Robin Wood (23/02/1931-18/12/2009)

It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the death of Professor Robin Wood. Professor Wood was an internationally recognised pioneer in the academic study of cinema and a key figure in the development of film studies at the University of Warwick. He taught an undergraduate film studies module at Warwick in 1973/74 - the first such module to be  offered at a British university - and set up a Master's degree in Film Studies here in 1974/75. Professor Wood joined the University of York, Toronto in 1977, but the success of his courses at Warwick played a major part in the university's decision to begin establishing a permanent film studies department in 1978.

About the Department

• Founded in 1978, the Department of Film and Television Studies is one of the oldest and most respected in this country.
• The first completely free-standing department of film and television in the UK, the department’s practical and intellectual resources are entirely devoted to the study of film and television.
• The only film and television department to have 35mm, 16mm and DVD projection facilities fitted as standard in all teaching rooms.
• Outstanding results in research (we have been ranked as the top Film and Television Studies department in the UK by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, with a GPA of 3.5), and also teaching (23 out of 24 in the last Teaching Quality Assessment exercise).
• Often ranked as the top Film and Television Studies department in newspaper league tables, the University of Warwick is also regularly placed amongst the top ten universities in the UK.

We are now located in a new £3.5 million, purpose-built study centre at the rear of Millburn House, on the Central Campus. See the travel pages on getting to the University.

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Enquiries

For information about the department, contact:

Ms Tracey McVey (Secretary)

Film and Television Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7HS, UK
Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 3511
Fax:+44 (0)24 7652 4757
T.A.McVey@warwick.ac.uk

February 2010: 'Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking CinemaScope': The Spectacle of Technology in Screen Media - A one-day interdisciplinary conference, Saturday 27th February 2010. Keynote Speakers: Alison Griffiths (CUNY) William Boddy (CUNY) Helen Wheatley: (University of Warwick).To view the full programme or to register, please click here.

June 2009: We have been named as the best department in the UK for studying film and television in the Good University Guides for 2010 published by The Times and The Guardian. (Click here for the former and here for the latter.)

December 2008: We are the top-rated Film and Television Studies department in the country for quality of research, as judged by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with a GPA of 3.5. We were also one of only 7 departments across all disciplines and universities in the UK to have the majority of our research activity classed as 4* (i.e. 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour') by the RAE panel. Further information can be found here.  The complete set of RAE data is available here.