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Research
Film Studies at Kent was ranked as one of the two best departments in the country in terms of 'research power' in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008. Entered as part of the School of Arts submission, 35% of our research was been recognised as world class (4*) and a further 35% (3*) as internationally excellent.
Research is focussed through our Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image, our Research Group for the Study of Cinema and Moving Image Theory and Practice, as well as our interdisciplinary Aesthetics Group (with History and Philosophy of Art, and Philosophy), and the Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance (Drama).
Staff are specialists in the major areas of cinema and moving image theory and practice: authorship in the cinema, narrative theory and screenwriting practice, American film history, style and performance, digital cinema, animation and science fiction, British and Continental European cinemas, Hispanic film, cognitive film theory, analytical and continental film and philosophy, documentary theory and practice, psychoanalysis and cinema, film and video practice, avant-garde practice and the interrelation of still and moving image.