All Outputs (102)

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

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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.

Faking it (2021)
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Could deepfake films make their way from YouTube novelty and artworld provocation into mainstream cinema?

Expanding practice: Script development with new Deaf screenwriting talent (2020)
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In Deaf film and television, modest production budgets and limited training opportunities present considerable challenges for emerging screenwriting talent. This article argues that orthodox approaches to developing screenplays must be expanded when... Read More about Expanding practice: Script development with new Deaf screenwriting talent.

The encounter with the real: What can Complicite’s Theatre performance 'The Encounter' teach us about the future of VR narratives? (2020)
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The most recent emergence of relatively inexpensive VR technologies has received an enthusiastic attention from the entertainment industry, visual and multimedia artists, and academia. The world of computer gaming is thriving with the new VR platform... Read More about The encounter with the real: What can Complicite’s Theatre performance 'The Encounter' teach us about the future of VR narratives?.

Fargo: Seeing the significance of style in television poetics? (2019)
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This article explores the adaptation of the original film to television and how a strain of art or independent cinema contributed to the development of the first series of Fargo (2014–present). By making this comparison, the transition to television... Read More about Fargo: Seeing the significance of style in television poetics?.

It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales (2019)
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There is a widespread perception that there has been a collapse in court reporting in England and Wales as local legacy media struggles to survive in times of falling revenues and shifting audiences. However, there is little empirical evidence with w... Read More about It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales.

High-tech business location, transportation accessibility, and implications for sustainability: Evaluating the differences between high-tech specializations using empirical evidence from U.S. booming regions (2019)
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© 2019 Studies on the accessibility needs of high-tech firms often draw on agglomeration economies and creative class assumptions that emphasizes how transit and walkability encourage clustering, knowledge exchange and innovation. As a result, some a... Read More about High-tech business location, transportation accessibility, and implications for sustainability: Evaluating the differences between high-tech specializations using empirical evidence from U.S. booming regions.

Improvisation as a research methodology: Exploring links between filmmakers’ practice and traditions of enquiry across the academy (2019)
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This article concentrates on one form of creative practice, improvisation, considering how it has been used as an experimental method within filmmaking as well as in research enquiry. Drawing on my professional experience in the field of narrative fi... Read More about Improvisation as a research methodology: Exploring links between filmmakers’ practice and traditions of enquiry across the academy.

Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations (2019)
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Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain,... Read More about Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations.

Understanding, capturing, and assessing value in collaborative design research (2019)
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The collection of papers in this special issue respond to a tension between the broadening scope, scale and heterogeneity of collaborative design research, and an ever-growing demand from funders and regulatory organisations for the measurement and b... Read More about Understanding, capturing, and assessing value in collaborative design research.

The missing link between place and productivity? The impact of transit-oriented development on the knowledge and creative economy (2019)
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Emerging research suggests that planners and policy makers should explore the expanded role Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays in promoting innovation and economic growth. TOD station characteristics including accessibility, walkability, densit... Read More about The missing link between place and productivity? The impact of transit-oriented development on the knowledge and creative economy.

Rivers and oceans: Navigating pictorial legacies of enslavement in New Orleans and Bristol (2019)
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This two-part article is a comparative analysis of two late twentieth-century works of art: John T. Scott’s Ocean Song (1990), an abstract, large-scale public art sculpture in New Orleans, Louisiana in the US, and Sold Down the River (1999), a major,... Read More about Rivers and oceans: Navigating pictorial legacies of enslavement in New Orleans and Bristol.

Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks (2018)
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This article outlines current publishing practices in the field of academic filmmaking through a detailed discussion of the development of Screenworks, a peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media. The imperative for academ... Read More about Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks.

The poetics and politics of polyphony: Towards a research method for interactive documentary (2018)
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This article stems from a panel we jointly convened at the i-Docs 2018 Symposium, where we presented a series of provocations with a view to generating a new theoretical framework for i-docs. These provocations were inspired by all aspects of Mikhail... Read More about The poetics and politics of polyphony: Towards a research method for interactive documentary.

Contributing to the creative economy imaginary: universities and the creative sector (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper explores the relationship between the creative economy and universities. As funders, educators and research bodies, universities have a complicated relationship with t... Read More about Contributing to the creative economy imaginary: universities and the creative sector.

I-Docs as intervention: The poetics and politics of polyphony (2018)
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This special issue aims to analyse, reflect and raise questions on approaches to polyphony and complexity within i-docs. It also aims to begin to critically theorise this within the wider context of how media research methods can influence knowledge... Read More about I-Docs as intervention: The poetics and politics of polyphony.

Enacting polyphony: An interview with Florian Thalhofer (2018)
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Florian Thalhofer is a documentary filmmaker and the inventor of Korsakow, a software to create a new form of film and a principle to create a new kind of story. Florian’s system allows video makers to create nonlinear and interactive films and to te... Read More about Enacting polyphony: An interview with Florian Thalhofer.

Polyphony in practice: An interview with Sharon Daniel (2018)
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Media artist Sharon Daniel has been involved with the i-Docs community since its inception—having presented her online documentaries and works in progress at all five i-Docs symposia that have taken place since 2011. We consider her to be a central a... Read More about Polyphony in practice: An interview with Sharon Daniel.

The immersive turn: Hype and hope in the emergence of virtual reality as a nonfiction platform (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article responds to the recent wave of experimentation with Virtual Reality (VR) as a nonfiction platform. Amidst daily announcements of new VR documentary initiatives, and... Read More about The immersive turn: Hype and hope in the emergence of virtual reality as a nonfiction platform.

Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone : Screenworks / Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene (2018)
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This paper develops the research outcomes of the Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone project, drawing out some of its key themes in relation to the online Screenworks volume "Digital Cultures and the Anthropocene".