1 May 2012
Learning Leadership from the Not-for-Profit Sector - When PricewaterhouseCoopers met Barnardo’s
Christine Adshead leads the team whose job is to support the buying and selling of businesses throughout the North West. It’s a male-dominated w...
18 Apr 2012
Within the Sound of Silence - The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
“Ben, what are you doing?” his father asks from the side of the pool, the first line of dialogue for nearly five minutes, to which Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) leans up from his...
21 Feb 2012
Duncan Shears of OakShed Media, winner of the university's 2010 Business Start Up Scheme, has recently secured a 12-month, £25,000 contract. He will be working for an agency on the Isle of Wight producing rich online media specifically in the touris...
9 Feb 2012
Tender Noir - Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
In his justly maligned yet influential 'Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962', Andrew Sarris praised American cinema for the fact that "a director is forced to express his person...
18 Jan 2012
We offer our alumni £375* off tuition fees if you enrol on a Masters or Research Degree at the University of Winchester.
If you need help choosing a course, or need any advice on fees, accommodation or just wish to chat with a lecturer then w...
12 Jan 2012
An Unsettling World - Caché/Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005)
This may not be the most uplifting image, the most iconic or important image in popular culture, but it is impossible to forget for th...
9 Dec 2011
JISC-RSC has just finished providing a webinar upon the question of whether we should be encouraging the use of mobile devices in the classroom. American Studies at the University of Winchester have been doing this, to positive feedback, and this wa...
1 Dec 2011
Join Us! – Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990)
The above still from Troll 2 is for me an indelible image representing the true magic of cinema. Cinema magic should not be special effects, or well written scenes, or great performances. The tr...
7 Nov 2011
‘I got the Bullets’ - Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
James Dean, the first American teenager and enduring movie icon. What makes this particular image of the star so iconic?
The image, from Rebel Without a Cause, was release...
31 Oct 2011
Big changes are ongoing within the educational sector, change that is in many ways being driven by technology. We may call for the technology to be subservient to the pedagogy, but the tools are allowing us to engage with unforeseen possibilities....