Ethics in Screenwriting: New Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Steven Maras (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ethics in Screenwriting: New Perspectives is a book that breaks new ground by forging a link between screenwriting research and a burgeoning interest in film, media, and narrative ethics. Going beyond the orthodox discussion of morality of film and television, the collection focuses on ethics in screenwriting. Building on a new wave of screenwriting research, as well as a ‘turn to ethics’ in humanities and media studies scholarship, this title forms a bridge between these areas in a unique analysis of a key area of media practice. Each essay goes beyond the general discussion of ethics and media to engage with specific aspects of screenwriting or scripting. Written for readers interested in questions of ethics as well as screenwriting, the collection offers new perspectives on ethical questions associated with Writers and their Production Environment; Actuality and History; and Character and Narrative.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Ethics Beyond the Code....Pages 1-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Concept of ‘Double Storytelling’ in Danish Public Service TV Drama Production....Pages 33-54
Ethics, Style and Story in Indigenous Screenwriting: Warwick Thornton in Interview....Pages 55-76
On Morals, Ethics and Screenwriting: An Interview with Jimmy McGovern....Pages 77-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
ANZAC Girls: An Ethical Auto-analysis....Pages 99-123
The Ethics of Actuality in the Scripting of Enrique Rosas’s The Gray Automobile ....Pages 125-145
Blurring Boundaries, Transmedia Storytelling and the Ethics of C. S. Peirce....Pages 147-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Doubled Ethics and Narrative Progression in The Wire ....Pages 179-196
Writing from the Mouth of Shadows: Creativity as Ethics in the Screenwriting of Jean-Claude Carrière....Pages 197-216
Screenwriting as Dialogic Ethics After Animal Kingdom ....Pages 217-230
Ethics, Representations and Judgement....Pages 231-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-263

✦ Subjects

Screenwriting;Ethics