Dr Craig Hight
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Senior Lecturer |
| Qualifications: |
MA PhD Waikato |
| Email: |
hight@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
I.4.16 |
| Contact: |
(07) 838 4466 ext 6214 |
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Research Interests:
Craig's research has been based within documentary theory, addressing aspects of the production, construction and reception of documentary hybrids. His current research focuses on the relationships between digital media technologies and documentary practice, especially the variety of factors shaping online documentary cultures.
In 2010 he received funding from the Marsden Fund for a 3-year project to research 'Playing with reality? Online documentary culture and its users', project UOW1008 (see the Marsden awards page for details)
Selected Publications:
With Dr Jane Roscoe he has co-written a book on mockumentary entitled Faking It: mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality (Manchester University Press).
A follow-up book on television mockumentary series entitled Television Mockumentary: reflexivity, satire anda call to play was published in May 2010.
See Mockumentary: reflexivity, satire and a call to play for more details and other material on mockumentary.
Recent publications include:
Book Chapters
Hight, C. (2008) ‘Mockumentary: a call to play’, in Rethinking Documentary, edited by Wilma de Jong and Thomas Austin , Open University Press, Maidenhead.
Hight, C. (2007) ‘American Splendor in terms of Drama-documentary Form’, in Films and Comic Books, edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich and Matthew P. McAllister, University Press of Mississippi.
Hight, C. and J. Roscoe (2006) ‘Forgotten Silver: a New Zealand television hoax and its audience’, in F Is for Phony. Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing (eds.) Alex Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, Visible Evidence Series, Minnesota University Press, pp171-186.
Roscoe, J., and C. Hight (2005) ‘Mock-documentary schema’, reprinted in New Challenges for Documentary, second edition, (eds.) John Corner and Alan Rosenthal, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp 230-241.
Hight, C. (2003) ‘ “It isn’t always Shakespeare, but it’s genuine”: Cinema’s commentary on documentary hybrids’, chapter in Understanding Reality Television, edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn, Routledge, London, pp 373-405.
Journal articles
Hight, C. (2008) ‘The Field of Digital Documentary: A Challenge to Documentary Theorists’, Studies in Documentary Film, Volume 2, Number 1, pp 3-7.
Hight, C. (2008) ‘Primetime Digital Documentary Animation: The Photographic and Graphic within Play’, Studies in Documentary Film, Volume 2, Number 1, pp 9-31.
Hight, C. (2008) ‘El falso documental multiplataforma: un llamamiento lúdico’ (‘Cross-platform mockumentary: a call to play’), Archivos de la Filmoteca, special issue on documentary titled ‘Después de lo real’ (‘After the Real’), Oct/Feb, Number 57-58, pp 176-195.
Hight, C. and C. Coleborne (2006) ‘Robert Winston’s Superhuman: spectacle, surveillance and patient narrative’, The Journal of Health Psychology, Volume 11, Number 2.
Hight, C. (2005) ‘ “Making of” documentaries on DVD: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Special Editions’, The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television, Number 56, Fall.
Hight, C. (2001) ‘Webcam sites: the documentary genre moves online?’, Media International Australia, Number 100, August 2001.
Research Publications:
You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Craig Hight General Interests:
Craig is on the advisory panel for the Intellect Journal Studies in Documentary Film. He is also serving as the reviews editor for the journal.
Craig is the Department's webmaster - he has co-designed this site, and maintains it in coordination with the other staff. See this website's FAQs page for more details. Please email him for any feedback / problems relating to Screen and Media Online.
He also maintains the website for the National Association of Media Educators (N.A.M.E.) - see www.name.org.nz
He has been involved in the iWaikato portal project, including overseeing the development of MyPapers, and the design and implementation of FASS portlets within iWaikato.
Expertise:
Craig has expertise in supervising a number of topics within media studies, including
- documentary practice, including mockumentary, animated documentary, drama-documentary, nature documentry, documentary hybrids (reality TV, reality gameshows, docu-soaps, makeover programmes, situation documentaries)
- software studies and digital media practice
- audience theory and audience research
- various topics within digital media, including social media and games
- comics and other graphic media
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