The role of fiction in screenwriting (as) research

Batty, C; Baker, DJ

The role of fiction in screenwriting (as) research

Batty, C

Baker, DJ

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Citation:: TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, 2018, 48 pp. 1 - 10
Issue Date:: 2018

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dc.contributor.author	Batty, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-4763	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Baker, DJ	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, 2018, 48 pp. 1 - 10	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1327-9556	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128724
dc.description.abstract	In this article the authors discuss the role of fiction in screenwriting practice research. The screenplays included in the ‘Screenplays as Research Artefacts’ special issue of TEXT present a range of stories, worlds, characters, visual scenarios and dialogue exchanges that function as vessels for theories and ideas. These eleven screenplays all use creative practice approaches to research across a wide variety of discourses. All of the works embrace fiction as an important method to convey their respective critical concerns, which, the authors argue, evidences an emerging hallmark of screenwriting (as) research when compared with associated forms in the creative writing and screen production disciplines: fiction as a staple of its storytelling, creative practice and research methodology. The authors suggest that the use of fiction to perform research and present findings illuminates the ways that knowledge can be affective, not merely textual or verbal, something that is exemplified in the selected screenplays.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs	en_US
dc.title	The role of fiction in screenwriting (as) research	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	48	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
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In this article the authors discuss the role of fiction in screenwriting practice research. The screenplays included in the ‘Screenplays as Research Artefacts’ special issue of TEXT present a range of stories, worlds, characters, visual scenarios and dialogue exchanges that function as vessels for theories and ideas. These eleven screenplays all use creative practice approaches to research across a wide variety of discourses. All of the works embrace fiction as an important method to convey their respective critical concerns, which, the authors argue, evidences an emerging hallmark of screenwriting (as) research when compared with associated forms in the creative writing and screen production disciplines: fiction as a staple of its storytelling, creative practice and research methodology. The authors suggest that the use of fiction to perform research and present findings illuminates the ways that knowledge can be affective, not merely textual or verbal, something that is exemplified in the selected screenplays.

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