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Catherine Grant School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex
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Catherine Grant. School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex. Changing Research Environment. Changes in research communication/Open Access publishing/Public engagement Funding issues Impact upon my research. Funding Issues. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Catherine Grant
School of Media, Film and MusicUniversity of Sussex
Changing Research Environment
• Changes in research communication/Open Access publishing/Public engagement
• Funding issues• Impact upon my research
Funding Issues
Research funding allocated on basis of economic/social impact
Demonstration of value critical to ensuring funding
Increase in collaborative, multi/ inter-disciplinary research
Changes in Research Communication, Open Access publishing and Public engagement
“[T]he repressed film culture that gave rise to film studies has returned with a vengeance."•Mark Betz, ‘Little Books’, in Lee Grieveson and Haydee Wasson (eds), Inventing Film Studies (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008), 319-341
Digital Film Studies Timeline• Advent of computer-based, non-linear editing systems, early 1990s• Online Film Indices and Databases: in 1990 Col Needham founds the Internet Movie Database
as a USENET newsgroup; mid 1990s the online Film Index International formed from BFI's offline Summary of Film and Television database.
• CD-Roms e.g. 1992-1999: Virtual Screening Room, a CD-Rom digital textbook. Produced by Henry Jenkins, Janet Murray, Ben Singer and Ellen Draper
• Rapid Growth of the World Wide Web, 1991 onwards, offering space for influential online film studies/criticism curators and salon hosts including, from the 1990s, Fred Camper, Glen W. Norton, and from the 2000s, for example, Steve Erickson & Girish Shambu
• Online film theory education: Daniel Chandler, ‘Notes on the Gaze’, 1995; ‘An Introduction to Genre Theory’, 1997. Also see the work of Sarah Zupko, e.g. PopCultures.com, 1996
• Online Academic Listservs, then Salons, then Journals: Film-Philosophy, 1996; Screening the Past, 1997; Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Media Studies, 1999; JumpCut online, 2001
• DVDs (and their Extras!),1997 Film related blogging 1999+. (Film Studies Blogging: Bordwell/Thompson, 2006;The Bioscope,
• 2007; Film Studies For Free, 2008)• Online moving image archives and video sharing: Internet Archive Moving Image Collection,
1999; Vimeo, 2004;YouTube, 2005
Back to the future ?
• New university presses• The need for a joined up approach• Digital assemblages and where they will
take us…. – Alex Reid, ‘Exposing Assemblages: Unlikely Communities of
Digital Scholarship, Video, and Social Networks’, Enculturation 8 (2010)
