Film can be a useful way of studying both external and internal representations of Cornwall. Bob Keys will introduce us to the work of the Documentary Film Movement in relation to Cornwall during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Participants will be introduced to old film on media platforms and shown how to do their own commentaries.

Bob Keys is an Associate of the Institute of Cornish Studies and Film & Folklore Director of Cornish Story. In recent decades he has been applying his earlier Russian research on those topics to the Cornish experience. He lives in his native South East Cornwall and was formerly Head of History at the University College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth.

Find out more about the Cornish Study Days here.

The cost of each session is £6. For further details and to register for the course at Rescorla please email G.H.Tregidga@exeter.ac.uk