About Us
The Centre for Screen Studies was created in 1998 to foster and facilitate research in screen-related areas, and to serve as a nucleus for developing postgraduate studies as well as attracting visiting scholars and speakers. The Centre honours the tradition of Screen Studies but is also committed to new possibilities for the discipline including cross-disciplinary and practice-related projects.
Screen Studies at Manchester engages with
- The intersection between industry, audiences and texts
- Screen aesthetics and theory including film, television and new media
- Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to the study of screen
- National and transnational identities and performances
- Sound and music and its relationship with the image
- Historical approaches to the study of screen and using archival sources
- Ethnographic film and visual anthropology
- Fiction and projective improvisation in ethnographic filmmaking
- The authentic, subjective and reflexive in documentary filmmaking
The Centre consists of six lecturers and one professor emeritus based in Drama:
Rajinder Dudrah (appointed 2002, Director of Centre for Screen Studies) – specialising in Bollywood cinema, Black British representation, film aesthetics and cultural theory, popular music, diasporic and transnational media, cultural studies, and qualitative research methods.
David Butler (appointed 2003) – specialising in film music, film noir, the fantastic in film and practice-based work exploring the relationship between sound, image and the senses
Victoria Lowe (appointed 2006) – specialising in 20th Century British stage and screen history, the actor's voice in film, film aesthetics and the crossover between stage and screen
Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic (appointed 2008) - specialising in Canadian and Quebec contemporary film, East European cinema, multi-media performance practices and theory, crossovers between stage and screen practices, and performance art.
Johannes Sjöberg (appointed 2008) – specialising in screen practice as research; subjectivity, authenticity and drama in documentary films; ethnofiction, ethnographic film and visual anthropology; crossovers between applied theatre and participatory video
Felicia Chan (appointed 2008) – specialising in cross-cultural, transnational and ‘world’ cinemas, Singapore and Malaysian cinemas, film festival cultures, culture and technology, theories of intertextuality, diaspora and identity politics, and theories of modernism and modernity in film, literature and culture.
David Mayer (Professor Emeritus) – specialising in Nineteenth Century theatre and links between the theatre and early film. Previous projects: Griffith Project and editor Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film. (Recent film publications).
Affiliated Staff
Staff who also teach and research in Screen Studies in other subject areas and Schools, as well as collaborate with the CSS staff in Drama, include:
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Professor Jackie Stacey, RICC & EAS (Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures)
Dr Eithne Quinn (English and American Studies)
Dr Ian Scott (English and American Studies)
Dr Monica Pearl (English and American Studies)
Dr Ana Carden-Coyne, History
Dr Helen Rees Leahy, Institute for Cultural Practices
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Dr Darren Waldron
Dr Nuria Triana Toribio
Dr Lara Pucci
Dr Floriane Place-Verghnes
Professor Chris Perriam
Dr Joe McGonagal
Professor Stephen Hutchings
Dr Cathy Gelbin
Dr Lynne Attwood
Professor Hilary Owen
Professor Lúcia Sá
UG Screen and Languages modules and course structures in SLLC
School of Social Sciences
Professor Paul Henley
Dr Angela Torresan
Dr Rupert Cox
Dr Andrew Irving
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester
Contact details
Dr Rajinder Dudrah
Director of Centre for Screen Studies
Tel: +44-161-275-3964
Fax: +44-161-275-4994
Email: rajinder.dudrah@manchester.ac.uk
Please contact Dr David Butler (David.G.Butler@manchester.ac.uk) or Dr Johannes Sjöberg (johannes.sjoberg@manchester.ac.uk) during the research leave of Dr Rajinder Dudrah (July 2010-Sept 2010):
Centre for Screen Studies
Drama, SAHC
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK