Film, screen and popular culture PhD

University of Brighton

The University of Brighton has a research culture in film and screen studies that has fostered national archives and given critical insight across practice, theory and history. The city of Brighton itself was the home of pioneering filmmakers in the 1890s, making it a birthplace of modern cinema. It has long been a cultural icon in British screen history, and is today a vibrant hub of contemporary media industry activity including digital media, games and film. At the university, we have expert supervisory staff across film theory and history and also broadcast media production including television and podcast. We welcome approaches for PhD research in film and screen using any viable methodologies, whether traditional academic analysis with written outputs or practice-led making in film, animation or design for gaming. Academic activity in this area extends into a range of related disciplines including popular culture, sound arts and podcasting. Our approach incorporates text (in the widest sense), technology, industry and audience with multidisciplinary researchers interrogating contemporary developments in media cultures, drawing on critical approaches to popular spectacle, literature, theatre, photography and sociology.

University of Brighton