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Geoffrey Cox is a Senior lecturer in Music and a filmmaker and composer of both acoustic and electronic music with a focus on its application to documentary film sound. This has resulted in a number of solo and collaborative film projects: Cider Makers (Marley and Cox, 2007), No Escape (Cox, 2009), A Film About Nice (Marley and Cox, 2010) and Tree People (Cox, 2014). He has recently finished working with Marley on Mill Study (2017), a short film about a working textile mill in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, which receives its overseas premiere at Ethnograflm, Paris in April 2018. He has published articles in The Soundtrack, The New Soundtrack and Contemporary Music Review on the contextual underpinning of his work. His most recent Organised Sound article (2017) links the pioneering approach to sound of pre-WWII British documentary filmmakers, with Pierre Schaeffers musique concrete. John Corner is Visiting Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds and Professor Emeritus of the University of Liverpool. He has published widely since the 1970s in international journals and in books with aspects of documentary history and form a regular theme alongside theories of media power and the forms of political mediation. Edited collections relevant to this book include Documentary and the Mass Media (1986) and the co-edited New Challenges for Documentary (second edition, 2005). His monographs include The Art of Record (1996) and more recently Theorising Media (2011) and the co-authored Political Culture and Media Genre (2012).