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An annotated bibliography for screen production researchers
Submitted by Leo Berkeley on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 10:27When I started my PhD a couple of years ago, everyone told me that part of the task was to do a literature review and find out what other people had written about the field I was researching, which is the screen production process. I had a lot of trouble finding research, reflection, theorising of any kind that seemed closely connected to what I was doing.
Geuens, J-P. (2000). Film Production Theory.
Submitted by Leo Berkeley on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 10:41Jean-Pierre Geuens has written one of very few books that attempt to relate the practical complexities and detail of the film production process to a significant body of contemporary cultural theory and film history.
Bell, D. (2006). Creative film and media practice as research: In pursuit of that obscure object of knowledge.
Submitted by Leo Berkeley on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 10:34This article provides an excellent discussion of practice-based research in relation to the creative arts in general and screen production in particular. Bell discusses the history of screen production as a form of academic research, the epistemological problems encountered in attempts to legitimize this practice within the academic field and suggestions for addressing these problems.
Writing for the Screen: Beyond The Gospel Of Story
Submitted by Leo Berkeley on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 06:06Given my research, which has a focus on improvisation and where I made a short feature without a script (just a three page outline), I found this article by Kathryn Millard very worthwhile.
Public Comment on 'SCREEN AUSTRALIA BILL'
Submitted by Leo Berkeley on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 03:32Josko Petkovic, former Aspera president, made the following public comment on the federal government's proposed Screen Australia Bill, which is designed to combine the FFC, Film Australia and the Australian Film Commission in the one organisation.
The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts,
and
Mr Peter Young
Assistant Secretary
Film and Creative Industries Branch
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Dear Minister
