Cinema and Television History Research Institute project information

CATHI researchers continue to attract significant UKRI funding to support groundbreaking research via UK and international collaborations. Here are some examples of our current and recent work:

‘Hollywood and the Baby Boom’, 2012-2013 (PI: James Russell). Funding: Leverhulme Trust.

‘ Women’s Work, Working Women: A Longitudinal Study of Women Working in the Film and Television Industries (1933-1989)’, 2014-2017 (Co-I: Vicky Ball). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. A collaborative partnership between Newcastle University and De Montfort University.

‘British Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound (1927-1933)’, 2014-2018 (PI: Laraine Porter). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. A collaborative partnership between the University of Stirling and De Montfort University.

‘Dancing, Drawing, and Dreaming: Presenting Fifty Years of British Music Video innovation on the global stage’, 2017-18 (Co-I: Justin Smith). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. This Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement project was a collaboration between the University of West London and De Montfort University.

‘Multilingual Euro-Bollywood: an “Imaginative language” workshop’, 2018-19 (PI: Monia Acciari). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. Part of Creative Multilingualism - a research programme led by the University of Oxford and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Open World Research Initiative.

‘The silver screen and the town: Memories of cinema-going, community and the revival of the local cinema’, 2019-2020 (PI: Stuart Hanson). Funding: British Academy. A collaborative partnership between the University of Leicester and De Montfort University.

'European Cinema Audiences', 2018-2021 (Co-I: Pier Ercole). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. A collaborative project between Oxford Brookes University, Ghent University, and De Montfort University.

'Transforming Middlemarch', 2022-23 (PI: Justin Smith). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. A partnership between DMU and the British Library to create a genetic edition of Andrew Davies' 1994 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel.

'Creative Archives: Producing, Preserving and Showcasing Transnational India Film Heritage', 2022 (PI: Monia Acciari). Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council. https://www.artsteps.com/view/6399e547ebf04d44652047de