Cinema and Television History Group (CATH)

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The Cinema and Television History Group (CATH) researches archival screen heritage at De Montfort University. It specialises in evidence-based methods and oral history approaches, used to inform interdisciplinary research and international collaborations funded by the UK research councils.

It holds collections including the Hammer Script Archive, the Cinema Museum's Indian Cinemas Archive at De Montfort, the Palace Pictures and Scala Productions papers and the Peter Whitehead Archive. Further archives, among them the Sir Norman Wisdom collection and the Michael and Tony Klinger papers, are held separately in the university's Special Collections. Members co-host the annual UK Asian Film Festival and the British Film Institute British Silent Film Festival, and promote practice-based research through DocHub@DMU.

Current work includes a twelve-month follow-on funding project on adapting Jane Austen for educational and public engagement, drawing on screenwriter and producer papers held in the university's Special Collections and carried out with the Educational Recording Agency and Jane Austen's House. The group reports that in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 its screen studies submission of 11.65 full-time equivalent staff achieved an estimated grade point average of 3.58 within the university's unit of assessment 33, which was ranked eighth nationally for research power and received the highest rating for research environment. It sits within the university's Institute of Arts, Design and Performance.

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De Montfort University
Leicester

De Montfort University
Leicester