Steve Presence's Outputs (4)

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.

The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990 (2013)
Thesis

This thesis explores radical left-wing documentary produced in Britain since 1990. Despite constituting a lively and diverse part of contemporary British film culture, oppositional documentary has been overlooked by film and media scholars for much o... Read More about The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990.

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.