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An AHRC-funded doctoral studentship (fees and annual stipend £12,500-
13,000) is available on the following project based in the Department of 
Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, University of Bristol, starting in 
Ocotober 2007. The student will be supervised by Professor Sarah Street.

The AHRC has awarded a 3-year Research Grant to a project headed by 
Professor Sarah Street, University of Bristol, entitled The Negotiation of 
Innovation: Colour Films in Britain 1900-55. The project is a comparative 
analysis of colour film processes introduced to British commercial fiction 
and non-fiction filmmaking during the first half of the twentieth century. 
It aims to provide an economic, cultural and aesthetic history of colour 
film, based on archival sources, the film trade press, related 
literature/periodicals and textual analysis. The project team (Sarah 
Street, Co-Investigator Simon Brown of Kingston University, a post-
doctoral researcher and the PhD student) will investigate how emergent 
technologies had to make a case for their superiority in a market that was 
dominated by cheaper, black and white films that were also privileged in 
aesthetic terms.

For further information, contact: [log in to unmask], phone: 0117 
331 5090
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Salvatore Scifo
Communications,
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network


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