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Basically a Start up guide for Film Directing (For Dummies like me)... I have simplified the terms and other stuffs so it will be easy for everyone to learn about the wonders of Filmmaking
This article reflects on the notion of good and bad characters in a fictional world. The study is done from a humanistic perspective and considers the poetic proposals of Juan José García-Noblejas (1982) and Paul Ricoeur (1987). The paper... more
This paper uses P. Ricoeur’s studies on the Poetics, and his notion of "refiguration" as developed in the work of Juan José García-Noblejas, under the scope of the Aristotelian doctrine. It suggests that the “first writing” of a... more
Between 2007 and 2012 more than 100 new books on screenwriting have been accessioned to the United States Library of Congress. The present work reviews 68 of these books and another 27 manuals on screenwriting published since 1979, the... more
In this study we develop an empirical model to explain failure rates of new television series. Specifically, we test the ability of three factors to predict the success of new dramatic series appearing on 31 cable networks over the last... more
Network Text Analysis (NTA) involves the creation of networks of words and/or concepts from linguistic data. Its key insight is that the position of words and concepts in a text network provides vital clues to the central and underlying... more
This thesis investigates how the interiority of emotion and overarching premise in literature is visualised in the novel to film adaptation process. It specifically looks at the varied collaborative stages of filmmaking - from... more
This article [working paper] presents a list of 24 key `open’ problems in the domain of movie screenwriting for discussion, further research, and ideally, potential solutions by academic researchers in the field of movie screenwriting,... more
Much work remains to be done to develop a historical-critical integrated knowledge of the show business of the twentieth century capable of considering cinema and stage as the two main fields of a single area of artistic creation. The... more
“We are not HBO, We are Television”: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Group Writing of the Series The First Republic This article focuses on the efforts of the Czech public service television (Česká Televize, hereafter ČT) to compete... more
The Hollywood Golden Age was a revolutionary moment in the history of cinema and is pivotal to understanding the historical passage of a peculiar new art form-screenwriting. This early film period, from the Tens to the Sixties, was... more
In the wake of a recent essay on the theory of screenwriting (S. Maras, Screenwriting. History, Theory and Practice. London-New York: Wallflower Press, 2009), questions concerning the debate on the nature, the regulations and the goals of... more
The topic of the article is the development of so-called technical screenplays in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1954. Using statistical analyses of technical screenplays, we have been able to investigate the development of this type of... more
The role of a screenwriter in an adaptation is not just to condense and capture the essence of the novel; s/he writes for many readers. The role of the cinematographer is not just to frame the image and get the exposure right; s/he... more
An introduction which presents the contents of the monographical issue of the Journal Comunicazioni Sociali, that presents papers coming from the Yearly Congress, held in Milan in 2018, of the Screenwriting Research Network
In this study we develop an empirical model to explain failure rates of new television series. Specifically, we test the ability of three factors to predict the success of new dramatic series appearing on 31 cable networks over the last... more
Tématem disertační práce je technický scénář v Československu po druhé světové válce. Autor práce zkoumá proměny technických scénářů ve vztahu ke změnám organizace produkce a dramaturgie filmu. V současné době má autor zmapovány všechny... more
This paper examines the two questions of: (a) Can computers be creative? and (b) Can algorithmic-computational-creativity teach screenwriting students about human creativity? The standard definition of creativity is adopted here (Runco &... more
The aim of the present study was to investigate how the impermanence of contract work affects working lives, self-perceptions and the career strategies of Swedish screenwriters of finding and keeping work. Furthermore, it also explored... more
The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel... more
I detta arbete undersöker jag hur samtida manusförfattares arbetsförutsättningar ser ut i Sverige, vad gäller deras arbetsförhållanden, utbildning, men framförallt hur de uppfattar sin roll som manusförfattare (enskilt och i relation till... more
An interview with Ian W. Macdonald about screenwriting studies.
The topic of this paper relates to author's dissertation research. Early 1950s film production in Czechoslovakia changed because of transformation of dramaturgy mode and instalation of film production standards from USSR. These standards... more
With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners and viewers offered by the 360-degree... more
Despite the growing research interest in the transnational nature of the Arab World’s television industry, screenwriting in the Arab World has received little academic attention. Moreover, while the media plays a major role in shaping the... more
With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners and viewers offered by the 360-degree... more
Příspěvek je shrnutím dílčí kapitoly disertační práce, ve které se věnuji technickým scénářům dlouhých hraných filmů v Československu v letech 1945–1962. Ve své disertační práci popisuji okolnosti institucionalizace technických scénářů po... more
A semantic network graph of the pilot episode of Eric Ellis Overmeyer & Michael Connelley's "Bosch", an Amazon Original series.
This chapter explores ‘essence’ and ‘originality’ in screenwriting adaptation practice. It investigates the ‘translation’ of a source text into a new form, and argues for creativity and risk-taking in order to produce original work. Case... more
An Introduction to the essays of the Journal, that were presented in the International Conference of the Screenwriting Research Network, held in Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in September 2018.
` Abstract`Multimedia applications are gaining popularity over smart devices. + haring and using multimedia contents among multiple devices is a hot issue in +-screen environment. In this paper, we are going to investigate how the same... more
The Redakteur, the commissioning editor in TV fiction, has frequently been criticized in current public and industry-internal discourse on ‘quality’ series and the supposed lack of them in Germany. This article takes a closer look at this... more
We extract textual and content data from the pilot episode scripts of 181 new, dramatic television series and use it to predict the 18-49 demo ratings for the first five episodes of the series' first seasons. As expected, we find that the... more
Em setembro de 2018, a 11.ª edição da Screenwriting Research Network Conference teve lugar na Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore de Milão. Entres as diversas atividades de pré-conferência e conferência, salientam-se tendências como o... more