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From ‘video essay’ to ‘video monograph’? Indy Vinyl as academic book

Author(s): Garwood, Ian
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Sarah Barrow argues that the video essay provides a ‘viable alternative to the academic book’. This article explores that claim, considering how a video essay-based project can pursue a single topic in the man-ner of a monograph. The case study is Indy Vinyl, my collection of video essays and writing about vinyl records in American Independ-ent Cinema. I argue that an approach informed by traditional schol-arly values should be augmented by more exploratory thinking, when moving from written to practice-based forms of film criticism.


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Garwood, Ian: From ‘video essay’ to ‘video monograph’? Indy Vinyl as academic book. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 9 (2020-06-15), Nr. 1, S. 5-29. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14306.
@ARTICLE{Garwood2020-06-15,
 author = {Garwood, Ian},
 title = {From ‘video essay’ to ‘video monograph’? Indy Vinyl as academic book},
 year = 2020-06-15,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14306}",
 volume = 9,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {5--29},
}
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