Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME, Manchester
Andy Willis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME in Manchester where he programmed the touring seasons 'States of Danger and Deceit: the European Political Thriller in the 1970s' (2017/18) and 'CRIME: Hong Kong Style' (2016).
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Andy Willis (Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME in Manchester), curator of the Look Who's Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist strand at this year's Cinema Rediscovered festival, dives into the thinking behind the strand and the political context of this era of Hollywood filmmaking.
The ongoing work of the Fassbinder Foundation has ensured that the memory and legacy of one of West Germany’s greatest filmmakers has been preserved, including his turn to melodrama and television, Professor Andy Willis writes.