Projects

We host a series of major research projects, funded by organisations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Please see below for more information on a selection of major research projects in English Literature currently taking place or recently completed.

section of visit Palestine poster — Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Investigating how Palestine has been imagined in the public sphere in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

magnified dna strand — Double Helix history

This project thinks about the popular understanding of the work of DNA and, more particularly, how we might understand, represent, and visualise it.

Communist march in Ukraine — Wars of Position

This AHRC funded project takes a new look at Communism in the West.

Modern cemetery with Irish flag — My Country, A Journey

A research based drama on the migrant experience in Britain.

Lady Emmeline Courtenay, c. 1375 — Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

This project investigated the complex relationships between vocabulary, artefact and image.

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Once Upon a Time: Beirut (Kan Ya Makan Beirut)

Catalogue Code

FILM000077

Synopsis

Distraught over their city’s recent destruction during the Lebanese Civil War, Yasmine and Leila embark on a journey in search of Beirut’s past glory. They carry with them two rare, unreleased film prints which help to land them a meeting with the reclusive and eccentric film connoisseur, Monsieur Farouk.
Through the magic of cinema, the three travel back in time on a mythical, history-laden tour of the city. Here, Once Upon a Time: Beirut shines as the travellers visit the Beirut of the French-directed films of the 1930s. Next they explore the Beirut of the 1960s as seen through the lenses of Arab filmmakers and finally they visit the Beirut of the large-scale American studio efforts of the 1970s.

Year of Release

1994

Running Time

101 mins

Distributor

Arab Film Distribution

EIDR

Genre

Drama

Languages

Arabic English,

Country of Origin

Lebanon

Permalink

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000077

Notes

People with a connection to this film

Publications related to this film

Gönül Dönmez-Colin (2007) Lina Khatib (2008) Mark R. Westmoreland (2009) Rebecca Hillauer Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard (2010)

Copies in the collection

DVD ARA/FIL0101 Subtitles: English

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Projects

Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Double Helix history

Wars of Position

My Country, A Journey

Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

Discover more

Once Upon a Time: Beirut (Kan Ya Makan Beirut)

People with a connection to this film

Publications related to this film

Copies in the collection

Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database