- Title
- Rethinking genre theory for screenwriting practice: using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of discourse
- Creator
- Weaving, Simon
- Relation
- Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association Annual Conference (ASPERA 2016). Refereed Proceedings: Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) 2016 Annual Conference (Canberra, A.C.T. 5-7 July, 2016)
- Relation
- http://www.aspera.org.au/research/conference-proceedings/annual-conference-refereed-proceedings-2016/
- Publisher
- Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Screenwriters are frequently encouraged to use genre as an approach to developing their cinematic storytelling, but-with a personal interest in creating a feature length film noir film-I was concerned that applying genre conventions might result in a highly clichéd screenplay. In order to better understand how genre can be used in practice as a screenwriter, I realised that I would have to revisit both the nature and function of genre in detail. This paper traces my research of film genre from its origins in the earliest days of cinema to contemporary theory, outlining a number of problems with the theory that gave rise to some frustration as a screenwriter. The paper then outlines how Mikhail Bakhtin and Valentin Voloshnikov's theories of discourse helped overcome these issues, reconciling some of the theory with how genre is used in filmmaking practice generally, and in my own practice with the writing of a screenplay, Burnt, in particular.
- Subject
- screenwriting; genre; filmmaking; theory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1346407
- Identifier
- uon:29855
- Identifier
- ISSN:9780994336538
- Language
- eng
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