Mr Thomas Kirby's Outputs (3)

A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary (2023)
Book Chapter
Kirby, T. A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary. In The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking: The Art of Fact (171-188). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of... Read More about A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary.

Fishermen to architects : how is new immersive technology shaping the 21st century documentary? (2016)
Journal Article
Kirby, T. (2016). Fishermen to architects : how is new immersive technology shaping the 21st century documentary?. Cineaction!, 97, 60-66

This paper will explore technological developments in current documentary production,
assessing how these are individually and comparatively immersing the audience in the film
and the story and creating spectacle. The paper will track how spectacle... Read More about Fishermen to architects : how is new immersive technology shaping the 21st century documentary?.

Documentary spectacle and immediacy (2015)
Journal Article
Kirby, T. (2015). Documentary spectacle and immediacy

In documentary, spectacle is all about immediacy rather than aesthetic quality. New technologies for documentary production have led to immediacy for an audience.

It is a widely recognised fact that we are living in a world that demands everythi... Read More about Documentary spectacle and immediacy.