Dr Christophe Dupin
Research Assistant
email: c.dupin@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Christophe Dupin was born in Montélimar, in the South of France. In 1996 he obtained his first degree in Politics from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (aka Sciences Po Grenoble). He went on to do an MA in Film Studies co-run by Birkbeck College and the British Film Institute. From 1999 to 2004, he worked for the BFI National Library while writing a PhD on the history of the BFI’s film production activity. He joined Queen Mary in October 2004 to work with Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith for the three and a half-year, AHRC-funded History of the BFI Research Project.
Research interests:
His current research areas are the history of the British Film Institute, the Free Cinema movement of the 1950s, more generally the institutional history of British independent film and British film policy. Another area of interest is French cinema, and in particular French silent cinema, the Nouvelle Vague and new French cinema of the 1990s.
Publications:
“Early Days of Short Film Production at the British Film Institute: Origins and Evolution of the BFI Experimental Film Fund (1952-1966)”, Journal of Media Practice, 4:2 (2003), p 77-91.
“The Post-war Transformation of the British Film Institute and its Impact on the Development of a National Film Culture in Britain”, Screen, 47:4 (2006).
“The Origins and Early Development of the National Film Library: 1929-1936”, Journal of Media Practice, 7:3, (2007).
“The BFI and Independent British Cinema in the 1970s”, in Robert Shail (ed), British Cinema of the 1970s, (BFI, forthcoming)
He also produced the ‘Free Cinema’ DVD box-set released by the British Film Institute on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the movement (2006).