About the Centre:
The Centre for Screen Cultures is dedicated to exploring the many screens that are part of our world: television, computers, tablets and smartphones, videogames, and VR – in the present day and across history. These media shape our social, cultural, artistic and political understanding through both collaborations and confrontations. The work they do is not limited to the audiovisual depictions onscreen. A study of screen cultures also attends to what happens offscreen from idea to audience – the spaces of production, distribution, and exhibition. It’s what happens in between those spaces and with the audiences after the encounter. The Centre invites interdisciplinary exploration and participation from everyone: academics, practitioners, and the public.
For the next three years, the theme is Archives and Cultural Heritage.
Co-Directors: Glyn Davis and Tom Rice.
About the Playlist Initiative:
Developed in the early stages of lockdown, the CSC Playlist Initiative sought to navigate the abundance of media materials available on the internet, especially with the plethora of digital archives, proliferating streaming platforms, and film festivals migrating online. In the process, it became an opportunity to give visibility to multiple perspectives and voices as media scholars, programmers, and makers provided their suggestions. An archive of the now, this initiative offers a resource for teaching and research and a disruption of the often totalising and exclusionary tendencies of so many lists.
Curator: Leshu Torchin
Advisory Board:
The Centre for Screen Cultures has an advisory board comprising a network of international scholars and practitioners:
- Professor Richard Dyer (Honorary Research Fellow, University of St Andrews)
- Dr Elena Gorfinkel (Film Studies, Kings College London)
- Professor Mette Hjort (Film, Media and Journalism, University of Lincoln)
- Professor Amy Holdsworth (Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow)
- Professor May Adadol Ingawanij (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster)
- Professor Priya Jaikumar (Cinematic Arts, USC)
- Dr Jeffrey Murer (International Relations, University of St Andrews)
- Dr Clive Nwonka (Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL)
- Dr Jennifer O’Meara (Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin)
- Dr Dora Osborne (German, University of St Andrews)
- Professor Pooja Rangan (English, Film & Media Studies, Amherst College)
- Dr Anindya Raychaudhari (English, University of St Andrews)
- Professor Girish Shambu (Canisius College / Film Quarterly)
- Dr Catherine Spencer (Art History, University of St Andrews)
- Professor Jia Tan (Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Peter Taylor (Director, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival)
- Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice (Theater, Film & Television, UCLA)
- Ania Trzebiatowska (Director, SANDS: The International Film Festival of St Andrews)