Publications

Carla Mereu Keating and Catherine O’Rawe, ‘Reflections on a “Missing Archive”: Women in Italian Film Studios (1930-60’Feminist Media Histories, vol. 11, no. 4, 2025, pp. 155-163.

Richard Farmer, ‘Requiem for a Film Studio: The Death and Afterlife of Denham’Industrial Archaeology Review, 2025, pp. 1-16. 

Richard Farmer, ‘Death in Filmland: British Film Studios and 1930s Detective Fiction’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, vol. 22 no. 3, 2025, pp. 342-63.

Sarah Street, ‘This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of Working in British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s’Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2025, pp. 1-26.

Sarah Street, ‘All the inside”dope”’: Studio Relay and Textual Analysis’, Screen, vol. 65, no. 4, 2024, pp. 472-500.

STUDIOTEC team, dataset of blogs written April 2020 to August 2024.

Eleanor Halsall, ‘A Leap into the Dark: Ufa’s Tonkeruz, Germany’s First Dedicated Sound Film Studio’Architectural Histories, 12 (1), 2024.

Richard Farmer, ‘“Bridal Outfits from the Heart of Filmland!”: Clothes Rationing, Wartime Film Production and Gainsborough’Journal of British Cinema and Television, vol. 21, no. 2, 2024, pp. 215-38.

Sarah Street, Pinewood: Anatomy of a Film Studio in Post-war Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. XIII, 183.

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Richard Farmer, ‘Cutting their cloth, counting their coupons: clothes rationing and British film production in the 1940s’Screen, vol. 65, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1-24.

Carla Mereu Keating, ‘The “Centre of World Cinema”. The Roman-ness of Film Production between Decentralising Plans and Internationalisation’L’avventura, International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes, 2023, pp. 53-72.

Eleanor Halsall, ‘Emil Schünemann: ein “früher bestbewährter Kameramann’” in Bock, Hans-Michael Bock and Erika Wottrich (eds.) In Die Kamera Im Fokus: Von Der Gekurbelten Zur Digitalen Filmkunst In Der Deutschen Kinematografie. Edition Text + Kritik, 2024, 14 pp.

Richard Farmer, Kino Quickies podcast, recorded 4 December 2022 at Kino Cinema in Bermondsey, London: https://www.kinoquickies.com/episode/11-death-on-the-set

Sarah Street, ‘The Prudential Group Archive: Alexander Korda, London Film Productions and Denham Studios’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, vol. 19, no. 4, 2022, pp. 447-69.

Sarah Street, ‘Bringing “the whole world on to the British screen”: Back Projection and British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, vol. 19, no. 3, 2022, pp. 295-324.

Sarah Street, ‘Requisitioning film studios in wartime Britain’Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Taylor and Francis Online, 2022.

Richard Farmer, ‘The English Hollywood that wasn’t: shadow history and Esher’s unbuilt film studios’Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Taylor and Francis Online, 2022.

Richard Farmer, Clear for Action: Fog in UK Film Studios, CIBSE Journal (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), March 2022, pp. 42-3.

Sarah Street, Designing the Ideal Film Studio in Britain, Screen, vol. 62, no. 3, 2021, pp. 330-58.

Carla Mereu Keating, The Spatiality of Film Production and the Politics of Urban Planning: Rome’s Pioneering Film Studio Cines (1905-37), Film History, vol. 33, no. 3, 2021, pp. 37-65.

Eleanor Halsall, ‘An epistolary history of Indo-German film relations’ in Jörg Zedler (ed.) The Bombay Talkies Limited: Akteure – deutsche Einflüsse – kulturhistorischer Kontext.Munich. Utzverlag, 2021, pp. 137-172. 

Halsall, Eleanor Halsall, ‘Kosmopoliten, Nationalisten, Visionäre: Indische Filmstudenten und Filmschaffende im Deutschland der Weimarer Republik’, Filmblatt, 73/74, 2021. 

Carla Mereu Keating, ‘Acoustic Insulation: Italian Film Studios’ Material Transition to Sound’ in S. Otto (ed.), Retuning the Screen: Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History (Udine: Gorizia FilmForum 2021), pp. 95-105.

Richard Farmer, Meteorology and British film studios: an article of the London fog, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Taylor and Francis Online, 2021.

Morgan Lefeuvre, ‘L’acteur: un travailleur des studios comme un autre? Place des acteurs dans le système des studios français des années 1930‘, Création Collective au Cinema, no. 4, 2021, pp. 19-38.

Morgan Lefeuvre, ‘Les techniciens et ouvriers des studios dans les années 1930 : enjeux et limites d’une histoire générale des métiers de la production cinématographique’ in Métiers et techniques du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel : sources, terrains, méthodes, Eds. Hélène Fleckinger, Kira Kitsopanidou and Sébastien Layerle (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021), ISBN: 978-2-8076-1277-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b16260

Sarah Street, ‘Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation’ in Brian R. Jacobson (ed.), In the Studio: Visual Creation and its Material Environments, Oakland, University of California Press, 2020, pp. 103-121: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/pinewood-studios-the-independent-frame-and-innovation

Morgan Lefeuvre, ‘Les travailleurs des studios: modalités d’embauches et conditions de travail (1930-1939)’, 1895: Revue de l’association française de recherche sur l’histoire du cinema, no. 65, 2011, pp. 122-149: DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/1895.4439