The Centre for Cinema Studies stimulates comprehensive research into diverse areas of film and the wide dissemination of the results to the local and global community.
Our Funded Research Projects
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“Between blood and data: anatomy of the post-millennial Hollywood fight sequence”
Directed by Lisa Coulthard, executed by Lisa Coulthard, Lindsay Steenberg (Oxford Brookes University), and PhD students Gabrielle Berry and Harrison Wade
Funded by SSHRC Insight Grant (2019)
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“Digital Cinema in Transition”
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Dr. Doris Baltruschat
Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2012-13)
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Cinephile culture: digital film consumption and the video store
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Molly Lewis and Angela Walsh
Undergraduate research project funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2012)
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Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914
Directed by Brian McIlroy, executed by Dr. Peter Lester and PhD student Joshua Ferguson
Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2011-13)
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“Digital Cinema in Transition”
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Dr. Doris Baltruschat
Faculty of Arts HSS Research Grant (2011-2012)
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Vancouver Goes to the Movies: Towards a Social and Contextual History of Cinemagoing and Film Exhibition in British Columbia, 1898-1929
Directed by Brian McIlroy. Executed by Dr. Diane Burgess, Shaun Inouye and Babak Tabarraee
Funded by UBC Hampton Grant (2010-12)
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“Violence and New European Cinema”
Directed by Lisa Coulthard, executed by Dana Keller, Chelsea Birks and Tobias Winblad
Undergraduate research project funded by the Faculty of Arts (2010-2011)
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Film Distribution in North America, 1967-2007: the case of New Line Cinema
Directed by Ernest Mathijs and Rachel Talalay, executed by April Green and Dana Keller
Undergraduate research project funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2010)
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Hot, Cool & Cult: the Global Reception of Contemporary Cult Cinema
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Babak Tabarraee, Dana Keller, Shaun Inouye
Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2009-2012)
www.cultmovieresearch.com
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Early Cinema in Downtown Vancouver
Directed by Brian McIlroy, executed by Sony Williams and Emma Myers
Undergraduate research project, funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2009)
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Canadian Cinema Abroad: the International Reception of David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises
Directed by Ernest Mathijs, executed by Dax Sorrenti
Undergraduate research project, funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC (2008)
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Love’s Violence: Sadism, Masochism and Courtly Love in Contemporary European Cinema
Directed by Lisa Coulthard
Funded by Hampton Research Fund (2007-08)
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Irish Genres: Cinema and Society 1981-2006