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Julia Knight is a Professor of Moving Image at the University of Sunderland, where she is also an Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies (CRMCS). She is a founding co-editor of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, which was set up in 1995 and is published by Sage.
In the 1980s she worked in the UK independent film and video sector as Co-Manager of Albany Video Distribution and as a Commissioning Editor for Independent Media magazine. Since entering academia, she has taught and published on a number of areas in film and cinema, but her recent research has drawn on her experience of working in the independent sector, addressing artists’ and independent moving image distribution, promotion, exhibition and archiving. This research has been facilitated by a series of related AHRC funded research projects, which have resulted in a number of journal articles and conference papers, as well as a major book, Reaching Audiences: Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image (Intellect 2011), co-authored with research fellow Peter Thomas.
As part of that research, Julia also set up (with Peter Thomas) the Film & Video Distribution Database (http://fv-distribution-database.ac.uk), which explores the histories of the key distributors and promoters of British artists’/independent film and video, namely: the London Film-makers’ Co-op, The Other Cinema, LVA/London Electronic Arts, Cinema of Women, Circles, Film and Video Umbrella, Albany Video Distribution, Cinenova and Lux. The database makes available archival documents from the organisations (and their funders) and makes the material navigable via narrative chronologies. This is an ongoing project, with further documents being added on a regular basis.
Websites:
http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/research-staff/julia-knight/
http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/projects-and-collaborations/julia-knight/
http://alt-fv-distribution.net
In the 1980s she worked in the UK independent film and video sector as Co-Manager of Albany Video Distribution and as a Commissioning Editor for Independent Media magazine. Since entering academia, she has taught and published on a number of areas in film and cinema, but her recent research has drawn on her experience of working in the independent sector, addressing artists’ and independent moving image distribution, promotion, exhibition and archiving. This research has been facilitated by a series of related AHRC funded research projects, which have resulted in a number of journal articles and conference papers, as well as a major book, Reaching Audiences: Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image (Intellect 2011), co-authored with research fellow Peter Thomas.
As part of that research, Julia also set up (with Peter Thomas) the Film & Video Distribution Database (http://fv-distribution-database.ac.uk), which explores the histories of the key distributors and promoters of British artists’/independent film and video, namely: the London Film-makers’ Co-op, The Other Cinema, LVA/London Electronic Arts, Cinema of Women, Circles, Film and Video Umbrella, Albany Video Distribution, Cinenova and Lux. The database makes available archival documents from the organisations (and their funders) and makes the material navigable via narrative chronologies. This is an ongoing project, with further documents being added on a regular basis.
Websites:
http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/research-staff/julia-knight/
http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/projects-and-collaborations/julia-knight/
http://alt-fv-distribution.net