Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television (University of Bristol)

Founded in 1947, it is the oldest such department in the United Kingdom. In addition to its 150 undergraduates, the department has postgraduates engaged in research or studying for taught MA programmes.

Facilities include the Wickham Theatre, where its productions are presented and practical theatre teaching takes place; the Brandt Cinema and video viewing complex, which serves the study of film and television; and the internationally recognised Theatre Collection, which is both a theatre archive and a reference library, and which houses the Women's Theatre collection, a unique archive of women's theatre material.

For practical work in film and television, the Department also possesses media production equipment of a professional standard.

In addition to some 150 students following undergraduate courses, the Department has a complement of postgraduates studying for the MA in Cultural Performance, the MA in Cinema Studies, the MA in Television Studies, the MA in Film and Television Production, MA in Archaeology for Screen Media, the MA in the Composition of Music for Film, Television and Theatre and for research degrees. The Department welcomes a number of students from other countries, including those wishing to spend a year of their undergraduate course abroad through the university's Study Abroad Programme.

Contact Mrs Kay Russell

Tel: (+44 117) or (0117) 331 5083 Fax: (+44 117) or (0117) 331 5082 Email: Kay.Russell@bristol.ac.uk

Professor Baz Kershaw, MA (Hawaii), PhD (Exeter): Community theatre and social applications of drama; theatre and economics; 20th-century British theatre history; radical performance; performance and democracy; performance and ecology; new technologies and performance; performance practice as research.

Professor Martin E White, BA (Newcastle), MA (Birmingham): English Renaissance drama; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in performance from 16th-century to 20th-century; performance; stage directing: theory and practice.

John R J Adams, MA (Exeter): Iconologies of setting in film, television and theatre; theory and practice of documentary film and television programmes; performance styles in film and television with reference to appropriate theatrical contexts.

Sara Jane Bailes, BA (Lancaster), MA (New York): Contemporary and historical avant-garde theatre; feminist approaches to performance; urban cultures and everyday performance; marxism; poststructuralism, and performance studies; body art.

Liz Bird, BA (Oxford), MA, DPhil (Sussex): Cultural theory, film, media and television, feminist theory and the politics of gender.

Jonathan Dovey, MA (Oxon): Media production (video, multimedia); documentary and television studies; new media and computer games; media theory and practice.

Simon P Jones, BA, PhD (Bristol): Rhetoric and post-structuralist theory; pragmatics of creativity in theatre; modern British theatre; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; performance theory and work.

Jacqueline Maingard, MA (Dramatic Arts), PhD (University of Witwatersrand): Representations of identity in film and television; third cinema: national cinema; documentary film and video.

Sarah C J Street, BA (Warwick), DPhil (Oxford): Gender and sexuality; film costume and accessories; the politics and economics of the film industry; Hollywood cinema and society; British cinema.

Janet B Thumim, PhD (London): Cultural construction of identity and the politics of gender; the popular culture, entertainment and the circulation of information; spectatorship, reading and the audience; film and television in the 50s and 60s in the UK. (www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Drama)