Ian Christie

Professor of Media History, Birkbeck, University of London

I am professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, and study the development of cinema.

I am a film historian, curator, broadcaster and consultant. I have written books on early film, Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema and Scorsese. My current research interests include optical media, the impact of film in the digital era, and the potential of psychology and cognitive neuroscience to explain what we experience on screen.

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Publications

Christie, I. (2019). Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema. The University of Chicago Press.
Christie, I. (2015). How Zhivago Happened. Bloomsbury.
Christie, I. (2015). The visible and the invisible: From ‘tricks’ to ‘effects’. Early Popular Visual Culture, 13(2).
Christie, I. (Ed.). (2012). Audiences. Amsterdam University Press.
Christie, I. (2008). The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design. Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press.
Christie, I. (1995). Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World. Bloomsbury.

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