Resources for Film & TV Studies
Viewing
- professional 35mm projection in 4 departmental screening rooms as part of our new £3.5 million Film and Television Study Centre
- Steenbeck study tables
- digital video projection (including Blu-Ray) in various departmental rooms available for booking by students.
- dedicated Film and Television IT facilities
- extensive programme of departmental screenings
- dedicated graduate students’ study room (including viewing and seminar preparation facilities and Radio Times collection)
Library
- probably the best University library for film and television studies in the UK
- all major books in the field in the English language and substantial holdings in French, German and Italian (including the Harmssen collection on Third Reich film)
- runs of the major scholarly journals (e.g. Cahiers du cinéma, Cinema Journal, Movie, Screen, Positif) as well as trade and fan periodicals (e.g. Broadcast, Picturegoer, Variety)
- very extensive VHS/DVD collection (over 15,000 titles)
- plasma screen viewing facilities
- subscriptions to all major film databases, including BFI Film Index International and the FIAF index
- Modern Records Centre
Campus
- Repertory Film Theatre (on average eight different films per week as well as day schools and special series)
- Student Film Society, with 70mm projection
- Language Centre (audio-visual facilities, computer-assisted learning, satellite television, library)
- freely available computing facilities and training
Region
- Multiplex and Repertory cinemas
- Coventry library DVD collection
- Birmingham Film and Television Festival
- Birmingham Pre and Early Cinema Museum
- BBC Television
- Carlton Television
- British Film Institute library and National Film Archive in London (60 minutes to London by train; free pass to BFI library available)
Computing facilities and training are available to all graduate students
Internet Resources can be found here
