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Leicester Cinema History

Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.; Ercole, Pier; Porter, Laraine; Hanson, Stuart; Acciari, Monia (2017-02)

This public exhibition, housed in the DMU Heritage Centre, ran from February to May 2017. It charted the development, decline and resurgence of Leicester's cinema culture through a large map displaying the cinemas within ...

Windows on the World: Memories of European Cinemas in 1960s Britain

Jones, Matthew; Stokes, Melvyn (2017-01-03)

During the 1960s, European cinema became increasingly available to British audiences. The expansion of university film societies and arthouse cinemas meant that domestic and US productions, which made up the vast majority ...

Post-colonial Britain?: David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia in History and Memory

Jones, Matthew; Stokes, Melvyn (2013)

Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain: Recontextualising Cultural Anxiety

Jones, Matthew (Bloomsbury, 2017-11-02)

Memories of British Cinema

Jones, Matthew (Routledge, 2017-03)

Fleapits and Picture Palaces

Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.; Porter, Laraine (2015)

This 25-minute documentary, produced collaborative by members of the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, explores the history of cinema-going in Leicester and its surrounding area. Connecting trends in ...

Hammer's Monsters: A Screen Bestiary

Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S. (n/a, 2016-10)

This public exhibition, housed in the DMU Heritage Centre, ran from October 2016 to October 2017. It displayed materials from the Hammer Script Archive held by the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre at ...

1950s Science Fiction Cinema’s Depersonalisation Narratives in Britain

Jones, Matthew (2014-02-01)

Depersonalisation narratives in 1950s sf cinema have most frequently been understood as reflections of American anxieties about Soviet infiltration and subversion. However, these films were also popular in Britain, where ...