Three members of the
Department of Film Studies have been placed on the shortlist for the inaugural
annual BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) awards for scholarship. Dr David Martin-Jones has
qualified for the Best Academic Book published in 2011 for Deleuze and World Cinemas; Dr Joshua Yumibe has qualified for the Best Essay published
in 2011 with his essay 'Visual Diplomacy: Projections of Power from the Field
in Ethiopia'; and John Trafton, PhD student, has been shortlisted for his
essay, 'Things That Almost Killed Me: Apocalypse Now, The
Hurt Locker, and the Influence of 19th Century Spectacle Art' in the
Student Writing Award category. The University of St Andrews is is the
only unit shortlisted in more than one category for these prestigious awards,
and we have placed finalists in all three categories of competition.
There were a large number of entries in each of these categories, and our
success in this competition is a powerful endorsement from the increasingly
important BAFTSS, the professional society of Film and Media Studies programmes
in the UK.
