Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Geography
Staff Profile
Ms Berry Cochrane
b.cochrane@open.ac.uk
Research Student
Geography
Profile
I am in the second year of my PhD in Human Geography.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Anthropology and Communication Studies (Goldsmith's University)
MA Film Studies (University College London)
MRes Human Geography (The Open University)
Professional affiliations
Postgraduate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with the Institute of British Geographers (IBG)
Member of the BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group
Founding member of research project Cinematic Memory, Consumer Culture and Everyday Life (University College London)
Research Interests
My PhD research looks at cinema-going as practice to explore how this approach might impact on conventional understandings of the politics of cinematic representation.
By engaging with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and conducting go-alongs with women who attend matinees for the over-60s, I explore the spatialised and embodied lived practice of cinema-going to interrogate how meaning might be inter-subjectively and pre-reflexively made in the moment. Following Giuliana Bruno, my analysis considers the co-constitutive relationship between architecture, screen and audience to interrogate the mediated and ongoing process by which film becomes cinema.