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Tag: Theory

Critical Viewing: Suburbicon (2017)

This week’s concentration is around spectatorship studies, the implied reader / viewer, and how audience expectations can be met or … More

analysis, clooney, coen, critical, movie, Theory, viewing

Critical Viewing: Annihilation (2018)

This week’s critical viewing comes in the form of Alex Garland’s excellent Annihilation. I only wish that it was showing in … More

critical, movie, sci-fi, Theory, viewing

Critical Viewing: Wind River (2017)

This week’s focus is on critical questions – those questions that are raised during a film that keep you interested … More

analysis, critical, movie, Theory, viewing

Critical Viewing: Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

This week’s focus is on how we can create audience identification with the protagonist of a film. In Goodbye Christopher … More

character, critical, movie, Theory, viewing

Critical Viewing Journal: The Ritual (2017)

This week, we are concentrating on the use of theme and tone within a film, with particular reference to Phil … More

analysis, critical, horror, movies, Theory, viewing

Exploring the duality of a screenplay narrative

The chapter ‘Exploring the duality of a screenplay narrative’ in Craig Batty’s Movies that Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of … More

duality, narrative, Screenplay, Theory, thoughts

Screenwriting Today and Tomorrow

In Steven Price’s A History of the Screenplay, chapter 11, he discusses the ways scripts, or scenarios, or indeed outlines have … More

Discussion, history, screenwriting, Theory

The Art of Screenplays

In Robin Mukherjee’s The Art of Screenplays: A Writer’s Guide, I found the chapter entitled ‘Ideas’ very useful. Making notes of small … More

screenwriting, technique, Theory

Discussion on Auteur Theory

Having read the chapter Auteur Theory in Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice by Steven Maras, here are some thoughts on the subject. … More

auteur, scriptwriting, Theory, thoughts

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