Rate My Professor Craig Hight

Hight has produced significant scholarly works, including books such as Faking it: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality with Jane Roscoe (Manchester University Press, 2001), Television mockumentary: Reflexivity, satire and a call to play (Manchester University Press, 2010), New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses co-edited with Kate Nash and Catherine Summerhayes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Fans, Blockbusterisation, and the Transformation of Cinematic Desire: Global Receptions of the Hobbit Film Trilogy with Charles H. Michelle et al. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Software Literacy Education and Beyond with Eleni Khoo et al. (Routledge, 2017). Recent publications feature The Elephant’s Leg: Adventures in the Creative Industries and The Elephant's Leg II: Creativity in Action with Mark Minichiello (2021 and 2025). Since December 2017, he has co-edited Studies in Documentary Film with Professor Kate Nash. Notable projects encompass the Media Doctor collaboration with Dr. Amanda Wilson to rate health news credibility and combat misinformation; the Cinema Industry Research Network with Dr. Simon Weaving to future-proof cinema amid streaming shifts; a Marsden-funded study on online documentary culture (2010-2014); and a TLRI grant on software literacy resulting in the 2017 monograph. His contributions aid in navigating fake news, health misinformation, and evolving media landscapes.