Professor Lucy Mazdon collaborates with Eastleigh Council on a public art project to retell the story of a 19th century railway disaster
Professor Lucy Mazdon recently collaborated on the Regal Walk public art project in tandem with Eastleigh Council / The Point Eastleigh. The project drew on resources at Eastleigh museum to find accounts of a local nineteenth century railway disaster.
Mazdon and Eastleigh Public Arts Officer Joanne Calcutt devised a series of silent film style inter-titles retelling this story which have been carved onto paving slabs and placed in Regal Walk in Eastleigh town centre. A competition was held among local writing groups to find the wording for the final slab and this was won by Dorothy Collard. The project is linked a much larger research project currently being planned by Professor Mazdon and Film colleague Dr Michael Williams.
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Professor Lucy Mazdon
Professor Lucy Mazdon is Professor in Film at the University of Southampton.
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Professor Michael Williams
Professor Michael Williams is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Southampton. Michael’s research focuses on film stardom as well as the representation of the past, and particularly that of ancient Greece and Rome. He has a particular interest in the popular reception of stars since the silent era, as well as uses of the past in the constructions of gender and sexuality.
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