Stephen Gundle, of Film and Television Studies, has received funding of £970,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a three-year research project on the place of women in the Italian film industry in the decades after World War Two. The project builds on work undertaken by Stephen and Karl Schoonover between 2016 and 2019 on a previous AHRC project about producers and production practices in Italian cinema. The other investigators on the new project – which begins in February 2023 - will be Daniela Treveri Gennari and Silvia Dibeltulo of Oxford Brookes University.

The latest issue of Mediapolis Journal (Vol.7 No.2)Link opens in a new window has recently been published, featuring contributions by a number of researchers from Film and Television Studies at Warwick.

Dr Michael Pigott has made an interactive soundmap of the Coventry Ring Road for the Resonate Festival, which features music made from the low-level vibrations and other hidden sounds of the Ring Road: https://ringroadring.warwick.ac.uk/.

Professor Helen Wheatley has won the award for 'Best Journal Article 2021' at the annual conference of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) for the article 'Haunted Television: Trauma and the Specter in the Archive'.

Publications by Alastair Phillips and Helen Wheatley have been nominated for Awards by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies