Prof Lucy Fife Donaldson
Professor
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 7483
- lfd2@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- First floor
- Location
- 99 North Street
- Office hours
- Tuesday 12-1pm
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Biography
Lucy Donaldson's research focuses on film and television style, audiovisual design and 'below-the-line' labour, performance and the body, and videographic criticism. She is the author or co-editor of six books, including her monograph, Ìýfor PalgraveÌýMacmillan’s series:ÌýÌý(Series Editors: Gibbs, John & Douglas Pye), Ìý(Bloomsbury, 2019) Ìý(co-edited with James Walters), and most recently, (Manchester University Press, 2023) (co-edited with Sarah Cardwell & Jonathan Bignell).
Lucy's writing and audiovisual work has appeared in journals including ÌýMovie: A Journal of Film Criticism,ÌýCineAction,ÌýCritical Studies in Television, Film-Philosophy, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media,Ìý The New Soundtrack and [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, as well as in edited volumes on television aesthetics, kinesthetic empathy, monstrosity, film Biopics, screen sound, european crime drama, and the animated film, Toy Story. Ìý
Lucy has received funding from the Carnegie Trust, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Canada and the Leverhulme/British Academy. She is the PI of an AHRC-funded three-year project: '. Her audiovisual essays have been included in Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of Ìý, , and , received an honorable mention in the , , awarded first prize in the Adelio Ferrero Awards 2024 and joint-first in the Marienbad Film Festival Audiovisual competition 2025. Her audiovisual work can be found on .
Lucy is an editor of ,Ìýand co-edited issues 6 (2015) and 10 (2021-22), which featured special dossiers on ‘moments of texture’ in film and television and 'the politics of close analysis, and its object'. She is a general editor of the (Manchester University Press) with Professor Jonathan Bignell and Dr Sarah Cardwell, and an Editorial Advisor for Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies. From 2020-23 she was co-director of the with Dr Philippa Lovatt.
She is part of a videographic collaborative project, which fosters an ethical praxis of audiovisual research, with Colleen Laird (University of British Columbia), Dayna McLeod (Performance and media artist scholar) and Alison Peirse (University of Leeds).
Selected publications
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Open access
Donaldson, L. F., 5 Feb 2025, In: MONSTRUM. 7, 2, p. 41-44 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Donaldson, L. F., Apr 2024, In: Screen. 65, 1, p. 132-141
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Donaldson, L. F., 28 Mar 2024, George Hoyningen-Huene: photography, fashion, film. Brown, S. (ed.). London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, p. 268-305 38 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Donaldson, L. F., 21 Aug 2023, In: [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. 10, 2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Donaldson, L. F., 27 Jun 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Cardwell, S. (Editor), Bignell, J. (Editor) & Donaldson, L. F. (Editor), 26 Apr 2022, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 237 p. (The television series)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Donaldson, L. F. (Editor) & Walters, J. (Editor), Aug 2019, Macmillan. 276 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Donaldson, L. F., Aug 2014, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 203 p. (Palgrave close readings in film and television)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
Donaldson, L. F., 19 Jun 2018, In: Film-Philosophy. 22, 2, p. 203-221 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Donaldson, L. F., 1 Jun 2014, In: Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. 7, p. 1-25
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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