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Screen's 50th Anniversary

Screen is 50!

Screen Education, the journal that was to become Screen, was launched in October 1959. Between that date and October 1968, forty-six issues of Screen Education appeared. The journal's first issue under its new title appeared in January 1969 as volume 10, number 1.

Throughout 2009, Screen has hosted special events and celebrations to mark the journal's 50th birthday, including a special Anniversary Screen Studies Conference in July, a bumper issue of the journal and Screen-sponsored postgraduate research events. Details and reports of events are archived below. Our final event of the year, an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, runs from 15 August to 5 September.

Calendar of Events

7 November 2008
Launch event: Tate Modern, London.

A rare screening of Sigmund Freud's Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity was followed by a discussion with Alison Butler, John Caughie, Annette Kuhn, Mark Nash and Claire Pajaczkowska.
Photograph of panel.
6 December 2008
A Screen-sponsored, Postgraduate event
Transnational East Asian cinema since 1997: a Symposium and Videoconferenced Research Seminar Series
University of Southampton
Read conference report.
6 February 2009
Sound Design and Cinema: University of Edinburgh
Read the report here.
20 March 2009
The TV Classic: one day symposium, University of Warwick.
Read the report
26-27 March 2009
Animation and Automation
University of Manchester and the University of Lancaster
25 April 2009
A Screen-sponsored, Postgraduate event
Studies beyond the Screen: a symposium
University of Exeter
Read the conference report.
1 May 2009
The Screen Anniversary Béla Balázs Symposium:
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
Speakers: Erica Carter, Sabine Hake, Hanno Loewy, Andrew Webber
View: poster, photograph of panel and symposium report.
In the photograph, left to right: Andrew Webber, Sabine Hake, Hanno Loewy, Erica Carter.
23 June 2009
Screen event: Edinburgh International Film Festival
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Gerald Peary's entertaining documentary about the history of film criticism was followed by a discussion with Sight and Sound editor Nick James and Screen editor Professor John Caughie.
3-5 July 2009
50th Anniversary Screen Studies Conference: University of Glasgow
10-12 July 2009
Colour and the Moving Image - History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive University of Bristol.
Speakers: Tom Gunning, Laura Mulvey.

Included All the Hues of Nature, a screening event about colour restoration.
15 August - 5 September 2009
50 Years of Screen: A display on Screen in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
View photograph of launch
Editors Annette Kuhn and Sarah Street show off the display case at the Bodleian Exhibition launch.

For More Information

For updates, visit http://www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk/, or contact the Screen office (screen@arts.gla.ac.uk) to add your name to the mailing list for further information.