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Film: On the Outside (2019)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2019). Film: On the Outside. [Film]

On the Outside, is the outcome of an educational film project that was a collaboration with women who were serving sentences in HMP Polmont.
The project was undertaken in two parts. The first part ran inside the prison over a period of three months,... Read More about Film: On the Outside.

Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018. 24 October 2018

Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival
Screened during the Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition in the South Bank Centre, at a spoken word event as part of the London Literature Festival.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131... Read More about Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018.

From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lam, L. (2018, June). From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree. Paper presented at International Vampire Film and Arts Festival

After the glut of YA novels featuring vampires after Twilight, vampires are currently back in the coffin and publishers are still largely avoiding novels that feature them. Paranormal romance has waned, but in this paper, I argue that the love intere... Read More about From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree.

Representing Scottish Communities on Screen (2017)
Book Chapter
Scott, A. (2017). Representing Scottish Communities on Screen. In S. Malik, C. Chapain, & R. Comunian (Eds.), Community Filmmaking : Diversity, Practices and Places (60-75). Routledge

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Film: And Violet, Official Selection, Arizona International Film Festival, April 27, 2017 (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. Film: And Violet, Official Selection, Arizona International Film Festival, April 27, 2017. Exhibited at Tucson, Arizona. 19 April 2017 - 30 April 2017

And Violet screened on 27th April at the 26th Arizona International Film Festival, the longest running film festival in Arizona, at The Screening Room, Downtown Tucson.

Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017) (2017)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2017). Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017). Punk and Post Punk, 6(1), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.6.1.157_7

This interview was conducted over Skype on 26 March 2017. I contacted Tim Irwin for an interview with two main goals in mind. First, I was hoping for insight into his new film about Jawbreaker, Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017), and se... Read More about Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017).

Film: And Violet (2017)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2017). Film: And Violet. [Film]

A coming of age drama about the interwoven and unravelling lives of teenage daughter Violet, her adoptive Mum and her birth Mum.
When Violet and her adoptive mum visit a small Scottish town one summer, they unexpectedly run into Violet’s estranged b... Read More about Film: And Violet.

Between the Cracks: Theme, Screenwriting and Visual Structure (2016)
Thesis
Crawford, D. N. Between the Cracks: Theme, Screenwriting and Visual Structure. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453033

This research explores the manual approach to screenwriting and finds that the element of theme is not examined with the same analytical focus as other primary elements, plot, character and story. Its properties remain mysterious and discussion of it... Read More about Between the Cracks: Theme, Screenwriting and Visual Structure.

I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects. (2015)
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015). I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects. In Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media (505-516). Routledge

This chapter examines community media projects in Scotland as social processes that nurture knowledge through participation in production. A visual and media anthropology framework (Ginsburg, 2005) with an emphasis on the social context of media prod... Read More about I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects..

Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Artt, S. (2014, August). Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin. Paper presented at Becoming Scotland

In 'On the Melancholic Imaginary' Julia Kristeva notes that epochs of crisis are especially prone to black humour and melancholy: "In times of crisis... melancholy imposes itself, lays down its archaeology, produces its representations and its knowle... Read More about Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin..

"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?".