{"id":1382,"date":"2017-05-04T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:24:37","slug":"film-at-kent-excels-at-the-british-association-of-film-television-and-screen-studies-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2017\/05\/04\/film-at-kent-excels-at-the-british-association-of-film-television-and-screen-studies-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Film at Kent excels at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2017\/05\/Sayad-Art-F2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1384\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2017\/05\/Sayad-Art-F2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2017\/05\/Sayad-Art-F2.jpg 703w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2017\/05\/Sayad-Art-F2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2017\/05\/Sayad-Art-F2-422x300.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><br \/>\n(Dr Cecilia Sayad collecting her award)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Film department at Kent had a thoroughly productive evening\u00a0at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Notable achievements at the BAFTSS Awards were:<\/p>\n<p>Cecilia Sayad won the Best Journal Article award for \u2018Found-Footage Horror and the Frame\u2019s Undoing\u2019 (<em>Cinema Journal <\/em>55.2)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018A comprehensive and persuasive analysis of the\u00a0\u2018found footage horror\u2019\u00a0subgenre:\u00a0the article\u00a0skilfully balances the particular and general in a way that\u2019s appealing to a broad readership.\u00a0Its discussion of the frame as a figurative and stylistic device is rich and ambitious. Overall, this is an important contribution that casts new light on the wider significance of documentary style, narrative space and\u00a0the screen\u2019s borders.\u00a0Sayad\u2019s analysis of the Paranormal Activity\u00a0films equally considers optical and aural dimensions arguing for a flexible and porous interpretation of the filmic frame.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mattias Frey\u2019s <em>Extreme Cinema <\/em>(Rutgers UP) received honourable mention in the Best Monograph category<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Frey\u2019s book is superbly researched and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary extreme cinema and its place in film culture. \u00a0The book is impressive and original in its engagement with the apparatus of production, distribution and exhibition of extreme cinema, and it is refreshing to see this approached from an institutional perspective.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frances Guerin and Lies Lanckman contributed chapters, respectively, for the recipient of honourable mention (<em>Cinemas of Paris<\/em>) and the winner (<em>Lasting Screen Stars<\/em>) of the Best Edited Collection award<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the BAFTSS awards <a href=\"http:\/\/baftss.org\/awards\/outstanding-achievement-award\/awards-2017\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Dr Cecilia Sayad collecting her award) &nbsp; The Film department at Kent had a thoroughly productive evening\u00a0at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2017\/05\/04\/film-at-kent-excels-at-the-british-association-of-film-television-and-screen-studies-awards\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,124,9112,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}