Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre

The Significance of the Centre

Members of the CATH Centre have played a prominent role in the development of media history in the UK, and recently hosted an international conference, ‘Continental Connections: British cinema and television in their European Contexts’.

The papers have been collected for a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (EUP) in 2010. Members continue to deliver invited and keynote papers at international conferences: most recently in France, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, the USA – and even Wales.

They also occupy a range of influential positions:

• Professor Robert Murphy is editor of the BFI’s British Cinema Book (now in its third edition) and Directors in British and Irish Cinema (2006)
• Professor Barry Jordan is lead editor UK for Studies in Hispanic Cinemas.
• Dr. Helen Wood is Associate Editor, European Journal of Cultural Studies.
• Professor Tim O’Sullivan is a member of the M.C.S.S.A executive.
• Professor Steve Chibnall is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and, with Dr. Ian Hunter, edits the successful Routledge British Popular Cinema book series.
  

Members have also had considerable success recently in attracting funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Four professors (Steve Chibnall, Barry Jordan, Robert Murphy and Tim O’Sullivan) have won Study Leave awards in the last few years, while Dr. Helen Wood is part of a successful joint bid with the University of Warwick for an AHRC Large Grant to study the history of women’s television.

In addition, Centre staff currently hold grant awards from the British Academy, EM Media’s Digital Development fund, and from a number of other grant-awarding bodies.

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