Media and Film Studies comprises a large and thriving team with a substantial number of early career researchers working in exciting and developing fields; areas of particular research excellenceinclude British film and television history; cult film; media discourse; technology and culture; representation; gender andidentity; creativity and practice; new media and transliteracy; the recent establishment of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre (CATH) demonstrates the outstandingachievements of Faculty staff working in that area; work on British cinema and television constitutes the core activity of the CATH Research Centre, but it also includes high quality research in European cinema and Hollywood history as well as work on contemporary policy, political economy and cultural and social impactthat is grounded in the methodologies of historical research.