Professor Tony Dowmunt
Staff details
Tony Dowmunt co-ordinates the AVPhD practice-based doctoral research programme in the Department (AVPhDs application form).
He was a Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, funded by the AHRC, from 2003-6, doing a project investigating autobiographical documentary and the video diary form, in both theory and practice, which he then converted into a practice-based PhD awarded in 2010. He was also Convenor of the MA Screen Documentary in the Department from 1995-2015.
As well as teaching, he worked as a television Producer/Director, and as a community media activist. His more recent work involved innovative arts documentaries. His other research interests have included 'alternative/community media' and the growing field of practice research in the moving image. He was a founder member of the steering group of AVPhD, a training organisation for all those involved in audio-visual practice/research doctorates.
Publications
Book
The Alternative Media Handbook
Dowmunt, Tony; Coyer, K. and Fountain, A.. 2007. The Alternative Media Handbook. Routledge. ISBN 9780415359658
Book Section
Will it harm the sheep? Developments and disputes in central Australian indigenous media
Dowmunt, Tony. 2015. Will it harm the sheep? Developments and disputes in central Australian indigenous media. In: Chris Atton, ed. The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. June 1st 2015: Taylor & Francis, pp. 469-480. ISBN 978-0-415-64404-4
Article
Autobiographical documentary – the ‘seer and the seen’
Dowmunt, Tony. 2013. Autobiographical documentary – the ‘seer and the seen’. Studies in Documentary Film, 7(3), pp. 263-277. ISSN 1750-3280
An Invigorating Shake?
Dowmunt, Tony. 2010. An Invigorating Shake? IM e-journal(5),
Waves of potentiality: Some thoughts on database narratives and the digital dissemination of audio-visual practice research
Dowmunt, Tony. 2007. Waves of potentiality: Some thoughts on database narratives and the digital dissemination of audio-visual practice research. Journal of Media Practice, 8(1), pp. 39-48. ISSN 14682753
First Impressions/Video Confession
Dowmunt, Tony. 2005. First Impressions/Video Confession. Life Writing, 2(2), pp. 169-185. ISSN 14484528
Film/Video
A WHITED SEPULCHRE
Tony, Dowmunt. 2010. A WHITED SEPULCHRE.
A Whited Sepulchre
Dowmunt, Tony. 2007. A Whited Sepulchre.
A Whited Sepulchre
Dowmunt, Tony and UNSPECIFIED. 2007. A Whited Sepulchre.
Project
Satellite Dreaming - Revisited
Tony, Dowmunt. 2014. Satellite Dreaming - Revisited.
Thesis
A Whited Sepulchre: Autobiography and video diaries in ‘post-documentary’ culture
Dowmunt, Tony. 2010. A Whited Sepulchre: Autobiography and video diaries in ‘post-documentary’ culture. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
