Current research projects in the School of Film and Television Studies:

Dr Rayna Denison

Funding from the British Academy to attend the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association Conference in February 2010.

'Manga Movies: Contemporary Japanese Cinema, Media Franchising and Transnational Adaptation' - Arts and Humanities Research Council funding to investigate the ways in which manga are used as source texts for Japanese film culture, beginning with an examination of media franchising and manga-to-live action-film adaptations in Japan.

Dr Keith Johnston

'Britian in the Third Dimension', a British Academy funded project investigating how British filmmakers used 3-D technology to create aesthetically innovative stereoscopic films that challenged the contemporary attitudes towards visual spectacle within British cinema.
 
Mr Peter Kramer

'"Controversies: A Clockwork Orange (1971)"', a Leverhulme Trust funded research fellowship which makes use of the recently opened Stanley Kubrick Archive to examine the making, marketing and reception of the film against the backdrop of rapid cultural and socio-political change in the US and UK in the late 1960s and early 1970s. August 2009 - July 2010.

Mr Richard Taylor 

Heritage Lottery and Screen East funding secured for the East Anglian Film Archive.