Professor Tony Dowmunt

Tony’s work has involved arts documentaries, alternative/community media and practice research in the moving image.

Staff details

Position

Emeritus Professor

School

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

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Tony Dowmunt is currently an Emeritus Professor, co-supervising Practice Research PhDs, mostly in the field of radical and 'alternative' documentary practices. He is currently working on a about Australian Indigenous Media.

He also co-directs the which is preserving community-made videos from the 1970s and '80s, to enable them to be used as a resource for contemporary debates and activism.

Tony was Convenor of the MA Screen Documentary in the Department from 1995-2015, and helped develop the AVPhD practice-based doctoral research programme. 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.

As well as teaching, he has 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' (both in the UK and Indigenous Australia) and the growing field of practice research in the moving image. He was a founding member of the steering group of , a training organisation for all those involved in audio-visual practice/research doctorates.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Dowmunt, Tony; Coyer, K. and Fountain, A.. 2007. The Alternative Media Handbook. Routledge. ISBN 9780415359658

Book Section

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

Dowmunt, Tony. 2013. Autobiographical documentary 鈥� the 鈥榮eer and the seen鈥�. Studies in Documentary Film, 7(3), pp. 263-277. ISSN 1750-3280
Dowmunt, Tony. 2010. An Invigorating Shake? IM e-journal(5),
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