ProDoc SWISS CINEMA NETWORK «Discourses and Practices of Cinema and the Audiovisual»
The ProDoc doctoral program «Discourses and Practices of Cinema and the Audiovisual» was conceived by the three universities of the SWISS CINEMA NETWORK (University of Zurich, University of Lausanne, and Università della Svizzera italiana) and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
The ProDoc consisted of a study program and four research modules: «Diffusion: the Transnational Circulation of Cinematic Images and Imagery,» «Cinema and the Public Sphere,» «Epistemology of the Audiovisual,» and «Reception.» Over the course of three years, the program also offered candidates numerous opportunities to acquaint themselves with the academic world of film and media studies (through invitation of experts, visits to other universities, exchange with peers, etc.).
Research modules at the Department of Film Studies:
Diffusion: the Transnational Circulation of Cinematic Images and Imagery; Funded by the SNSF from 2009 to 2013
Project leader/responsible applicant: Prof. Margrit Tröhler; co-applicants: Prof. Barbara Flückiger (UZH), Prof. Giuseppe Richeri (USI), Prof. Jörg Schweinitz (UZH)
Doctoral candidates and research projects:
- Dr. Vincenzo de Masi: «Made in China.» The Chinese audio-visual animation. History, styles and models of diffusion in China (supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Richeri, USI, completed)
- Katharina Klung, M.A., doctoral candidate: «Migration in the Transcultural (Filmic) Space: Moving Images of Adolescence» (supervised by Prof. Barbara Flückiger, UZH)
- Geesa Tuch, M.A., doctoral candidate:«Constructing War Time Experience: Transnational Circulation of Narrative and Visual Stereotypes in European Feature Film Between 1943 and 1949» (supervised by Prof. Jörg Schweinitz, UZH)
Cinema and the Public Sphere: Studies of Historic Film Reception;
Funded by the SNSF from 2010 to 2014
Project leader/responsible applicant: Prof. Margrit Tröhler; co-applicant: Prof. Jörg Schweinitz (UZH)
Doctoral candidates and research projects:
- Adrian Gerber, lic. phil., doctoral candidate: «Cinema, War and Switzerland: Public Debates in and about Cinema During World War I» (supervised by Prof. Margrit Tröhler, UZH)
- Dr. des. Seraina Rohrer, associated scholar: «Mexican Low Budget Films in their Transnational Context» (supervised by Prof. Margrit Tröhler, UZH, completed in fall 2012)
- Matthias Uhlmann, lic. phil., doctoral candidate: «Film Censorship in the Canton of Zurich since 1945» (supervised by Prof. Jörg Schweinitz, UZH)
To continue the cooperation with the University of Lausanne, the SUC doctoral program Film, Photography, and Other Visual Media was launched in 2013.
