Steve Chibnall

Department of Media, Film and Journalism

Professor of British Cinema

Contact Details:
Telephone: 0116 250 6276
Email: schib@dmu.ac.uk

Steve Chibnall is Professor of British Cinema, Director of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre, and Senior Tutor for research students in Film and Media.

He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television, and co-editor of Routledge’s British Popular Cinema series.  Recently, he organised the Continental Connections Conference at DMU in July 2007.

Since his first book, ‘Law-and-Order News’ in 1977 (Tavistock, reprinted Routledge, 2004), Steve has published widely on cultural history and the representation of crime in the media. For the past twelve years he has specialised in British film and, in addition to numerous articles in American, Swedish and UK journals, he has published British Crime Cinema (Routledge, 1999), British Horror Cinema (Routledge, 2001), Get Carter (I.B. Tauris 2003), Brighton Rock (I.B. Tauris, 2004), J. Lee Thompson (Manchester University Press, 2000), and Making Mischief: The Cult Films of Peter Walker (FAB Press, 1998). Steve received a Research Leave award from the AHRB to complete the first book-length study of low-budget British film-making in the 1930s, Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British B Film, which was published by the British Film Institute in 2007, with an accompanying film season at the BFI South Bank. His work on the history of the second feature has now been completed with the publication of The British ‘B’ Film (BFI/Palgrave, 2009), co-authored with Professor Brian McFarlane

Steve recently co-edited a special edition of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (on space and place) and will co-edit another in 2010. In 2002, he helped organise a major exhibition on Brighton's image on screen, and, in 2006, he edited Sim Branaghan’s British Film Posters for the BFI. This work drew on Steve’s archive of British cinema memorabilia, which is one of the most significant that is privately owned. He now also frequently acts as an advisor and interviewee for BBC radio and television cultural history documentaries.  He has successfully supervised doctoral research on British film and welcomes further proposals in this area of study.

Research and Publications