Dean Summers
Course Leader for BA (Hons) and MArt Film and Media Production
Summary
My teaching includes the forms and affects of cinematic realism, space, and temporality, as well as undergraduate research supervision on BA (Hons) Animation and BA (Hons) Film and Television Production.
About
I am interested in the intersections of film theory, filmmaking, and film-philosophy. My teaching includes the forms and affects of cinematic realism, space, and temporality, as well as undergraduate research supervision on BA (Hons) Animation and BA (Hons) Film and Television Production.
My particular areas of interest and include Deconstruction, Speculative Realism, film-philosophy, critical and creative pedagogies and the relationship between theory and practice, time in narrative and film, and new developments in methods of film analysis.
Teaching
Sheffield Creative Industries Institute
College of Social Sciences and Arts
- Recent - the impact of the design of educational spaces on student learning
- Current - Radical curriculum design for student-centred learning
Film and Theatre
BA (Hons) Film and Television Production
BA (Hons) Animation
Film Writing, Film Analysis, Narrative and Time, Dissertation, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Project, Thinking Through Film
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- Culture and Creativity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
I am currently undertaking a PhD that explores the limitations of the concept of a film world through the work of Swedish director Roy Andersson.
Postgraduate supervision
PhD investigating film aesthetics and the neuroscience of 'the uncanny'