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Screen Award

Screen Award for excellence in Screen Studies

In 1994 Screen created an occasional Award of £1000 to go to the writer(s) of the best article or research paper(s) submitted to the journal during a particular year.

In 2006/2007 Screen was delighted to make the award to the following author:

Chris Cagle (Temple University), Two Modes of Prestige Film', (48/3)

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About the Screen Award

The aim of the Award is to promote research and scholarship in screen
studies and to encourage new and younger scholars. Entries are judged
anonymously.

Screen is once again offering the prize for the best research paper or article submitted during 2008. All manuscripts received by Screen during 2008 will be considered for the Award.

The qualifying period for entry into the competition for the Award runs
from 1 January to 31 December of a chosen year. All articles or research
papers received by Screen during the qualifying period will be eligible for
consideration.

Previous Winners

2004-2005: Helen Piper (University of Bristol), 'Reality TV, Wife Swap and the Drama of Banality', (45/4) and Malin Wahlberg (Stockholm University), 'Wonders of Cinematic Abstraction: JC Mol and the Aesthetic Experience of Science Film', (47/3).

2002: Jodi Brooks (University of New South Wales), 'Ghosting the Machine: The Sounds of Tap and the Sounds of Film', (44/4)

1998-9: Julianne Pidduck (then Warwick University, now Lancaster University), 'Of Windows and Country Walks: Frames of Space and Movement in 1990s Austen Adapations', (39/4)

1996-7: Lalitha Gopalan (Georgetown University), 'Avenging Women in Indian Cinema', (38/1).

1994-5: Ravi Vasudevan (Centre for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi), 'Addressing the Spectator of a 'Third World' National Cinema: The Bombay "Social" Film of the 1940s and 1950s' (36/4); and Shelley Stamp Lindsey (Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz), 'Is Any Girl Safe?: Female Spectators at the White Slave Films' (37/1).