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Dafydd Sills-Jones

Lecturer in Media Production
BA (Hons), PgDip, PhD (Aberystwyth) Photograph of Dafydd Sills-Jones.

Contact

Email: dfs@aber.ac.uk
Phone: 01970 628464

Responsibilities

  • Leader of MA Cyfryngau Creadigol (MA Creative Media in Welsh)  


Teaching Areas

Media Production, Television, Documentary 

Research

  • Media Production Studies
  • The European Documentary Tradition
  • Early Interactive Television
  • Contemporary Documentary Film Practice

Staff Publications

(2011, forthcoming / i ddod) Various entries in Directory of World Cinema: Britain, Intellect.

(2011, forthcoming / i ddod) ‘History on UK TV: The Rise of Reconstruction’, yn/in Barg, W., Kilborn, R., Hoffmann, K. (2010) Docu-fictions: Staging and Representing the Real, UVK Verlag Konstanz.

(2010) 'Pwy Yw T.H?', Ffilm Oriel / Gallery Ffilm.

(2010) 'Prosiect Teliesyn'

(2010) ‘The Second World War in Colour : The UK History Documentary Boom and Colour Archive’, Journal of British Cinema and Television. Volume 7, Page 115-130.

 (2007) ‘A Return to the ‘Big’ Discourse : Interviewing History Documentary-Makers’, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA PGN, Vol 1, No 1. 

Presentations

(2010) 'Micro, Meso and Macro: Researching Teliesyn and Finding the Middle Ground in British Broadcasting’, Cynhadledd Cyfrwng.

(2009) 'The History documentary Dip', Televising History Conference, Lincoln University.

(2009) ‘Policy, Passion and Fashion in UK History Documentary’, MeCCSA Annual Conference, 16th January, Bradford.

(2008) The History Documentary Boom: Co-production and Re-enactment, 'Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond', Center for the Study of Film and History, Chicago.

(2007) Channel 4 and the History Documentary Boom, 'Channel 4: the First 25 Years', London.

(2007) A Return to the 'Big' Discourse, 'Symposium: Minding the Gap: Reflections on Media Practice and Theory', Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford.