Postgraduate Research Poster Showcase

Awards 2021

Every year, BAFTSS recognises excellence in published and practice work by members of the association. Full details of previous winners in all categories are available from the dropdown menu on this page

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The 2021 awards are for work published in the period between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020, and are decided by members of the BAFTSS executive committee.

The shortlists for each category are as follows (listed alphabetically). The winners will be announced during the BAFTSS conference in April 2021.

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There are two categories of awards: the BAFTSS Practice Research Awards and the BAFTSS Publication Awards.

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PRACTICE RESEARCH AWARDS

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Audiovisual Practice-Research (e.g. original film/TV/video/moving image/screen media practice) 

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• M+M Hawkins (London South Bank University), Husband and Wife

• Adam Laity (University of the West of England), A Short Film About Ice: Cinematographic Approaches Towards the Eco-sublime Landscape – a Practice-Led Enquiry

• Roz Mortimer (University for the Creative Arts, PhD candidate at University of Westminster), The Deathless Woman

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Innovation Award: (e.g. research applications/infrastructure, film and television studies research-related mobile applications, online databases, websites and archives, new and emerging media)

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• Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco (University of Essex) and Fabrizio Galeazzi, StoryLab (Anglia Ruskin University), Italia Terremotata

• Beth Johnson (Leeds), Industry Voices

• Nico Meissner (Griffith University), Paths Untold: Sketches of South-East Asian Filmmaking Careers

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Videographic Film Criticism: (e.g. online digital video essays/scholarly remixes/audio-visual film criticism)

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• Cormac Donnelly (Liverpool John Moores), Pan Scan Venkman

• Ian Garwood (Glasgow), Indy Vinyl: Records in American Independent Cinema - 1987-2018

• Judith Rifeser (Goldsmiths), A caressing dialogical encounter

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PUBLICATION AWARDS

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Best Monograph:

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• Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California), Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space (Duke University Press)

• Nick Jones (York), Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture (Columbia University Press)

• Mario Slugan (Queen Mary, University of London), Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical Approach to Film History (Bloomsbury)

• Tom Whittaker (Warwick), The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation (Manchester)

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Best Edited Collection:

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• Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent) and Lies Van de Vijver (Ghent), Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History (Palgrave)

• Malcolm Cook (Southampton) and Kirsten Moana, Animation and Advertising (Palgrave)

• Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya) and Alastair Phillips (Warwick), The Japanese Cinema Book (BFI/Bloomsbury)

• Alison Peirse (Leeds), Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre (Rutgers)

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Best Doctoral Student Article or Chapter:

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• MaoHui Deng (Manchester), ‘Singapore as non-place: National cinema through the lens of temporal heterogeneity’, Asian Cinema, 31 (1), pp. 37-53.

• Hannah Paveck (Kings College, London), ‘Taciturn Masculinities: Radical Quiet and Sounding Linguistic Difference in Valeska Grisebach’s Western’, Film-Philosophy, 24 (1).

• Steven Roberts (Bristol), ‘Widescreen Pyrotechnics: Shot Composition and Staging the Cold War Films of Joseph Losey and Sidney J. Furie’, in Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered, ed. by Duncan Petrie, Melanie Williams and Laura Mayne (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), pp. 165-178. 

• James Slattery (Manchester), ‘A Matter of Life and Death: Cinematic Necropolitics in “Arrival”’, Free Associations, 79.  

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Best Journal Article:

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• Grazia Ingravalle (Brunel), ‘Allegories of the past: Nitrate film’s aura in postindustrial Rochester, NY’, Screen, 60 (3), pp. 371-87.

• Melanie Selfe (Glasgow), ‘“Use The Songs to Sell Your SHOW!”: Sam Goldwyn, The Eddie Cantor Musicals and the development of product-centred marketability’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40 (4), pp. 649-82

• Sarah Thomas (Liverpool), ‘The Star in VR’, Celebrity Studies, 10 (4), pp. 453-68

• Helen Wheatley (Warwick), ‘Haunted Television: Trauma and the Specter in the Archive’, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 59 (3), pp. 69-80.  

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