dukes cinema, Lancaster
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Regions and Regionalism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Disunited States: Cinema Beyond Nation-States
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

'Cinema and General Economy'
Invited talk

'Michael Winterbottom and the cinema of incompatibility'
Invited talk

Cinema and Technology
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Making use of Culture, Manchester University conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Re-reading Britain Today, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Screen conference, University of Glasgow
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Crash Cultures symposium, University of West England
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ICR film@Lancaster seminar series
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

ICR film@Lancaster seminar series, Lancaster University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

War and Media, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

  • Cultures
  • Insight