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  • Entering the Borderland: Creative Process and the Quest for Mythic Resonance in the Work of an Australian Screenwriter

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    Author(s)
    Glass, Benjamin
    Primary Supervisor
    FitzSimons, Trish
    Other Supervisors
    Beattie, Debra
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This exegesis explores the challenges I have faced as an emerging Australian storyteller attempting to write myths for domestic and international television audiences. The exegesis focuses specifically on four creative modalities that I have either developed or adopted in order to gain a better understanding of myth’s foundations, the archetypes. These modalities are: meditation, hypnagogic immersion, archetypal dream work and active imagination. The exegesis considers the hypothesis that an emerging screenwriter can gain a more instinctual and intimate understanding of myth from a ‘direct’ dialogue with the archetypes within ...
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    This exegesis explores the challenges I have faced as an emerging Australian storyteller attempting to write myths for domestic and international television audiences. The exegesis focuses specifically on four creative modalities that I have either developed or adopted in order to gain a better understanding of myth’s foundations, the archetypes. These modalities are: meditation, hypnagogic immersion, archetypal dream work and active imagination. The exegesis considers the hypothesis that an emerging screenwriter can gain a more instinctual and intimate understanding of myth from a ‘direct’ dialogue with the archetypes within one’s own body, than can be garnered solely through an intellectual understanding of the mythic storytelling frameworks that have been popularised within the screen industries. The creative works with which I’ve developed and tested this hypothesis include two short films Interview (2006) and The Weight of Sunken Treasure (2007), and the pilot script for Borderland, a proposed 10 episode serial drama for television.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
    School
    Griffith Film School
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/2743
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
    Item Access Status
    Public
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    Submission consists of Exegesis, Data DVD, Video - Interview: The Truth will be Told, Video - The Weight of Sunken Treasure. The full submission is kept in hard copy in the Library Collection Archive Room.
    Subject
    Sreenwriters, Australian
    Script writing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365936
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