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Prof Ian Christie is a Professor of Film & Media History at Birkbeck, University of London, within the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication. He previously held positions at the University of Kent and Oxford University. His career includes significant roles at the British Film Institute (1976–96), co-producing BBC2's The Last Machine and co-curating the Hayward Gallery's Spellbound: Art and Film. He directed the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies and currently leads the London Screen Study Collection at Birkbeck's Centre for Film and Visual Media Research.
His research focuses on London's film history, early cinema, British and Russian cinema, and the digital revolution. He co-founded the journal Film Studies (1999) and serves as Vice President of Europa Cinemas and Trustee of the Independent Film Parliament. Christie has supervised doctoral theses on topics like Italian film avant-gardes, art cinema in postwar Britain, and film archives' future. His teaching includes modules on cinema history and media technology.
His publications span scholarly articles in Sight & Sound, books on Michael Powell, Eisenstein, and early cinema, and edited volumes on film audiences and Russian cinema. Recent work explores early film crafts, digital exhibition, and Eisenstein's legacy. His contributions bridge academic research, film preservation, and cultural policy.
