Filmmaking as Research Screening Memories
This book examines the challenges often experienced by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the academy, either as students or academics. In light of this the author presents her own journey from practitioner to researcher as a
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Filmmaking as Research
Diane Charleson
Filmmaking as Research Screening Memories
Diane Charleson School of Arts (Media) Australian Catholic University Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
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Foreword: Research Through Filmmaking
Universities as social institutions are concerned with the production of knowledge through various kinds of research. When we think about research, we typically think about libraries and various well-established quantitative and qualitative methodologies associated with sciences, social sciences and humanities. However, there is a relative newcomer in the form of creative practice research, which in turn may be described as a bricolage where methods such as autoethnography and reflective practice are appropriated and adapted to fit within the world views, paradigms and epistemologies that serve as the basis for the practices associated with creative industries like screen production. As a mode of research, creative practice is increasing its traction within universities. Creative practices may be described as the actions and routine processes that have the aim or objective of inventing and producing creative works. For such actions and processes to be considered as research, they need to push the boundaries of fields of enquiry, to expand knowledge, to blaze new trails, to disrupt existing ways of doing and thinking, through a systematic methodology informed by theoretical perspectives a
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