Research areas

Academics develop ideas and share knowledge across themed areas representing established departmental research strengths:

• Archives: explores the past of film and other media forms through their material, industrial and discursive traces, working with major national and international archives.
• Classic Hollywood Aesthetics: evaluates achievements of studio-era Hollywood, engaging with key and neglected works of criticism in this area.
• Genre: develops new ways of understanding a range of television and film forms such as comedy, the Western and drama.
• Intermediality: examines medium specificity by investigating how media forms relate to and shape each other.
• Transnational Cinemas: explores how film's aesthetic, technological and cultural forms are shaped by cross-cultural understanding and globalisation.

Projects

Here is a selection of current and recent funded projects led by our academics:

• Association of the Unknown Shore PI: Dr Angela Piccini 
• The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema PI: Professor Sarah Street
• STUDIOTEC: Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-36 PI: Professor Sarah Street
• The Idea of Animation PI: Dr Kristian Moen
• Know Your Bristol on the Move

Associated centre

Screen Research

Co-ordinators: Dr Jacqueline Maingard (Film and Television) and Professor Catherine O'Rawe (Italian).

Collaborations and activities

We regularly disseminate our research at national and international conferences, and through public talks, media engagement and co-produced research with communities.

In developing, presenting and applying our research, we draw on links with local partners, including Bristol Silents, Bristol Vision Institute and Watershed Media Centre, as well as national and international bodies such as the BBC, British Film Institute and Worldwide Universities Network. We also contribute to various international film and media festivals.