Screen Research

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Screen Research (SR) specialises in the historical, theoretical, and practical exploration of film cultures, production, and education. It incorporates various subfields such as media industries, screen cultures, media politics, activism, genre, stardom, performance, and screen media practice research within the School of Arts.

SR fosters a dynamic research environment, promoting intellectual growth amongst postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows. It offers seminars, workshops, and conferences, encourages individual and collaborative projects, and cultivates new ideas. It collaborates with many partners within and outside the university, such as the Digital Culture Research Centre and the Creative Economy Unit, while maintaining strong ties with the Watershed and Bristol City of Film.

SR's focus extends across four primary areas.

Screen culture explores independent cinema exhibition and festivals, the contemporary role of repertory cinema and ‘classic’ movies, and issues around programming, curation and screen heritage, especially through our relationships with the Cary Comes Home Festival and the Bristol Radical Film Festival. We are also concerned with social, economic and environmental justice; and engage with genre and film history, stardom, audiences and fandom.

Screen production and distribution has supported work mapping Bristol’s production ecology and the experience of freelance labour in the regional industry, as well the development of the international Radical Film Network – 232 affiliated organisations from 55 countries –  and the UK’s Documentary Film Council, founded in 2023 as a co-operative Charitable Community Benefit Society.

Screen education addresses local skills challenges, working with Bristol City of Film to develop their action plan around Freelance training, EDI and sustainability, and to foster partnerships between industry, local/regional government, and educational institutions. Leveraging our BAFTA albert Education Partnership and the ‘Applied Skills for a Sustainable Screen Industry’ accreditation, we are developing a research focus around green filmmaking, encompassing sustainable production and climate content.

Screen practice and performance works to build the status and understanding of practice-as-research. We support the online journal Screenworks, which publishes peer-reviewed screen media practice research.

You can reach out to the co-chairs of the group at: 

mark.bould@uwe.ac.uk and charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk 

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University of the West of England, Bristol
Bristol

Partner Infrastructures

Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC)

Situated in Bristol's centre, the Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) is a fluid, collaborative, and anti-disciplinary network of researchers spread throughout UWE Bristol. While its primary focus… read more about Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC)

Bristol

Creative Economies Lab

The Creative Economies Lab, a research and delivery wing within UWE Bristol's Digital Cultures Research Centre, focuses on bolstering research and development and innovation (R&DI) within the crea… read more about Creative Economies Lab

Bristol