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Item Metadata only 1950s Science Fiction Cinema’s Depersonalisation Narratives in Britain(2014-02-01) Jones, MatthewDepersonalisation 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 anti-communist sentiment manifested in different forms. This article positions two films, Britain’s Quatermass II (Guest 1957) and America’s It Came from Outer Space (Arnold 1953), in relation to this divergent British reception context. Resisting the tendency to see the genre only in relation to the US, it suggests the possibility of a unique and largely unexplored British reception history of 1950s sf cinema.Item Metadata only Aliens of London: (Re)reading National Identity in Doctor Who(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Army of Ghosts: Sight, Knowledge and the Invisible Terrorist in Doctor Who(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Butch Girls, Brittle Boys and Sexy, Sexless Cylons: Some Gender Problems in Battlestar Galactica(I. B. Tauris, 2010) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Cinema Memories: A People’s History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain(Bloomsbury, 2022-03-10) Jones, Matthew; Stokes, Melvyn; Pett, EmmaItem Metadata only Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s(2013-06) Jones, Matthew; Sokes, MelvynItem Metadata only Far from Swinging London: Memories of Non-urban Cinema-going in 1960s Britain(BFI / Palsgrave Macmillan, 2017) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Fleapits and Picture Palaces(2015) Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.; Porter, LaraineThis 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 local cinema culture with the broader national picture, it locates archival images and clips within the history of the rise, decline and resurgence of cinema-going as a popular activity. The film was screened several times at the Phoenix cinema in Leicester during 2015 and 2016, and has become a cornerstone of the Leicester Cinema History exhibition at DMU's Heritage Centre.Item Metadata only Hammer's Monsters: A Screen Bestiary(n/a, 2016-10) Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.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 DMU and provided a critical and historical commentary on these materials. Locating the archival objects and images within the industrial and creative history of the iconic Hammer Film Productions, the exhibition invited the public to reflect on the place of this studio within the broader development of British horror cinema.Item Metadata only Leicester Cinema History(2017-02) Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.; Ercole, Pierluigi; Porter, Laraine; Hanson, Stuart; Acciari, MoniaThis 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 the city and panels dedicated to the various types of cinemas that have operated in the surrounding area. Produced collaboratively by members of the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, the exhibition also featured objects and historical artefacts drawn from the Steve Chibnall Collection that highlighted the material cultures of film exhibition and consumption.Item Metadata only Living Cinema Memories: Restaging the Past at the Pictures(Bloomsbury, 2017) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Memories of British Cinema(Routledge, 2017-03) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only A Night at the Cinema in the 1960s(2016-03-03) Jones, Matthew; Wright, Ellen; Chibnall, S.; Clarke, Alissa; Jordan, KellyUsing the findings and data of the AHRC-funded 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s' project, this immersive theatre performance recreated the experience of visiting a cinema during that decade. Bringing together 30 actors, 2 directors, 2 producers and 2 cinema venues, 'A Night at the Cinema in the 1960s' was performed twice, once at Phoenix in Leicester on 3 March 2016 and once at Picturehouse Central in London on 29 June 2016. As well as being an output of the AHRC project's research and a means of generating impact from that work, it also enabled the project's researchers to develop a new understanding of their materials.Item Metadata only Post-colonial Britain?: David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia in History and Memory(2013) Jones, Matthew; Stokes, MelvynItem Open Access Reigniting the blaze: Hammer’s unmade remake of The Day the Earth Caught Fire(Peter Lang, 2021-08-30) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain: Recontextualising Cultural Anxiety(Bloomsbury, 2017-11-02) Jones, MatthewItem Metadata only Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games(McFarland, 2015) Jones, Matthew; Ormrod, JoanItem Open Access Windows on the World: Memories of European Cinemas in 1960s Britain(2017-01-03) Jones, Matthew; Stokes, MelvynDuring 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 of films screened in this country, were now in competition with the work of directors such as Bergman, Fellini, and Truffaut. Using responses from nearly a thousand participants in an investigation of cultural memory and British cinemagoing in the 1960s, this article explores how these encounters with European cinema are now remembered. While audiences tend to characterise these films as innovative, unusual and cerebral, they are also often thought of as obscure and baffling. This article argues that, however the films are now remembered, British cinema audiences sensed that they were having their eyes opened to new perspectives on the world through their exposure to films from other countries.