Screen Production Research Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry [Paperback]

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks likeand 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 genresincluding screenwriting, fiction filmmaking, documentary production and mobile media practicethe 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.

The collection of essays is comprehensive and, maybe even more importantly, it provides a starting point from which creative and academic discourse can take place. & encourages students and scholars to be open-minded about the possibilities of screen production research. (Ashley R. Spillane, Film Matters, Vol. 09 (3), 2018)

Craig Batty is Associate Professor of Screenwriting at RMIT University, 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) and Movies That Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonists 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 UKs Arts and Humanities Research Council, and has held l3+