Prof Kerstin Stutterheim's Outputs (23)

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.

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.

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.

(De-)Konstruktion und Dramaturgie (2015)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2015). (De-)Konstruktion und Dramaturgie. In E. Prommer, M. Schuegraf, & C. Wegener (Eds.), Gender - Medien - Screens: (De)Konstruktionen aus wissenschaftlicher und künstlerischer Perspektive (223-234). UVK-Verlagsgesellschaft

Nationalsozialistische Filmproduktionen (2015)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2015). Nationalsozialistische Filmproduktionen. In W. Benz (Ed.), Handbuch des Antisemitismus (343-350). De Gruyter Saur

Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction (2014)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2014). Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction. In M. Elm, K. Kabalek, & J. B. Köhne (Eds.), The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema: Violence Void Visualization (125-144). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

In this essay two different poetic movies (Ivan's Childhood, Tarkovsky; Shutter Island, Scorsese) will be discussed, each focussing on traumatized heroes. The protagonist of both epic stories are archaic figures represented as individual characters.... Read More about Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction.

Generic Metamorphosis – Scandinavian Investigators in postmodern TV Shows (2014)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2014). Generic Metamorphosis – Scandinavian Investigators in postmodern TV Shows. In C. Dreher (Ed.), Autorenserien II / Auteur Series II: Quality TV in den USA und Europa / Quality TV in the USA and Europe (171-219). Wilhelm Fink / Brill

Dramaturgie lehren - oder: dem Geheimnis des Erzählens auf den Grund gehen (2013)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2013). Dramaturgie lehren - oder: dem Geheimnis des Erzählens auf den Grund gehen. In B. Ottersbach, & T. Schadt (Eds.), Filmlehren: Ein undogmatischer Leitfaden für Studierende (158-167). Bertz + Fischer

Kitsch und Edelkitsch: Ästhetische Transformationen des Nationalsozialismus in der neueren Spielfilmproduktion (2013)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2013). Kitsch und Edelkitsch: Ästhetische Transformationen des Nationalsozialismus in der neueren Spielfilmproduktion. In T. Weber, & U. von Keitz (Eds.), Transformationen des Holocaust (327-344). AVINUS Verlag

Bilderwelten des Dokumentarischen - Zwischen Hoffnung und Restriktion (2013)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2013). Bilderwelten des Dokumentarischen - Zwischen Hoffnung und Restriktion. In K. Klejsa, S. Schahadat, & M. Wach (Eds.), Der Polnische Film: Von seinen Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart (353-370). Schüren

Fiktionalisierte Wirklichkeiten (2010)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2010). Fiktionalisierte Wirklichkeiten. In A. Bartl, & S. Catani (Eds.), Bastard: Figurationen des Hybriden zwischen Ausgrenzung und Entgrenzung (239-253). Königshausen & Neumann

Der deutsche Wald im nationalsozialistischen Kulturfilm (2008)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2008). Der deutsche Wald im nationalsozialistischen Kulturfilm. In U. Jung-Kaiser (Ed.), Der Wald als romantischer Topos (237-254). Peter Lang