Outputs (52)

Sound and Music Dramaturgy in Documentary Film (2025)
Book
Stutterheim, K. Sound and Music Dramaturgy in Documentary Film. Routledge

The book aims to serve as an introduction to the dramaturgical relevance of sound and music in the conceptualisation and production of documentary films. It is designed to be applicable across different mediums, whether the documentary is intended fo... Read More about Sound and Music Dramaturgy in Documentary Film.

A Summer Sunday Evening (2025)
Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]

An experimental Short Documentary

After a busy summer weekend at one of southern England’s most beautiful beaches, people gather for BBQs, dip their feet in the sea, snap photos, and play ball. As the sun sets, a quieter truth remains: the traces... Read More about A Summer Sunday Evening.

Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER (2025)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER. In C. Lang, & K. Nühlen (Eds.), Frauen in der Drehbucharbeit: Geschichte, Produktion, Ästhetik. De Gruyter

In my chapter, I will give an impression of the significance of the trilogy in relation to a female author's particular perspective on India's independence from Britain and the division of society and also religious radicalisation that accompanied it... Read More about Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER.

The 21st Century film, TV and media school: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century (2024)
Book
Stutterheim, K., Cammaer, G., Mortimer, R., Campbell, K., & Meissner, N. (Eds.). (2024). The 21st Century film, TV and media school: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century. CILECT

Teaching Documentary spans a broad field of approaches and specifications within a genre that has been in constant change and development throughout its history. Documentary film is an art form and a practice, although often received or interpreted a... Read More about The 21st Century film, TV and media school: Teaching Documentary for the 21st Century.

Authentizität und Dokumentarfilm: Was bedeutet das? (2024)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Authentizität und Dokumentarfilm: Was bedeutet das?. In Kurt Schwitter Symposium - Authentizität. Transcript Verlag

Authentizität im Dokumentarfilm wird seit längerem im Diskurs um das Genre Dokumentarfilm viel diskutiert. Der Begriff Authentizität, wie bereits in den anderen Beiträgen diskutiert, wird je nach akademischer Disziplin, in der die Autor*innen spezial... Read More about Authentizität und Dokumentarfilm: Was bedeutet das?.

Authentizität und Poetischer Dokumentarfilm (2024)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Authentizität und Poetischer Dokumentarfilm. In Authentizität in den Medien (25). transcript Verlag

Authentizität im Dokumentarfilm wird seit längerem im Diskurs um das Genre Dokumentarfilm viel diskutiert. Der Begriff Authentizität, wie bereits in den anderen Beiträgen diskutiert, wird je nach akademischer Disziplin, in der die Autor*innen spezial... Read More about Authentizität und Poetischer Dokumentarfilm.

Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries (2023)
Journal Article
Stutterheim, K. (2023). Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries. International Journal of Film and Media Arts, 8(3), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.24140/ijfma.v8.n3.04

Sound dramaturgy as part of the aesthetic design of documentary films is invisible but most relevant, although often overlooked. The chapter gives a short introduction to dramaturgy and the importance of sound dramaturgy as most impactful for documen... Read More about Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries.

Design as a Societal Need: Funding, Marketing and Growing the UK's burgeoning freelance network (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2023). Design as a Societal Need: Funding, Marketing and Growing the UK's burgeoning freelance network. In Coast to Coast (26-29). boom saloon. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8099962

Visual Dramaturgy – from Caligari to Shutter Island (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Visual Dramaturgy – from Caligari to Shutter Island. In Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing

Visual dramaturgy has been an important aspect of storytelling since the beginning of cinema. David Bordwell, describing cinema as ‘providing successive pictorial displays’ (Bordwell 2006: 11) directs our focus onto the relevance of the visual level... Read More about Visual Dramaturgy – from Caligari to Shutter Island.

Film Dramaturgy: A Practice and a Tool for Researchers (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2023). Film Dramaturgy: A Practice and a Tool for Researchers. In R. Davies, P. Russo, & C. Tieber (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies (689-708). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20769-3_36

This chapter gives an overview of dramaturgy as practice and discipline. Dramaturgy has its origins in Antiquity and established itself as a theoretical and analytical approach to understand and support narrative-performative arts in the eighteenth c... Read More about Film Dramaturgy: A Practice and a Tool for Researchers.