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Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for films, television, and other visual media. It involves creating narratives, developing characters, and structuring scenes to convey a story effectively, often adhering to specific formatting and industry standards.
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Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for films, television, and other visual media. It involves creating narratives, developing characters, and structuring scenes to convey a story effectively, often adhering to specific formatting and industry standards.

Key research themes

1. How do screenwriters navigate industrial structures, cultural identity, and professional recognition within national and international screen industries?

This research theme investigates the occupational, industrial, and cultural positioning of screenwriters, emphasizing their experiences in national contexts with particular attention to Canada and Japan, as well as broader power dynamics including authorship, visibility, and institutional recognition. It explores how screenwriters perceive their roles, the challenges they face in producing culturally resonant content for domestic audiences amidst globalized market pressures, and how they negotiate authorship and power in creative-industrial environments.

Key finding: Based on 50 in-depth interviews with English-language Canadian screenwriters, the study reveals that screenwriters face systemic challenges in producing domestic scripted content that appeals to homegrown audiences due to... Read more
Key finding: The monograph documents how Japanese screenwriters during the 1930-1960 studio peak developed their craft within specific standardized textual formats (master-scene scripts) and collaborative spaces (jōyado). It highlights... Read more
Key finding: This critical review highlights Steven Maras's application of Foucauldian and cultural studies perspectives to unpack screenwriting as an industrial practice shaped by power relations. Maras’s analysis transcends Hollywood to... Read more

2. How does gender intersect with genre to shape the career trajectories and labor experiences of television screenwriters?

This theme explores the intersection of gender and genre within television screenwriting, focusing on how female screenwriters experience occupational segregation and restricted mobility by being pigeonholed into certain genres like children's television or continuing drama series (CDS). These dynamics affect women's career progression, industry recognition, and creative opportunities, revealing persistent inequalities and the cultural valuation of genres in the UK television industry.

Key finding: Drawing on the 2018 Writers Guild of Great Britain report and interviews, the paper uncovers a significant gendered pattern whereby female screenwriters are disproportionately found in children’s TV and continuing drama... Read more

3. What are the roles, challenges, and potentials of artificial intelligence (AI) as a collaborative agent in the screenwriting and creative process?

This research area focuses on integrating AI as a co-creative partner in narrative generation and screenwriting, examining both the technological capabilities and human experiences in collaborating with AI systems. It interrogates the limitations of AI in maintaining narrative cohesion, character development, and semantics, as well as its potential to augment creative workflows through ideation and innovative content generation, offering novel methodological frameworks for human-AI co-writing in screenwriting.

Key finding: The study empirically explores a Four Stage Story Generation method using GPT-4 in collaborative screenplay development, structured into thematic, story world, character, and dramaturgical conceptions. It finds that while AI... Read more
Key finding: Through two progressive autoethnographic studies with GPT-3, the research reveals the deterministic and limited agency of AI in creative fiction writing, specifically its semantic inconsistencies and lack of sustained... Read more
Key finding: The study involving 24 film students demonstrates a notable inability to reliably distinguish between human-written and AI-generated screenplay scenes. Quantitative results indicate a bias towards perceiving texts as... Read more

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L'arte di Franco Maresco consiste nello sguardo, una capacità umana universale. Per esso, egli ha una dote particolare. Il suo non è un occhio qualsiasi. Come capita a tutti, ciò verso cui dirige il suo sguardo è accidentale. La vita è un... more
In the development of communicative competence, deficiencies are evident, attributable to student disinterest in their learning and the use of traditional passive teaching strategies. The sample consisted of 284 students for the... more
The cover calligramme inscribes the most memorable sentence in Blade Runner: "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."  That quote in the movie was not in either of the screenplays. It was uttered by Rutger Hauer... more
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This research undertakes a feminist-informed analysis of the comedic sketches featured in the Chinese CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Its principal objectives are to elucidate the representation of women within these sketches, as well as to... more
The screenplay for the movie Second Mother (2015) was written and rewritten for almost 20 years: “I started writing in 1996 when I had a baby in my arms, and now he is a man with a beard”, says the filmmaker Anna Muylaert in an interview... more
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El objetivo de este estudio fue comprender los discursos que futuros profesores de pedagogía en Historia y Geografía tienen sobre la construcción de conocimiento en investigación. Se empleó una perspectiva interpretativa, con un enfoque... more
Tras el éxito de la adaptación cinematográfica del Exorcista (1973), dirigida por William Friedkin, Estados Unidos vivió una oleada de entretenimiento de terror sobrenatural enfocado al tema de posesiones y exorcismos. Este auge... more
Esta Coleção é resultado de seis anos de pesquisa sobre as práticas de produção e criação de ficção seriada no país tendo o streaming como ponto de corte para as reflexões. Levada a cabo pelo Grupo COMCULT da UFMG, a investigação teve... more
A distanza di oltre vent’anni dalla stesura della tesi che ha dato origine a questo volume, il desiderio di tornare a Solaris di Andrej Tarkovskij non nasce solo dalla volontà di pubblicare un lavoro che per molto tempo è rimasto... more
Το άρθρο πρωτοδημοσιεύτηκε στο περιοδικό Screen 30: 4 (Φθινόπωρο 1989), σελ. 36-47, με τίτλο 'The Concept of National Cinema'. . 2 Το άρθρο βασίζεται σε ένα κεφάλαιο της διδακτορικής μου διατριβής την οποία προς το παρόν ετοιμάζω. Θα... more
En este estudio se examinó la integración de inteligencia artificial y tecnologías emergentes en aulas de secundaria de la República Dominicana mediante una encuesta en línea aplicada a 754 docentes de todo el país usando un cuestionario... more
La Red AGEQI (Experimentacion en Quimica Inorganica verde y accesible) aborda la adaptacion de materiales y espacios docentes de Creditos Practicos (CP) de Quimica Inorganica de acuerdo al �Plan de Actuacion para la Igualdad de... more
Tal pesquisa de mestrado buscou pensar a literatura num sentido mais amplo, estendido, engendrado na arte audiovisual. Sua motivacao inicial, surgida da critica ao fechamento intelectual e estetico que reconhece a arte literaria de acordo... more
We're inclusively players, sir". strategia narrativa e ricezione di rosencrantz and GuiLdenstern are dead di tom stoppard nel passaggio dalla scena allo schermo Carlo Vareschi regimi di narrazione al cinema: il ruolo dei "calligrafici"... more
Resumo Este artigo, através da relação entre literatura, cinema e história, pretende demonstrar como o uso de uma saga literária e cinematográfica, como Harry Potter, com ênfase nas figuras dos dementadores e do vilão Lord Voldemort,... more
Päätoimittaja Jan Rydman on kiinnittänyt edellisessä Tieteessä Tapahtuu -lehdessä (6/2002) huomionsa Politiikka-lehden artikkeliimme, jossa tarkastelimme Suomen kansallisen identiteettiprojektin teoriaa empiirisen ajankohtaisaineiston... more
The use of TAC, can be improved little by little, in the learning and to reinforce the collaborative work that must be updated, and to foment a new model in the superior education, always thinking about the exigencies of the professional... more
In the process it was possible to feel how in the world the virtual platforms and their tools have been a fundamental pillar in the higher education, nevertheless, the training in the handling of resources, has been the most complicated... more
Este artículo presenta una experiencia pedagógica implementada en el CEIP La Vega (Tenerife, España), centrada en la creación del periódico escolar Diario La Vega, una propuesta didáctica que busca fomentar la escritura, la comunicación y... more
Movie production spaces often become arenas for controversies and rivalries that ultimately determine whether screenplays are filmed. This process not only contributes to the broader history of cinema but also enriches the field of Film... more
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Το πρόγραμμα απευθύνεται σε Συγγραφείς/Σκηνοθέτες Θεάτρου και παραστατικών τεχνών, Συγγραφείς/Σκηνοθέτες κινηματογράφου/τηλεόρασης και οπτικοακουστικών τεχνών, καθώς και σε άτομα που κάνουν τα πρώτα βήματα της επαγγελματικής τους πορείας... more
Alla 23a edizione dell'Ischia Film Festival abbiamo incontrato uno degli attori italiani più amati dal pubblico Luca Zingaretti ha presentato all'Ischia Film Festival la sua prima regia cinematografica, "La casa degli sguardi" (2024),... more
Between Film: A Theopoetic Film-Study is a visionary exploration of cinema as a sacred, transformative language. Blending theology, philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics, Dr. Aaron C. Waldron, M.Div., offers a Meta-Spiritual methodology... more
Beyond "Hello": A Feminist Lens on Ambition and Sacrifice in "Hello, Love, Again"
Beyond "Hello": A Feminist Lens on Ambition and Sacrifice in "Hello, Love, Again"
Il saggio ripercorre la struttura e l'evoluzione della serie "Don Matteo" a partire dal suo esordio nel 2000 fino al tempo presente, per ipotizzare le ragioni del suo successo e della capacità di rinnovarsi profondamente rimanendo però... more
In this essay I deal with the topic of religious miniseries for Television, that will be seen especially from the point of view of their dramatic structure. A genre that has been-amd still is-extremely successful in Italy in this new... more
Diario collettivo di una proposta "Cinema post CV19" Maggio 2020 Si chiamava "Ulisse", la sceneggiatura che mi ha portato a Berlino il 3 febbraio. Da sempre scrivo prima in persiano e poi lo traduco in Italiano , ma questa volta sono... more
Η Γυναίκα, ο Άγιος και ο Νόμος
The Woman, the Saint and the Law
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the film industry, changing creative workflows and cutting a new path for production, post-production, and audience engagement. This article is focused on modern AI tools that are already... more
In this article, we conduct a case study of collaborative authorship that takes place in the writing of the Amazon Prime series, Transparent. To do this, we rely on extensive interviews with three of the show's writers, and one editor to... more
This paper will focus on monitoring and analyzing information concerning the sequence of events, highlighting the dimensions and correlations omitted from the research, which shed more light on the ambiguous "Galatis Case". The historian... more
Il volume La meta è la felicità propone passi scelti di testi di Karol Wojtyła, quasi tutti inediti in Italia e alcuni persino in Polonia.
Screenwriting is not just an art anymore, it is a business as well as a service. The distinction, however, is very subtle and not properly established, and confuses not just screenwriters but also certified professional chartered... more
Tesi di laurea in Metodologia della ricerca sui media audiovisivi La tesi presenta i risultati della ricerca d’archivio della documentazione personale di Guido Aristarco basata principalmente sulle Cartoline Postali e le Cartoline... more
El libro Análisis de la ficción televisiva española, editado por Concepción Cascajosa Virino y Javier Mateos-Pérez y publicado por la Editorial Síntesis, presenta una panorámica detallada y multifacética de los estudios desarrollados... more
Il contributo analizza il film Malmkrog (2020) di Puiu nella sua dimensione di riscrittura intersemiotica dell’opera di Vladimir Solov’ev Tri razgovora o vojne, progresse i konce vsemirnoj istorii, so vključeniem kratkoj povesti ob... more
This paper introduces the Nodal Screenplay, a comprehensive reimagining of the screenplay as both a narrative and production-integrated system. Unlike traditional screenplay formats that remain isolated from the production pipeline, the... more
Este articulo presenta los fundamentos, diseno y los principales avances de la fase piloto del proyecto denominado “E-Portafolio en procesos de ensenanza y aprendizaje para la educacion tecnico y profesional” desarrollado por el Centro de... more
This paper introduces Screenplay Cinematic Logic (SCL), a mathematical framework for modeling latent film theory behavior in screenplays. The approach separates preference from computation, and thereby enables diagnosis without... more
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