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I studied for my MA in History of Film & Visual Media at Birkbeck
College, University of London, between 2002/3 and 2004/5. Birkbeck is unusual in
that it caters mostly to part-time adult students, with evening lectures
and tutorials. It was an excellent course, taught by Ian Christie, Laura Mulvey, Mike Allen and Amy
Sargeant. I worked hard, and got a
Distinction.
This site includes my best pieces of work, both from the
second year. First is an essay about the performance of femininity in the
melodramas of Douglas Sirk, and the significance
of drag and female impersonation in films and performances which parody or
pay homage to Sirk, from Andy Warhol and Jack
Smith through to the Kuchar Brothers and John
Waters to Pedro Almodovar and Todd Haynes.
Second, a historiographic dissertation on film exhibition in the UK during
the early sound period of the late 1920s, concentrating on a cheap
intermediate technology which briefly flourished as an alternative to
expensive synchronised sound equipment installation - the electrical
reproducer - essentially a dual deck electrically amplified record player
similar to a modern DJ console.
I’m proud of these works, and since they both explore
new areas, with little published material available, online or elsewhere,
I’ve made them available here. If you’ve found them through an
esoteric Google, congratulations.
Simon Murphy, February 2006
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