Dr Bregt Lameris

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research profile

As a scholar in media studies, I am interested in various topics, such as the history of film archiving, the history of film history writing, colour in early non-fiction cinema, medical images and the representation of madness. My research on these topics mainly questions the role images play in the construction of discourse. For example, the project on madness investigates the role of medical images in the discourse on mental disorders in the late 19th and early 20th century. I finished my Ph.D. Re-exposed - the pas-de-deux between film archival practices and film history writing, in 2007, which will be published by Amsterdam University Press in 2013. Currently, I am employed as a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where I am engaged on the project 'Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and Its Intermedial Contexts'.

 

See also the PURE research profile.

Selected publications

Book:

Re-exposed: On Theories and Practices of Film Museums and Film Historiography, Amsterdam University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Articles:

‘Neurocinematografie in Nederland. De Magnus-Rademaker collectie', Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (with Peter Koehler and Eva Hielscher), 2012 (forthcoming)

‘Early Passive and Active Preservation in the Netherlands Filmmuseum 1956-1984', Journal of Film Preservation, no. 87, October 2012: 51-56

‘Reading the Archive, Tracing Film History - Ballet Mécanique coloured or black-and-white?', The Archive, Memory, Cinema, Video and the Image of the Present, Pietro Bianchi, Giulio Burso, Simone Venturini (eds.), FilmForum; Udine, 2012: 103-110

‘Writing the History of Lost Films', in: What Burns Never Returns; Lost and Found Films, Giulio Bursi, Simone Venturini (eds), Campanotto Editore; Udine, 2011: 120-138

‘Het filmarchief en de gekleurde filmgeschiedenis van Jean Desmet' [The film archive and the coloured history of Jean Desmet], Archievenblad, November 2010: 19-22

‘Materialità e sensazione storica del film', in: Bianco e Nero, no.553, 2005: 147-154

‘Pathécolor: the absolute rendition of natural colours', Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and the Projected Image Before 1914, vol.2, no.2, 2003: 46-58

‘Gissen naar de ogen van Mosjoukine - 22e Giornate del Cinema Muto', in: Skrien, Dec. 2003.

‘Archimedia 2001: Digitale restauratie kent eigen problemen', in: Skrien, October 2001.

Current research

Bregt works on the Leverhulme Trust funded research project ‘Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and its Intermedial Contexts', led by Prof. Sarah Street and Dr. Joshua Yumibe.

For all the information on this project: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2012/8389.html