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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.