Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry

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Craig Batty, Susan Kerrigan
Springer, Dec 19, 2017 - Performing Arts - 253 pages

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like—and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape. Drawing on the work of international experts as well as case studies from a range of forms and genres—including screenwriting, fiction filmmaking, documentary production and mobile media practice—the book is an essential guide for those interested in the rich relationship between theory and practice. It provides theories, models, tools and best practice examples that students and researchers can follow and expand upon in their own screen production projects.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 A Logical Explanation of Screen Production as MethodLed Research
11
The Specificity of Research in Screen Production
29
Establishing the Terms of Reference of Creative Arts and Media Research
47
Chapter 5 Screenwriting as a Mode of Research and the Screenplay as a Research Artefact
67
Chapter 6 Using PractitionerBased Enquiry PBE to Examine Screen Production as a Form of Creative Practice
84
Chapter 7 Ethnography and Screen Production Research
103
A Case Study in Practice Research Methods
121
Practice as Research Research into Practice
143
Creative Practice Research as a Mode of Documentary Making in Northeast India
161
Using Practice to Research the Intersectional Work of Poetic Documentary
177
The Dialectical Image as Research
195
A PhD Experience
213
Tacit Knowledge and AffectSoft Ethnography and Shared Domains
233
Index
249
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About the author (2017)

Craig Batty is Dean of Research at University of South Australia, Australia. He is author, co-author and editor of numerous books, including Media Writing: A Practical Introduction (2nd ed., 2016), Screenwriters and Screenwriting: Putting Practice into Context (2014), The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft (2012) andMovies That Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonist’s Journey (2011).

Susan Kerrigan is an Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, who specialises in creative practice research methodologies. She is a co-investigator on the Filmmaking Research Network grant, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, and has held Australian Research Council Grants investigating the creative industries. Susan has produced and directed Australian television programs, including Play School.