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Ethics in Screenwriting

New Perspectives

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Steven Maras

    1. Media and Communication, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

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  • Analyses screenwriting drawing on media ethics and ethical theory
  • Explores critical questions raised by ethical analysis of scripts and screenwriters
  • Offers new perspectives on a key area of media practice
  • Includes case studies, interviews from practitioners discussing ethics and analysis of scripts

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting (PSIS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Ethics Beyond the Code

    • Steven Maras
    Pages 1-29

  4. Actuality and History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. ANZAC Girls: An Ethical Auto-analysis

      • Felicity Packard, Ben Stubbs
      Pages 99-123

    3. The Ethics of Actuality in the Scripting of Enrique Rosas’s The Gray Automobile

      • María Teresa DePaoli
      Pages 125-145

    4. Blurring Boundaries, Transmedia Storytelling and the Ethics of C. S. Peirce

      • Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Alessandro Nanì
      Pages 147-175

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 259-263
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About this book

Ethics in Screenwriting: New Perspectives is a book that breaks new ground by forging a link between screenwriting research and a burgeoning interest in film, media, and narrative ethics. Going beyond the orthodox discussion of morality of film and television, the collection focuses on ethics in screenwriting. Building on a new wave of screenwriting research, as well as a ‘turn to ethics’ in humanities and media studies scholarship, this title forms a bridge between these areas in a unique analysis of a key area of media practice. Each essay goes beyond the general discussion of ethics and media to engage with specific aspects of screenwriting or scripting. Written for readers interested in questions of ethics as well as screenwriting, the collection offers new perspectives on ethical questions associated with Writers and their Production Environment; Actuality and History; and Character and Narrative.

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“What are the ethical questions involved in screenwriting? Steven Maras and a range of expert contributors explore diverse ways in which ethical issues become focused through characterisation, narrative, representations of history, and screenwriting’s unavoidable engagement with social, professional and philosophical practices. Featuring ground-breaking interviews, studies of fiction and nonfiction films, long-form television series, and transmedia narratives from many different countries and industries, this major collection takes the study of screenwriting into new and challenging areas, and will appeal to researchers and practitioners alike.” (Steven Price, Bangor University, UK)

“Screenwriting is fundamentally about ethics, because it is about making choices in social situations. Maras and his colleagues are the first to seriously research this connection, opening up a whole new territory for exploration.” (Ian W. Macdonald, University of Leeds, UK)

“A compelling and original contribution to the field. Maras’ book offers an insightful and thought-provoking study of scriptwriting and screenplay studies.” (Miranda Banks, Emerson College, Boston, MA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Media and Communication, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

    Steven Maras

About the editor

Steven Maras is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Screenwriting: History, Theory, and Practice (2009) and also of Objectivity in Journalism (2013).

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