Outputs (558)

Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research (2022)
Book Chapter

This article is based on my keynote and accompanying workshop for the inaugural StoryBits conference in April 2021. This was ten years on from the first i-Docs symposium in March 2011, with the StoryBits conference taking a similar approach in relati... Read More about Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research.

Interactive documentary: Its history and future as a polyphonic form (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at the decolonization of interactive documentary practices through the lens of polyphony. Writing as practice-based researchers from a position of privilege, the authors argue that self-reflexivity is a key requirement for “decolon... Read More about Interactive documentary: Its history and future as a polyphonic form.

Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival (2021)
Journal Article

Crofts, C. (2021) ‘Bristol Fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film Heritage, Screen Tourism and Curating the Cary Comes Home Festival’ in submitted to Open Screens.

Abstract
This article re-examines Cary Grant’s star persona arguing tha... Read More about Bristol fashion: Reclaiming Cary Grant for Bristol – Film heritage, screen tourism and curating the Cary Comes Home Festival.

Images and places - Sense as surfacing (2021)
Thesis

A practice research project exploring onto-epistemology produced through experimental located moving image practice in concrescence with the cinematic thought of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). There are two central site-related photomedia arts p... Read More about Images and places - Sense as surfacing.

The maternal flaneuse: Using sensory visual autoethnography to document the experiences of early motherhood in place (2021)
Thesis

In this thesis I have documented my sensory experiences of early motherhood in relation to the places in which they were experienced. This was achieved through mixed media practices of observational filmmaking; documentary photography sound re... Read More about The maternal flaneuse: Using sensory visual autoethnography to document the experiences of early motherhood in place.

The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture (2021)
Book

The 360° Gaze is the first comprehensive study that traces immersive experiences across a wide range of media and cultural practices in postmodern culture. With its interdisciplinary methodology, this book reveals the intersections between immersive... Read More about The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture.

Seeing It On Television (2021)
Book

Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US ‘High-end’ Series is co-authored by Dominic Lees and Max Sexton. The book is a detailed study of aesthetics in contemporary US television drama. It examines a range of cultural, technolog... Read More about Seeing It On Television.

“You feel, in that moment, you are sitting next to them!”: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality nonfiction in the home (2021)
Other

Summary findings from EPSRC Virtual Realities research project Household Study. Peer reviewed article in Convergence Journal - in UWE Research Repository.
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non... Read More about “You feel, in that moment, you are sitting next to them!”: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality nonfiction in the home.

Faking it (2021)
Journal Article

Could deepfake films make their way from YouTube novelty and artworld provocation into mainstream cinema?

Cary Grant Comes Home festival events feedback (2021)
Report

Event evaluation report and participant feedback on Looking for Archie Walking Tour, New York Centenary online events, Mark Glancy online talk, and Cary Comes Home for the Weekend online festival.