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dc.contributor.advisorFitzSimons, Trish
dc.contributor.authorMullins, Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T23:29:18Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T23:29:18Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.doi10.25904/1912/1577
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/366510
dc.description.abstractWhen screenwriter and doctoral candidate, Anthony Mullins, first started studying Konstantin Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ of performance and script analysis, he hoped the well-known acting technique would be a useful tool for screenwriters. Mullins assumed that because Stanislavsky’s technique analysed all the characters of a story (not just the protagonist) it would naturally be a more detailed approach than conventional techniques like the ‘three-act structure’. It also appeared that Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ had the added advantage of being familiar to actors, the very people who would eventually bring the screenplay to life. However, as Mullins began adapting Stanislavsky’s techniques to his screenwriting process he found it was instead counter-productive, particularly in how it mirrored many of the prescriptive limitations of the ‘three-act structure’. Further research of Stanislavsky’s late-career techniques revealed his wariness of “over-analysis” and the embrace of more intuitive and little-known improvisational techniques, referred to by Stanislavsky as ‘active analysis’. The research centres on the creation of three original TV drama pilot scripts and the Stanislavsky-influenced techniques Mullins used to create the screenplays.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
dc.rights.copyrightThe author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
dc.subject.keywordsFilmmakers, Queensland
dc.subject.keywordsScreenwriters, Queensland
dc.subject.keywordsStanislavsky’s ‘System'
dc.titleScreenwriting with Stanislavsky : Augmenting a Screenwriting Process Using Stanislavsky’s ‘System’
dc.typeGriffith thesis
gro.facultyArts, Education and Law
gro.rights.copyrightThe author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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dc.contributor.otheradvisorMcVeigh, Margaret
dc.contributor.otheradvisorBundy, Penny
gro.identifier.gurtIDgu1447378642568
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gro.thesis.degreelevelThesis (PhD Doctorate)
gro.thesis.degreeprogramDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
gro.departmentQueensland College of Art
gro.griffith.authorMullins, Anthony


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