Welcome to Screen Research@Bristol
Screen Research @ Bristol is an interdisciplinary group working in screen studies, a broad field that incorporates film, television and digital media technologies. The theme explores screen research in its broadest sense, incorporating comparative studies of historical periods and contexts; a theoretical understanding of screen media; and methodologies including the analysis of text-based and archive material and practice-based work.
The research theme comprises colleagues from across the University, including the Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology; Classics and Ancient History; Drama: Theatre, Film, Television; French; Geographical Sciences; Historical Studies; History of Art; Italian; Music; Politics; Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies; and Russian.
Screen Research @ Bristol provides a forum for the development of research into key areas which are already established as individual and group themes of research expertise. These include:
- national/trans-national cinemas
- film stars and their reception
- theatre, literature, television and cinema
- classical antiquity and cinema
- cinema, biography and autobiography
- colour film aesthetics and technologies
- film and colonialism
- gender and sexuality
- audiences and reception
- the impact of digital technologies
- adaptation
- historical studies/methodologies
- screen media and music
- online analysis and annotation tools for screenworks (JISC-funded STARS tool)
- place, space and small screenworks
- practice-as-research.
Activities include workshops funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies on the theme of ‘Screen Forms and their Reception: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’. Events have included:
- The Impact of Eisenstein
- A Close-Up on Close-Ups
- Screen Conversations – World Cinema: in theory; on screen
- Audiences and Reception· Screen Acting
- Collaborations with the ‘Word Unbecoming Flesh’ project, supported by BIRTHA· Participation in WUN virtual seminar series