A Companion to American Indie Film
- Submitting institution
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Brunel University London
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 020-113800-4629
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1002/9781118758359
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- ISBN
- 9781118758359
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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1 - Film & TV
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- A Companion to American Indie Film is a substantial, 240,000-word edited volume, curated by King to provide a body of writing more focused than usual for such collections. It contains original, commissioned essays from a mix of distinguished film scholars and emerging voices in the field. It has a unique focus for such collections on what is signified by the term ‘indie’ as opposed to broader uses of ‘independent’ in this field. Central to the book is an understanding of indie as a specific film culture, an issue with which the collection begins and that informs many subsequent chapters. In addition to his role as editor, King is sole author of the introduction (What Indie Isn’t… Mapping the Indie Field) and Chapter 3: Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots, the first work to examine connections between the American indie field and notions of the organic, including its roots, form and content, distribution and exhibition, and understandings of its potential effects on views.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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