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The ‘Research Repository’ is the open access institutional repository of Edinburgh Napier University. It contains examples of research outputs produced by staff and research students, as well as related information about the university's funded projects and staff research interests.

Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format, and hyperlinks to standard published versions will be provided. Any questions about submissions to the repository or problems with access to any of its content should be sent to the Repository Team at repository@napier.ac.uk

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Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Neilan, C. (in press). Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing

Since the emergence of Syd Field’s Screenplay in 1979 and the modern screenwriting gurus that followed, Western cinema has undergone a profound conventionalisation process, deifying the single protagonist quest narrative, with its roots in Aristoteli... Read More about Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’.

Meet Big Bird (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. (in press). Meet Big Bird. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024. (Unpublished)

The Karen ethnic minority, from Karen State in southeastern Myanmar, have been fighting for independence since 1948—the longest running civil war in the world. The Myanmarese junta have committed well-documented war crimes and acts of ethnic cleansi... Read More about Meet Big Bird.

Mother & Daughters (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. (in press). Mother & Daughters. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024. (Unpublished)

The Lahu people, an ethnic group originating in China and other parts of southeast Asia, began moving into Thailand probably in the 1870s or 1880s due to oppression in China. Lahu hill tribes in Thailand today total between 60,000 to 100,000 people,... Read More about Mother & Daughters.

Love and Border (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. (in press). Love and Border. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024. (Unpublished)

Mae Sot is a border city in western Thailand, a few kilometres from the border with Myanmar, and home to sizeable community of Myanmarese migrants and refugees. Myanmar’s severe political and economic problems, including violent oppression of ethnic... Read More about Love and Border.

A Process of Becoming (2022)
Book Chapter
Neilan, C. (2022). A Process of Becoming. In Pennsylvania English 40.2 (77-89). The Pennsylvania College English Association

Short story published in Pennsylvania English, the journal of the Pennsylvania College English Association and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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