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There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments (2024)
Journal Article
Aston, J. (in press). There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments. Media Practice and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2024.2331342

This article critiques the ongoing dominance of the Hollywood monomyth in the film and television industry, at least in the UK if not more widely. It considers how this is impacting on the teaching of narrative and story in university film and media... Read More about There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments.

Cary Grant, see under "Charm" (2024)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2024). Cary Grant, see under "Charm". [Video]

This contribution to the Screen Stars Dictionary explores Cary Grant, under the word "Charm". SCREEN STARS DICTIONARY The Screen Stars Dictionary begins as a joint project between Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays and Ariel Avissar. Inspir... Read More about Cary Grant, see under "Charm".

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2024)
Book Chapter
Rose, M. (in press). The possible worlds of VR documentary. In Handbook of Documentary. Intellect

Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files (2023)
Book Chapter
Livingstone, T. (2023). Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files. In J. Fenwick, & D. A. Rodgers (Eds.), The Legacy of the X-Files. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter highlights the way in which The X-Files use of digital visual effects contributes to its reflection of its cultural, social and political contexts, intersecting with the social commentary present in the aesthetics of Monsters of the Week... Read More about Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files.

Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Crofts, C. Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach. [Theatre Walk]. Exhibited at Bristol. 18 November 2023 - 19 November 2023. (Unpublished)

The University of the West of England and Cary Comes Home Festival present an all-new immersive actor-led theatre walk in partnership with Show Of Strength Theatre Company, using language and location to explore the transformation of Bristol-born Arc... Read More about Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach.

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?.

Paper tensions: From flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices (2023)
Book Chapter
Egbe, A. (2023). Paper tensions: From flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices. In S. Breakell, & W. Russell (Eds.), The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Concerning the materiality of reproduction and duplication in film, this chapter explores the overlap of moving image and paper technologies. It presents an assemblage of paper related moving image artefacts: paper prints, posters, flipbooks, optical... Read More about Paper tensions: From flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig. [Online Talk]

When I Dare To Be Powerful Online Talk Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing questions relating to... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2023, June). Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?. Paper presented at Oral History Society Making Histories Together Conference 2023, Nottingham

In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard (2023)
Other
Francis, P. (2023). Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard. [Online Newspaper Journal]

In response to the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, international protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement asserted the global inequity of the Black experience. But the Black Lives Matter movement was formed much earlier than... Read More about Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard.

Near neighbours: Artificial intelligence and anti-racism as an activating pursuit in archival moving image practice (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Egbe, A. (2023, June). Near neighbours: Artificial intelligence and anti-racism as an activating pursuit in archival moving image practice. Paper presented at Eye International Conference 2023 Activating the Archive Audiovisual Collections and Civic Engagement, Global Collaboration and Societal Change, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being utilized in various fields including the film industry and archives. The use of AI as a film analysis tool has the potential to develop the way we understand and critique cinema. AI systems can be tr... Read More about Near neighbours: Artificial intelligence and anti-racism as an activating pursuit in archival moving image practice.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon.

Conversations in copyright, creativity and culture (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Egbe, A., Heftberger, A., Holloway, W., Anton Smith, P., & van Gompel, S. (2023, May). Conversations in copyright, creativity and culture. Presented at Open Sesame: Copyright, Creativity and Culture, Bournemouth University

This event aims to showcase that there are many ways in which archival content can be unlocked thereby opening doors to new creative material coming into being. The event hosted by CIPPM and presented in two parts will explore copyright, creativit... Read More about Conversations in copyright, creativity and culture.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar.

Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Egbe, A. (2023, April). Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data. Presented at AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges, University of Sussex

Considering the concern for racial bias within AI algorithms, could creative responses within moving image archival practice and critical film theory foreground possibilities for intersectional approaches. This paper stems from artist practices with... Read More about Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data.

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.

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.

Attracting and sustaining the screen industry workforce in Yorkshire and the Humber (2023)
Report
Hughes, E., & Webber, D. J. (2023). Attracting and sustaining the screen industry workforce in Yorkshire and the Humber. https://screen-network.org.uk: XR Stories, University of York

A key resource to any creative industry is their workforce, and this is particularly true for the screen industry. Although the central importance of this workforce is widely acknowledged, comparatively little is known about the mobility and embedde... Read More about Attracting and sustaining the screen industry workforce in Yorkshire and the Humber.