All Outputs (9)

Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network (2019)
Journal Article

The Independent Filmmakers Association (IFA) was formed in London in 1974 to represent the various strands of predominantly leftist and experimental independent filmmaking in post-war Britain. For the next fifteen years, the IFA played a key role in... Read More about Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network.

‘Britain’s first media centre’: A history of Bristol’s Watershed cinema, 1964-1998 (2019)
Journal Article

This article examines the genesis and development of the UK’s Watershed Cinema and Digital Creativity Centre. Established in 1982, Watershed was both the first full-time multi-screen independent cinema outside London and the first to integrate exhibi... Read More about ‘Britain’s first media centre’: A history of Bristol’s Watershed cinema, 1964-1998.

Freelance networks, trade unions and below-the-line solidarity in regional film and television clusters: An interview with the Bristol editors network (2019)
Journal Article

This article consists of an introduction and extended interview transcript conducted with several members of the Bristol Editors’ Network (BEN), an organization established in May 2015 to support the large community of editors that work in and around... Read More about Freelance networks, trade unions and below-the-line solidarity in regional film and television clusters: An interview with the Bristol editors network.

Autonomy and dependency in two successful UK film and television companies: An analysis of RED Production Company and Warp Films (2016)
Journal Article

This article analyses the production cultures of two film and television companies in the United Kingdom - RED Production and Warp Films - by discussing the companies' formation and identity, aims and ethos, internal structures and their networks of... Read More about Autonomy and dependency in two successful UK film and television companies: An analysis of RED Production Company and Warp Films.

Book review: Migration Documentary Films in Post-war Australia, Liangwen Kuo (2010) (2013)
Journal Article

This is a review of Liangwen Kuo's book, Migration Documentary Films in Post-war Australia (2010), that was published in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society in 2013.

Book review: The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Deborah Allison (2013) (2013)
Journal Article

This is a review of Deborah Allison's book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom (2013), which was published in Film International, Volume 11 Issue 5, DOI: 10.1386/fiin.11.5.77_5.

An investigation of affect in the cinema: Spectacle and the melodramatic rhetoric in Nil by Mouth (2013)
Journal Article

This article argues that the affective, visceral dimension of cinema spectatorship is a central component of our engagment with cinema. With reference to Tom Gunning's work on the cinema of attractions, I suggest that cinematic spectacle is affective... Read More about An investigation of affect in the cinema: Spectacle and the melodramatic rhetoric in Nil by Mouth.

The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011, France/UK) [Film Review] (2011)
Journal Article

This is a review of The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011, France/UK) that was published in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 33-34 (2011)

Soul Power (Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, 2008, USA) [Film review] (2010)
Journal Article

This is a review of the 2008 documentary, Soul Power, that was published in Film International, Volume 8 Issue 6, December 2010. DOI: 10.1386/fiin.8.6.79