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The Protagonist's Journey An Introduction to Character-Driven Screenwriting and Storytelling
Character drives plot. Based on this principle, this book walks aspiring writers through the fascinating world of character-driven screenwriting....
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The Plural Protagonist. Or: How to Be Many and Why
Individualised psychologically driven protagonists as hypothetical human beings are the dominant type of characters in films. When societal issues...
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Conclusion: The Long Shadow
Percy Shelley’s The Cenci provides a high-water mark for Romantic drama. Its poetry is unsurpassed in any other play from the era, in part because,...
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Location and Design
This chapter explains how, with the explosion of location shooting in the early 1970s, it was often production designers who were in charge of...
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Character as a Zombie Concept
In this chapter, I engage with the actor’s direct connection to the performance—the concept of character. As will become apparent in what follows,...
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Introduction
The purpose of this book is to analyse the impact of capitalist social relationships on the concept of the actor as a cultural agent, a concept...
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Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant
Introduced in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), R. M. Renfield would go on to become the most famous of all “familiars” – the human assistants of...
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The Social Body and Its Transformations
In this chapter, I analyse the macro-framework in which the actor is positioned as a cultural agent engaged in the representation of personhood. Mary...
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A Tale Of Two Menaces
Having shown how the unified catalogue of transmedia character components can be used to analyse Doctor Doom, another smaller case study is conducted...
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The Vicissitudes of Persona
The processes and effects considered so far have focused on the realm of production and its extension into consumption. What needs to be considered...
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Shifting Diegetic Boundaries
Cinematic Virtual Reality (CVR) lets viewers choose their gaze direction within cinematic content encircling them in 360 degrees and can in some...
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The Joker as Philosopher: Killing Jokes
Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke is one of the most popular Batman comic stories, and it is considered one of the greatest...
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Hybrid Investigative Journalism During Times of Crisis
In pursuit of its continued focus on holding power to account—locally, nationally and globally—investigative journalism as a practice has actively...
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The Mandalorian as Philosophy: “This Is the Way”
The Mandalorian is Disney’s finest Star Wars property because it’s the first one that hasn’t divided the fan base. But why? Because everyone agrees...
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Stardom as a Force of Nature
In the post-studio era, productive resources, once contained within the studio system, are now sourced externally. Once centred in major studio-owned...
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Framing a Conceptual Approach for Urban Conservation in Historic Cities- A Case of Kuttichira, Kerala
Urban heritage is a source of identity and pride and can drive sustainable and equitable economic and social development. It represents an...
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Screenwriting for Virtual Reality: Future Directions
This concluding chapter reflects upon the critical themes emerging from the scholarship featured in this collection Screenwriting for Virtual...
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A Case Study of VR Story Development: Fire Escape (2019)
Fire Escape (2019) is an award-winning interactive VR series that engages users in a fictional murder mystery set in a Brooklyn apartment complex....
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Where Vampires Fear to Tread
Looking at the concept of the vampireless vampire film, and using texts primarily from early cinema through to just after World War II, this chapter...
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Work—Rarely a Feast, Mostly a Famine
In this chapter, I address the question of the impact of the labour market on how actors engage in the search for work. Generally considered, the...