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Shelley Cobb
Head of Department
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I am a feminist film and media studies scholar with particular interests in women filmmakers, equality and diversity in the film and television industries, celebrity culture, adaptation, and reception discourses.
Huw Jones
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I'm interested in British and European films which travel across borders: what themes, stories, and stars these films focus on, who watches them and why, and how they're produced, funded and distributed.
Kevin Donnelly
Professor of Film & Film Music
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I am primarily a theorist and historian of film music and film sound, but with a strong interdisciplinary interest in aesthetics and theory, as well as culture beyond film.

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