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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"screenplays"”.
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Two Short Horror Screenplays
Screenplays.
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Screenplays : writing, discourse, and process
This thesis argues that screenplays have, throughout their history, been overlooked, undervalued, and misrepresented in ways that obscure them as works of creative writing. Restoring writing and creativity to the definition and analysis of screenplays, against metaphors that reduce them to …
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ANOMALIES ZERO and BRIGHTWOOD (Two Screenplays)
<p><strong>ANOMALIES ZERO</strong></p> <p><strong>SYNOPSIS</strong> : In a world of designer babies, one infant, preordained to become an ultramarathon champion, wins race after race. His rival, a “natural” whose genes have traversed down through generations of ancient tribesmen, faces him head to …
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The Screenplays and Films of Lawrence Kasdan
This doctoral thesis analyses the films and screenplays of the American writer-director Lawrence Kasdan. As the first in-depth study into Kasdan’s career, it represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the work of a filmmaker who has created some of the most influential films of …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… and well-decorated adapter and screenwriter, the screenplays of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are largely overlooked in adaptation studies. This is likely, in part, because her life and career are characterised by the paradox of being an outsider on the inside: whether that be as a European writing in and …
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Exile, Authorship, and 'The Good German': A Reconsideration of the Screenplays and Novels of Emeric Pressburger
… of displacement and exile within Pressburger’s screenplays and novels. The thesis will also utilise both unpublished and unfilmed material and demonstrate that the study of these works that exist only in archives provide a greater insight into the working practises of authors and filmmakers, …
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With the Screenwriter's Pen: An Analysis of the Representation of Gifted Children in the Family Film
… heroes to life go about it?</p> <p>Using the screenplays of <em>Kubo and the Two Strings, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Encanto, </em>and<em> Coraline</em>, I take a deep dive into the portrayal of gifted children. The gifts that these protagonists have range from inherited magic to …
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Rescue Me -- Solitude & Blind Faith -- Pilot
Screenplays
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Good Grief and Other Tales for Television
Screenplays
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Ponyboy
Poetry and screenplays
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Cinema expression : morphology of the contemporary tale
… works. The creative component consists of three screenplays and a short feature film Moonfall. The stories were inspired by actual events. The development of the scripts relied on practitioner- research enquiry, contextualized by the conventions of genre and determined by the exigency of …
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Faulkner, form, and the anxiety of cinematic influence
… 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 nineteen-forties, when Faulkner worked more intensely than ever in the film industry, and consequently devoted less …
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Wronged Women: A Foray into the Wronged Woman's Mind
… ways these can affect women. I wrote four short screenplays about various women at different ages in their lives: middle and high school, graduate school, early motherhood, and middle motherhood. </p>
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Towards the haptic encounter: investigating and theorising a strategy for writing a web-series screenplay, prioritising the sensory
… Adire Girl and Bodunrin. This consists of nine screenplays, a series of test shots and filmed sequences. I focus on developing the haptic encounter as a means of devising storytelling and script development strategies that challenge the voyeurism associated with the web series’ dominant, …
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Transcending the oral roots of screenwriting practices in the Nigerian cinema
… stories are told traditionally, writing short screenplays, adapting the same story and making short films, also exploring ways of telling the same story. As part of my methodology, I employed the reflexive practice approach, by reflecting on each experiment and using the interim findings to …
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The western screenwriter in Japan: screenwriting considerations in transnational cinema.
… I go on to outline how accented Japanese screenplays might be positioned in relation to Japanese national cinema and transnational cinema discourses. I then discuss ‘Japaneseness’ in terms of a related issue: Orientalism. I show how Orientalism remains a trenchant concern for non-Japanese …
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Re-envisioning Literature and History: An Annotated Translation of Two Short Stories by Jin Renshun
… and themes including play scripts and movie screenplays. As a Chinese citizen with Korean heritage, often referred to as Korean-Chinese, or of the Korean-Chinese ethnic minority, Jin Renshun grew up in a family steeped in Korean language and culture. While she writes about a wide range of …
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'Petticoat Sailor' to 'She Crossing': adaptation in process, a writer's reflection on adapting a feature length screenplay into a novel
… by other writers who have turned their screenplays into novels. Aiming to increase understanding of the novelizing process, my thesis addresses these absences. The Commentary discusses the differences and similarities in writing screenplay and writing prose fiction by reflecting on my …
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Dual Auteurs?: The Case Study of Gordon Hessler and Christopher Wicking
… 1972: xxvii-xxviii). Various drafts of the screenplays for the four movies by Hessler and Wicking have been studied and compared, along with various cuts of the films, interviews, contemporary reviews and critical evaluations. In this way, the author discovers the commercial and artistic …
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