Media, De Montfort University
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Books
'Finding Birt Acres', Editor and co-author with Deac Rossell and Barry Anthony (forthcoming, publisher TBC).
Journal Articles
'William Friese-Greene and the Art of Collaboration', Early Popular Visual Culture (London: Routledge, commissioned, peer reviewed, forthcoming March 2024)
Other Articles
‘In The Beginning: Cinema's Murky Origin Story’, Sight & Sound, March 2021, vol. 31, no. 2, pp19-20. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/origins-cinema-early-inventors-pioneers
'Twenty years after MOMI, who cares about Britain’s film history?', The Guardian, August 19, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/19/twenty-years-after-momi-who-cares-about-britains-film-history
Book Reviews
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer, Early Popular Visual Culture (6 September 2022): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2022.2110788.
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema by Prof. Ian Christie, for Journal of British Cinema and Television, April 2021, vol. 18, no. 2. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0579
The Kinematograph Theatre Arrives: Part III of The London County Council and the Cinematograph by Tony Fletcher, for the Historical Journal of Radio, Film & Television, vol. 42, No. 1, January 2022, https://doi-org.proxy.library.dmu.ac.uk/10.1080/01439685.2021.2018192
Contributor
Essay 'William Friese-Greene and Me' in, Melanie Kelly (ed.), Opening Up The Magic Box: Friese-Greene and Reflections on Film, (Bristol: Bristol Ideas, 2021) PDF downloadable from https://www.bristolideas.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Film2021-Opening-Up-the-Magic-Box-200pp-A5-SOFT.pdf
Consultant for Deac Rossell, Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896, (New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing/ Indiana Press, 2022)
Entry on William Friese-Greene, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 and online at https://www.oxforddnb.com/))
Entries on William Friese-Greene and John Arthur Roebuck Rudge, Luke McKernan & Stephen Herbert (eds.), Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey (London: BFI, 1996 and online at https://www.victorian-cinema.net)
Blog
Author of the blog William Friese-Greene & Me at https://friesegreene.com/ (Dec 2017 to present) which presents original research on early film history for a broad readership. In Feedspot’s Top 20 Silent Movie Blogs and Websites to Follow in 2019, 2020 & 2021.
FEATURED SPEAKER
July 2019: “Victorian Film Inventor: Friese-Greene”: Invited speaker, Cinema Rediscovered, Watershed, Bristol.
May 2019: “Heroes of Victorian Film: William Friese-Greene & Birt Acres”: Invited speaker, BFI Victorian Film Weekender, BFI Southbank, London.
May 2019: “Whatever Happened at Clovelly Cottage?”: Invited speaker, Study Day, BFI Victorian Film Weekender, BFI Southbank, London.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
September 28 2022: "Thinkering Outside The Box" - presentation at the Practice-Based Research Showcase, De Montfort University. Online at https://youtu.be/gGcg08IYX0A
September 9 2022: "Clickety-Click, Kerclunk Kerclunk, Wudump Wudump: The Sound of Pictures Moving": Doing Experimental Media Archeology conference at the University of Luxembourg.
June 28 2022: "Clickety-Click, Kerclunk Kerclunk, Wudump Wudump: The Sound of Pictures Moving": Interdisciplinary Workshop on Recreative Practices in the Arts and Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester.
May 2021: "The Dangers of Dogma: Untangling William Friese-Greene": Remapping Early British Cinema - A Symposium, Birkbeck, University of London. Online at https://birkbeck.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6faeb123-6558-4623-941d-ad83007dbb61 (1:59:48)
April 2019: “Whatever Happened at Clovelly Cottage?”: The British Silent Film Festival Symposium, King’s College, London. Online at https://youtu.be/s_MA4LQmrYQ
April 2018: “William Friese-Greene and the Art of Collaboration”: The British Silent Film Festival Symposium, King’s College, London. Online at https://youtu.be/dumCY01EoVM
DOMITOR - The International Society for the Study of Early Cinema
AFHRC - Association Française de Recherche sur l’Histoire du Cinéma
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