The Wick Society’s Intervention into Industrial Heritage: Remaking Local Films for Future Historians
- Submitting institution
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Ravensbourne University London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- RS02
- Type
- D - Journal article
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- Title of journal
- International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen
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- First page
- 70
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2046-5602
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://ijosts.ubiquitypress.com/articles/abstract/185/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- 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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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This journal article was submitted to an academic journal as a general submission and was accepted for publication following blind peer-review. The editor decided to include this article in a special issue on new trends in the study of Scottish cinema.
The research question was: can theories of heritage, developed for understanding professional fictional films, help explain a popular tendency in amateur documentary filmmaking?
This journal article has been developed and refined following earlier iterations as a postgraduate dissertation, conference presentations, a short magazine article, and a PhD chapter. While earlier versions of this research were provisional attempts to draw attention towards these intriguingly idiosyncratic archive films, it took a number of years to develop a historical and theoretical framework to explain the cultural value of these amateur documentaries.
This version presents a new introduction which highlights the existence of earlier archival films from this area, as well as summarising recent scholarly publications on the study of amateur film and photography. New primary research is evident in the inclusion of contextual information about television documentary titles and newspaper articles. This information was sourced by personal correspondence, a research trip to a library in Caithness, and using an online newspaper database.
The theoretical framework outlined in this article also incorporates international scholarly debates from diverse fields, including film, leisure, anthropology and heritage studies. This article therefore refines the stylistic analysis evident in previous versions, while also presenting new contextual information and a wider consideration of the theoretical implications of this case study.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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