Dr Laura Canning
Course Leader, BA(Hons) Film
Laura is a filmmaker and academic where she is Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Film, running final year practice modules as well as teaching into context and practice modules across the degree. She also serves as Production Lead for Sound/Image Cinema Lab, SoFT's research and production hub which engages in short and feature film development and production with internal and external production partners.
Laura is committed to telling people-centred stories that help us see others and ourselves, and to being part of a thriving Cornish screen culture. She has executive produced and produced a range of short-form work with Sound/Image Cinema Lab, Screen Cornwall and BFI Network. Most recently she has written and directed Bleujyowa (2023) for Screen Cornwall (FylmK) and Second Unit directed for feature The Severed Sun (Dean Puckett, 2024). She has also worked as a script editor.
When she's not making or teaching film, Laura spends as much time as she can in the sea, and is a foster carer for a local dog rescue.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Doctorate | Dublin City University |
| 2007 | MA | Dublin City University |
| 1995 | BA | Dublin City University |
Research Interests
Research interests and expertise
Laura'a research interests include: production studies, media industry studies, genre theory and generic transitions, Irishness in international culture, landscape and materialism, creativity and embodiment.
She is interested in supervising doctoral projects in any of these areas, and has supervised and examined PhDs in experimental film and landscape, and sound art and landscape.
Research Topics
- Media industry studies
- production studies
- Gender and representation
- national and transnational cinema
- Genre
- Experimental Documentary
- Irish film and television
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
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Canning, Laura
(2020), European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, ISBN: 978-3-030-33436-9, (Submitted), Item availability may be restricted.
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Canning, Laura
(2020), Irish Production Cultures and Women Producers: Nicky Gogan, In: Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers, Cork University Press, Cork, Republic of Ireland, ISBN: 9781782053736 -
Canning, Laura
(2018), The "Smart" Teen Film: Identity Crisis, Nostalgia and the Teenage Viewpoint, In: Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, pp. 121-133, ISBN: 978-3-319-90133-6
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Canning, Laura
(2018), Irish Production Culture and Women Producers: Nicky Gogan, In: Trailblazing Women On and Off Screen International Conference, June 18-20 2018, Greenwich, London, (Unpublished) -
Canning, Laura and Sweeney, Sheamus
(2015), Not Your Feminist Daddy, In: Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism, June 18-20 2015, Cornwall, (Unpublished), Item availability may be restricted.
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Canning, Laura
(2022), As Well As/Instead Of Orpheus: Making, Teaching and Living in Grief, In: Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, Dark Economies Scholarly Association, Falmouth, Cornwall, pp. 348-363, ISSN: 2397-8791
Research Students
Number of research students supervised to completion
1Research degrees examined
I have acted as internal examiner for one PhD candidate at Falmouth University.
Teaching
Areas of teaching
- Film theory and history
- Media Industry Studies
- Genre
- National cinema
- Gender and Production
Courses taught
- FIL104 Industrial Contexts
- FIL302 Dissertation
Policy engagement within Cornwall
Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwall
- Member of the BFI Places Project Board (Southwest)
