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Showing 1 to 20 of 630 for “"Screenwriting"”.
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Voice in Screenwriting: Discovering/Recovering an Australian Voice
… screenwriter’s voice from the perspective of screenwriting as craft, proposing that voice can be understood and described based on its particular characteristics. Voice is understood to be the authorial presence of the screenwriter, whose mind shapes every aspect of the text. This presence is …
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Surfacing: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Screenwriting
Fiction/poetry collection
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The western screenwriter in Japan: screenwriting considerations in transnational cinema.
… being a screenplay that is intended to enhance screenwriting craft in mainstream Japanese cinema and provide new knowledge to transnational cinema and screenwriting research. The critical commentary that accompanies the screenplay takes a dialogic approach in practice-led research to explore how …
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Transcending the oral roots of screenwriting practices in the Nigerian cinema
Nigeria has no developed tradition of screenwriting and films tend to be built on principles and techniques derived from oral heritage. Thus the oral and the performative dominate Nigerian film language. The core research problems and questions of this project revolve around how screenwriting …
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Automating the screenplay : the creative and technical viability of AI in screenwriting.
… of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in screenwriting through the development and evaluation of a custom AI-assisted framework. Employing qualitative research methods, guided by George Kozmetsky’s creative and innovative management loop, the study assesses existing AI-driven screenwriting …
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Parallel Worlds: the Press on Stage and Screen A comparative exploration of television screenwriting and playwriting
This thesis is a creative and comparative investigation into writing for drama and television versus the stage. It comprises two original scripts, which each offer a different treatment for a different medium of the same story: BRIEF LIES, a drama set in the world of the Press in the early 21st …
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It must be love: an exploration of the character arc model in screenwriting practice and theory.
… led research is a study into the contested screenwriting narrative form known as the ‘character arc’. The character arc is a term that refers to the motivational and emotional trajectory of a character through the totality of a given narrative. Through practice I developed an original …
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An exploration of the applicability of Linda Aronson's flashback theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting
… theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting. This practice-based PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of the life and trial of 20th century Scottish medium Helen Duncan, entitled Hellish Nell, and a thesis which reflects the process of writing the script using Linda …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… she worked on and to draw together the fields of screenwriting and adaptation studies. Surveying both existing academic studies in film history, screenwriting and adaptation in Chapter 1 -- as well as publicity materials in Chapter 2 -- reveals that screenwriting in general is on the periphery of …
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Aristotle's poetics in relation to the narrative structure of the screenplay
… has been to trace specific misconceptions of screenwriting theorists that discuss the Poetics in relation to screenwriting narrative techniques. The discussion of these misconceptions has a double aim: firstly, to disengage the Aristotelian narrative system from the classical narrative system …
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A troubled duet.
… is the depiction of emotion within the world of screenwriting. The protagonist’s internal landscape is at the heart of the screenplay, specifically in relation to the theme of family. It visually depicts the protagonist’s emotional world, how it was shaped during childhood, and subsequently how …
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CooperStreet' (original screenplay); and, Into the foreground : an examination of setting in the screenplay
… examining the function of setting within the screenwriting discourse. The screenplay, titled 'Cooper Street', is set in future Perth where rumors of an alien presence threaten to disrupt the state's lucrative mining industry. Setting plays a key role within 'Cooper Street'. Scenes are set …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
… a critique of the manner in which contemporary screenwriting paradigms discipline and control progressive representation. It is my contention that narrative and (most) generic conventions operate as straightening, whitening, and masculinizing devices, so that, even when female/of color/queer …
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Faulkner, form, and the anxiety of cinematic influence
… he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature), screenwriting also constituted a major part of Faulkner s work, and saw him contributing to over fifty screenplays during two decades in Hollywood. What was always a division of labor for the author became especially pronounced in the …
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Canaries
<p>A collection of fictional short stories and screenwriting, dealing with characters who, besieged by sickness, denial, and uncertainty, try desperately to keep their heads above water. These are stories marked by sadness and loss and great hardship, both internally and externally, but more than …
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Bicycle Season
… this thesis from the point of conception on a screenwriting level; analyze the steps along the way as they relate to film production, and conclude at the point of final screening to an audience. Direct feedback from audience members in test screenings will serve as a measurement of achievement …
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Saturday Nights Alone
… first-person narrative prose with conventions of screenwriting to create a voice consistent with its main character, Rick Morgan, who's trying to escape his life as a real estate agent by becoming a screenwriter. As Rick struggles to write a new screenplay he finds it difficult to divorce his …
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Towards the haptic encounter: investigating and theorising a strategy for writing a web-series screenplay, prioritising the sensory
… research PhD is situated in the field of screenwriting practice studies and explores the development of a web series screenplay interweaving the haptic, to propose the concept of the ‘haptic encounter’. It is suggested that the haptic encounter may take place between the viewer and the …
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‘An account and analysis of the culture and practices of screenplay development in the UK’
… thesis also adds to the current debates around screenwriting and the screenplay. In particular, in addition to explicating how those practitioners engaged in the work see the process, this study proposes a new way of looking at the purpose of the screenplay that has hitherto been underplayed.
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