Research and Publications
The Centre's associated staff and researchers have published across a wide range of research areas.
The Centre is keen to encourage and support interdisciplinary projects with other research disciplines and groups and is affiliated to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts.
The Centre is committed to supporting postgraduate and collaborative research. We welcome enquiries from individuals interested in research degrees (including practice-based projects), our taught Masters course or with proposals for collaboration.
Current Projects
In partnership with the NOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance and Sound-Art, the Centre was honoured to acquire in 2007 the archive of the late Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001) as a permanent loan to the University of Manchester from the Derbyshire estate and the composer Mark Ayres, former custodian of the archive. Work on the archive has begun and further details can be found here.
Recent publications by members of the Centre include:
Butler D 2007 'One wall and no roof make a house: the illusion of space and place in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings' in A Lam and N Oryshchuk (eds) How We Became Middle-earth: A Collection of Essays on The Lord of the Rings. Zollikofen: Walking Tree Publishers. pp.149-168.
Butler D (ed) 2007 Time And Relative Dissertations In Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Butler D 2006 'The days do not end: film music, time and Bernard Herrmann' in Film Studies: An International Review, Vol.9 (Winter), pp.51-63.
Butler D 2002 Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction. Westport: Praeger.
Chan, F. When is a foreign-language film not a foreign-language film? When it has too much English in it; The Case of a Singapore film and the Oscars. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9.1, March 2008, 95—105.
Chan, F. ‘Balancing binaries: Narrative Structure in Northern Exposure’. Critical Studies in Television 1.2. Special Issue: Quirky Quality Television: Revisiting Northern Exposure. (Autumn 2006). 39—51.
Chan, F. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Cultural migrancy and translatability’. Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes. Ed. Chris Berry, London: British Film Institute, 2003. 56—64.
Crossley L 2007 'Digital perfection or, will Middle-earth be the death of New Zealand?' in A Lam and N Oryshchuk (eds) How We Became Middle-earth: A Collection of Essays on The Lord of the Rings. Zollikofen: Walking Tree Publishers. pp.169-183.
Dudrah R 'South Asian Popular Culture'. Ongoing journal editorship.
Journal website: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14746689.html
Dudrah R (2007) 'Bhangra: Birmingham and Beyond'. Birmingham: Birmingham Central Library and Punch Records. http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=SystemAdmin%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092729067&packedargs=website%3D1&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper&rendermode=live
Dudrah R (2006) 'Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies'. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book226453&
Lowe, V. 'The best speaking voices in the world'. Robert Donat, stardom and the voice in British Cinema', Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 1, no 2, January 2005 .
Lowe, V. 'Acting with feeling: Robert Donat, the 'Emotion Chart' and The Citadel (1938)' in Film History, Vol XVII, no. 1, (2007).
Mayer, D. Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W. Griffith and the American Theatre, University of Iowa Press, 2009.
Mayer, D. Playing Out the Empire: Ben Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908, Oxford University Press, 1994. Reissued 1999 and 2002.
Mayer, D. “Victorian Pantomime on Twentieth-Century Film”, Jim Davis (ed.) Victorian Pantomime, London (Palgrave Macmillan), 2010, pp. 201-215.
Mayer, D. “Rescued from an eBay Site (a theatrical source for an early Edison film)”, Film History, vol. 21, no. 4, 2009, pp. 336-345.
Paz, M (2008) 'South of the future: an overview of comtemporary Latin American science fiction cinema' in Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol.1 Issue 1 (Spring 2008), pp.81-103.
Sjöberg, J. (2008) 'Ethnofiction: drama as a creative research practice in ethnographic film', Journal of Media Practice , Intellect Books & Journals, Vol. 9 Issue 3, pp. 229-242.
Sjöberg, J. (2008) 'Workshop on Ethnofictions', In: Runnel, P., ed. Mediating Culture through Film: Conversations and Reflections on Filmmaking at Tartu Worldfilm Festival. Tartu, Estonian National Museum, pp. 99-103.
Sjöberg, J. (2006) ‘The Ethnofiction in Theory and Practice Part 1’, NAFA Network Vol. 13.3a (August 2006).
Sjöberg, J. (2006) ‘The Ethnofiction in Theory and Practice Part 2’, NAFA Network Vol. 13.4a (December 2006).
Films:
Sjöberg, J. (2001). Long Time No See. GCVA, The University of Manchester. Screenings: NAFA (Joensuu, 2002), RAI (Durham, 2003), Public screenings at UC of Dalarna (2002), Stockholm University 2002, Manchester University (2001)
Sjöberg, J. (2007) Transfiction. The University of Manchester. Screenings: RAI (Manchester, July 2007), Mix Brasil (São Paulo, November 2007), The Jean Rouch International Film Festival (Paris, March 2008), Worldfilm: Tartu Festival of Visual Culture (Tartu, March 2008), NAFA (Ísafjördur, May 2008) Beeld voor Beeld (Amsterdam, June 2008), Visicult (Joensuu and Petrozavodsk, October 2008) and Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico (Rio de Janeiro, November 2008).
Sjöberg, J. Davoust, J. and J. Södergren. (2008) Nothing Can Stop Us! FaktaFiktion Sweden. Screenings: Göteborg 31st International Film Festival (January 2008)