The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter
Francis, P. (2023). The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?. In T. Austin (Ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (1-226). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?.

The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID (2023)
Book Chapter
Presence, S. (2023). The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 (177-199). (1). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This chapter is based on research conducted under the aegis of the UK Feature Docs research project (2018-20, https://ukfd.org.uk/), a three-year study of the UK’s feature-length documentary film industry funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Co... Read More about The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID.

The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo (2023)
Book Chapter
Presence, S., & Quigley, A. (2023). The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 (48-61). (1). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This interview explores the pandemic from the perspective of Doc Society, the lead body for UK documentary film funding. From the outset of the crisis to the formation of the Screen Sector Taskforce and the launch of the BFI Doc Society SOS Fund, the... Read More about The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo.