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“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. Paper presented at MeCCSA (Media, Communication & Cultural Studies) Annual Conference, University of Bournemouth (2014)

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production.

How can media production techniques enhance the participation and representation of marginalized groups and communities? In this paper I will draw on my resea... Read More about “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production..

"What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?" (2014)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2014). "What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?". Film and Philosophy, 18, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.5840/filmphil2014188

Advocates of blurred boundaries between fiction and nonfiction film identify shared narrative and representational practices to justify scepticism about nonfiction film’s ability to depict and convey views about reality. Such arguments fail because t... Read More about "What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?".

Time Machine. In The Hand that Feeds (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Holmes, P. Time Machine. In The Hand that Feeds. Exhibited at One Cube or Two, Glasgow, Scotland. 13 December 2013 - 20 December 2013

This group exhibition featured video work "Time Machine".

Curated by Robert Singer.

Raploch Stories: continuity and innovation for television documentary production (2013)
Thesis
Scott, A. J. Raploch Stories: continuity and innovation for television documentary production. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7245

This thesis provides an ‘insider account’ of the process of making contemporary ‘observational’ documentaries from within the broadcasting industry. Raploch Stories (2002) and Raploch Stories Revisited (2007) are seven television documentary program... Read More about Raploch Stories: continuity and innovation for television documentary production.

Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking (2013)
Thesis
Boateng, K. Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6055

The subject of this study is Sub-Sahara Africa Anglophone Video-moviemaking and the research process is an empirical enquiry into how this contemporary cultural industry has emerged in the region, bringing with it a paradigmatic shift in the concept... Read More about Anglophone Sub-Sahara Africa video industry : a new paradigmatic practice of moviemaking.

“In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s (2013)
Thesis
Ramirez, G. “In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6266

In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, experimental and independent cinema received a considerable amount of support from the U.S. federal government through the American Film Institute (AFI), and from private philanthropies and arts institutions such as... Read More about “In the best interests of the country”: the American film institute and philanthropic support for American experimental and independent cinema in the 1960s.

“I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2013, January). “I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project. Paper presented at MeCCSAAnnual Conference,Ulster University(2013)

What are the techniques of production that are used in local, small-scale media? How does the production process mediate identity and place, and how are these techniques reflected in locally produced media? And what can local representations of place... Read More about “I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project.

“You play your part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’ (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2012, November). “You play your part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’. Paper presented at Media Discourse Group, MeCCSA PG Network, 2012, De Montfort University,

Media Discourse Group, MeCCSA PG Network, 2012, De Montfort University, “You Play Your Part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’

‘You Play Your Part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to... Read More about “You play your part: an ethnographically informed, practice led approach to documentary knowledge.’.

Film: Tree of Tule (2012)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2012). Film: Tree of Tule. [Film]

While on his travels, an adventurous young boy meets a magical ancient tree and he embarks on a quest across Mexico to help the tree find a new home. Duration: 10’10”, Director & Producer: Paul Gray

“We film therefore we are: media made in communities - process, practice & participation.” (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2012, January). “We film therefore we are: media made in communities - process, practice & participation.”. Paper presented at MeCCSA Annual Conference, 2012, University of Bedfordshire

MeCCSA Annual Conference, University of Bedfordshire. “We film therefore we are: Media made in communities - process, practice & participation.”

This paper will discuss practice-based methodology, as used within research into the production proces... Read More about “We film therefore we are: media made in communities - process, practice & participation.”.

“I film therefore I am: process, practice & participation in community media.” (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2011, November). “I film therefore I am: process, practice & participation in community media.”. Paper presented at Knowledge/Culture/Social Change, University of Western Sydney

Knowledge, Culture, Social Change, University of Western Sydney, “I Film Therefore I am: Process, Practice & Participation in Community Media.”

The paper seeks to interrogate how community media channels the situated-ness of knowledge and identity... Read More about “I film therefore I am: process, practice & participation in community media.”.

“A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June). “A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship

I examine the underlying, and somewhat incompatible principles of hermeneutic, legal (UK), and empirical definitions of authorship. In this analysis I consider how the distinction between film as business and film as artistic expression, a distinctio... Read More about “A Business Pure and Simple:” Film, Copyright, and Problems for Defining Authorship..

Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2011, June). Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary. Paper presented at Animated Realities Conference

The assertion that certain means of cinematic representation in documentary filmmaking, such as animation, blurs boundaries between fact and fiction rests on misconceptions about the terms ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ and the relationship between reality and... Read More about Drawing a Clear Line between Fact and Fiction in the Animated Documentary..