Prof Kerstin Stutterheim's Outputs (51)

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.

Sound Dramaturgy (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Sound Dramaturgy. In Teaching Sound for the 21st Century. CILECT

Sound dramaturgy as part of the aesthetic design of either a film or a Virtual Reality (VR) experience is invisible, but most relevant, although often overlooked. As a sound person and academic, I have long been interested in the dramaturgical releva... Read More about Sound Dramaturgy.

SPARTACUS’ Aftermath / Influences (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. SPARTACUS’ Aftermath / Influences. In Kubrick encounters Spartacus. (Kubrick Studies). Liverpool University Press

A short reflection on the impact of the movie onto Kubricks carreer but moreover how it got referred to by later productions - movies, TV productions, and games alike.

The Epic Spartacus (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. The Epic Spartacus. In Kubrick Encounters Spartacus. Liverpool University Press

Epic stories portray influential characters acting under extraordinary circumstances. As we can see it happens to Spartacus in this movie, the main character is forced to act in a way they never would have imagined a moment before the incident starts... Read More about The Epic Spartacus.

Photography and Memory (2022)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2022). Photography and Memory. In Ron O'Donnell - Edinburgh: A Lost World (2-5). Edinburgh Napier University

The essay reflects on Photography and Memory, in occassion of Ron O'Donnell's exhibition at the City Art Centre Edinbugh.
These images introduce us to a specific place that can be accurately designated. Above all, however, the photos focus on the... Read More about Photography and Memory.

Time is not relative – a modern and postmodern approach to time in The Shining (2022)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). Time is not relative – a modern and postmodern approach to time in The Shining. In Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing

Time spans and temporal relationships in film narratives are relevant to the dramaturgical or dramatic form of the screenplay. As humans, we experience time as linear and causal, in rhythm with our breath and heartbeat. The significance of time and o... Read More about Time is not relative – a modern and postmodern approach to time in The Shining.

Magazin #0 (2021)
Book
Ander, H., Butz, K., Hertell, H., & Stutterheim, K. (Eds.). (2021). Magazin #0. Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

Not an unusual life for the time and place: Etel Mittag-Fodor (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Stutterheim, K. Not an unusual life for the time and place: Etel Mittag-Fodor. [photo]. Exhibited at Cologne, Germany. 21 October 2021 - 24 October 2021

On the occasion of the festival year "1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany", the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) presents an exhibition of portraits, still lifes and architectural photographs by the Bauhaus photographer Etel Mittag-Fodor from 192... Read More about Not an unusual life for the time and place: Etel Mittag-Fodor.

Narration und Dramaturgie in poetischen Dokumentarfilmen (2020)
Book
Stutterheim, K. Narration und Dramaturgie in poetischen Dokumentarfilmen. Peter Lang

Poetische Dokumentarfilme scheinen sich aus der Beobachtung und Organisation des Materials zu ergeben, doch dem ist nicht so. Poetischer Dokumentarfilm entspricht der offenen oder modernen Form des Erzählens und profitiert von entsprechender Dramatur... Read More about Narration und Dramaturgie in poetischen Dokumentarfilmen.

Modern Film Dramaturgy - An Introduction (2019)
Book
Stutterheim, K. (2019). Modern Film Dramaturgy - An Introduction. Peter Lang

What makes a good movie? How can one analyse a film accordingly without primarily interpreting it? Dramaturgy can enrich film understanding, for those who make films, as well as for those who want to understand better why they are made how. Film Dram... Read More about Modern Film Dramaturgy - An Introduction.

Music as an Element of Narration in Poetic Documentaries (2018)
Journal Article
Stutterheim, K. (2018). Music as an Element of Narration in Poetic Documentaries. New Soundtrack, 8(2), 103-117. https://doi.org/10.3366/sound.2018.0124

Music, sound and rhythm, as aesthetic means of design, have been part of the tradition of poetic documentary film from its early history. This paper discusses various examples of this genre, all of which use soundscapes, sound design, and music. Musi... Read More about Music as an Element of Narration in Poetic Documentaries.

Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad (2017)
Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K., & Bolbrinker, N. (2017). Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad. [Film]

Es un documental sobre la escuela de arte o diseño, probablemente más conocida de la modernidad. Sus productos “estilo Bauhaus” responden a un diseño estilizado, funcional y moderno. Los profesores que recorrieron sus aulas recibieron reconocimiento... Read More about Bauhaus: El mito de la modernidad.