Cinema and Television History Research Institute (CATHI) part of De Montfort University’s Leicester Media School.
The establishment of a Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre is the natural extension of a momentum that has been building over the last decade
British media constitutes the core activity of the CATH Research Centre, it also embraces the wealth of high quality research that is being done on, for example, European cinema and Hollywood history. The Centre's researchers cover the spec
19/12/2021
Let’s hear it for our very own Dr Stephen Glynn!
Book Review: The Beatles and Film: From Youth Culture to Counterculture by Stephen Glynn In The Beatles and Film: From Youth Culture to Counterculture, Stephen Glynn draws on the Beatles’ five films released between 1964 and 1970 to explore their journey from being at the heart o…
07/11/2021
Its our annual archives open day on Wednesday afternoon.
The event will take place on MS Teams.
Sadly our number of speakers is a little reduced but there's still plenty of opportunity for archive chat and learning.
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CATHI Archives Open Day (online event): Access and Absence in the Archives Online archives research event
25/08/2021
CATHI Archives Open Day (online event): Access and Absence in the Archives Online archives research event
24/07/2021
Our 2021 Archives open day will be another online affair. Free but places must be booked.
This year's focus is on access and absence.
ECRs from any institution or discipline welcome, though our focus will be film history.
CATHI Archives Open Day (online event): Access and Absence in the Archives Online archives research event
11/06/2021
The BFI have done a rather nice listicle from a selection of the best of British silent films, according to Bryony Dixon, Lawrence Napper, Neil Brand, Pam Hutchinson and CATHIs own Laraine Porter!
10 great British silent films As the landmark British silent film Piccadilly lands on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back to the roaring 20s and beyond in search of some of the UK’s finest silent feature films.
12/01/2021
We are proud to announce Professor Claire Monk's new article on EMI Films and the ‘pre-heritage’ period film during the long 1970s for the Journal of British Cinema and Television’s EMI Films special issue is out now. 10,000 words, illustrated in dazzling full colour, featuring ballet-dancing mice, David Essex, and much more:
EMI and the ‘Pre-heritage’ Period Film | Journal of British Cinema and Television First coined in the UK in the early 1990s as a new label for an ostensibly new, post-1979 kind and cycle of period cinema, the ‘heritage film’ is now firmly established as a widely used term and ca...
18/11/2020
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/live-stream/postgraduate.aspx
Join a live stream and learn more about postgraduate study at DMU Experience the level of study you might expect as a university student - these are questions and ideas that you'll get to engage with during your time at university. Our live streams feature staff and students and are designed to fill the gap of the Open Days and Taster Days you would have attended.
29/10/2020
CATHI PhD opportunity #4/4 for 2021: 'Leicester's Phoenix: regional theatre, cinema, arts, and education from 1960 to the present day' - supervisor: Laraine Porter [email protected] - Get in touch to find out more...!
29/10/2020
CATHI PhD opportunity #3/4 for 2021: ''Palace Revolution: the ups and downs of British Independent Cinema in the 1980s and 90s'' (using the Palace Pictures/Scala Productions archive) - supervisor: Prof. Steve Chibnall [email protected] - Get in touch to find out more...!
29/10/2020
CATHI PhD opportunity #2/4 for 2021: ''Marketing Bollywood and regional Indian cinemas in the UK: promotional materials from the Cinema Museum's Indian Cinemas Collection' – supervisor: Dr. Monia Acciari [email protected] - Get in touch to find out more...!
29/10/2020
CATHI PhD opportunity #1/4 for 2021: 'Dressing to Skill: Women in British Television Costume Departments' (in partnership with the British Entertainment History Project https://historyproject.org.uk/ ) - supervisor: Dr. Vicky Ball [email protected] Get in touch to find out more...!