Indy Vinyl: Records in American Independent Cinema: 1987 to 2018
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34A-09049
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output
- Open access status
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- Month
- December
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The Indy Vinyl project is a multi-component output representing five years of sustained research effort. The project’s self-reflexive exploration of the value of different modes of critical expression within film studies required in-depth investigation of two interlinked themes – American Independent Cinema and audiovisual screen criticism as an academic practice – from a variety of different perspectives. This extended process of creative investigation necessitated the development of a bespoke, curated website, wherein to work through the complexities of, synthesise, and express, the project’s critical insights in a long-form output (components include seven videoessays, article, book chapter, and social media posts).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Statement on Research Process All of the elements of this multi-component output revolve around two key research questions: 1 how has the recurring depiction of vinyl contributed to American Independent Cinema’s identity as a distinctive film movement? 2 what are the possibilities and limitations as academic film research adopts audiovisual forms borne from online film culture? The ‘Research Questions’ section of the project website explains how the different components interact with these questions and there is further explanation in the NECSUS article, ‘From ‘Video Essay’ to ‘Video Monograph’?: Indy Vinyl as Academic Book’. The homepage of the website offers guidance on how to sequence the reading/viewing of the different outputs. As the NECSUS article clarifies, the multi-component nature of the research is integral to the project, as it is centrally concerned with testing the academic value of different forms of written and audiovisual scholarship. Nearly all of the material accessible through the project website counts as output. The only purely contextual information is found within the writing on the website that recognises the critical responses to particular video essays (e.g. nomination for awards, inclusion in ‘best of’ annual polls). Research process: the viewer/reader is encouraged first to read the ‘Research Questions’ website page, NECSUS article and book chapter (‘Vinyl Noise and Narrative in CD-Era Indiewood’). These establish the research questions, methodologies and creative and intellectual context upon which the project draws. Research insights: the website presents the outcomes of the research. Where the findings of the research are not articulated explicitly within the individual output itself (e.g. the videos contained in the ‘Supercuts’ section), these are clarified in the NECSUS article. Dissemination: all of the outputs were shared publicly between 2016 and 2020 (dates given on the website). The website was first published in December 2019.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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