Intellect

David Forrest is Faculty Project Officer and Honorary Research Associate at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. His Ph.D. (2009) was entitled ‘Social realism: A British art cinema’ and constituted a formalist analysis of British realist cinema, in line with theories of Art Cinema. He has produced articles and presented conference papers on various aspects of British film and television, including contemporary British realism; the work of Shane Meadows; the British New Wave; the relationship between text and screen treatments of working-class themes and subjects; realist television drama; and the documentary movement.