The writer as director: A case study - Brothers and Sisters (1981)

Woolley, R. (2015) The writer as director: A case study - Brothers and Sisters (1981). Journal of Screenwriting, 6 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 17597137

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Abstract

This is a practitioner’s case history of a particular, personal scripting process, in the context of Arts public funding of film in the United Kingdom, before the rise of the current screenwriting orthodoxy. The role of the script for an auteur writer-director is, here, seen more clearly as a personal tool for the development of the screen idea; format, for example, works creatively for the director rather than as a standardized part of the conventional memorandum for others it has become. Using the experience of scripting Brothers and Sisters (1981) I reflect on the interconnection between script and eventual film as a whole process, rather than as a separate set of skills, and conclude that the best way of achieving those representational goals in the screenplay context should remain open to continual experiment and debate by researchers and practitioners alike, and not be closed off for all time by absolutist formulas and set-in-stone formats. © 2014 Intellect Ltd.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1386/josc.6.1.39_1
Dates:	Date Event 2015 Published
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1970s film, Auteur, Brothers and Sisters (1981), Film script, Screenplay, Screenplay format, Writer-director
Subjects:	CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-01 - creative arts and design > CAH25-01-04 - cinematics and photography
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of English and Media
Depositing User:	Hussen Farooq
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2017 14:34
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2022 16:57
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1237

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