Film and Television Studies Research Group, ACE, UWE

The Film and Television Studies Research Group (FTSRG) includes both staff and postgraduate students researching across a range of areas, including: film genre (including such specific genres as biopics, crime, musicals, romantic comedy, science fiction); film and music; gender, sexuality and cinema; the role of the producer; British cinema; radical British filmmaking.

Film Studies at UWE has a vibrant research culture, with the majority of our staff being entered in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008, and two thirds of their outputs being rated as of national or international significance.

Editorial boards and forums Members of the group edit or serve on the editorial boards of the following journals:

We provide a regular forum in which to share individual work-in-progress and to develop collaborative projects.

Events The group organises regular research events, including conferences and symposia on Imamura Shohei, Charlie Kaufman, the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, radical British screen media, contemporary animation research and practice, filmic representations of ageing, media representations of Chávez’s Venezuela, and the afterlife of the film song.

Recent guest speakers include Catherine Constable, Kay Dickinson, Laura U Marks, Diane Negra, Steve Shaviro, Marquard Smith, Rod Stoneman, Sarah Street, Mike Wayne and filmmakers such as Mozambican Gabriel Mondlane, Algerian Yamina Bachir Chouikh and Iranian exile Mania Akbari. We have awarded honorary doctorates to Mike Hodges and Ken Loach.

Members of the group organise the Bristol Radical Film Festival, and we support an array of public events, including the Bristol Bad Film Club, Bristol Silents and Compass International Film Festival.

Staff members If you would like to find out more about the group or establish connections with us, please e-mail [email protected].