Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474463577 (ISBN)

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Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholarship and knowledge

In Creative Practice Research in Film and Media, creative practitioners discuss their experiences and examine how to retain integrity during times of political and economic battles in higher education, and attempts to quantify creative work. It uses the notion of tactical compliance to evaluate whether and when creative practitioners compromise their creativity by working within the higher education system. It offers a space for reflection for both practitioners and theorists, and it presents a much-needed intervention, which will be of interest to all academics engaged with creative practice as research.

Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award-winning international creative practice researcher, educator, psychologist and filmmaker known for her dedication to inclusivity. Based in the UK, Professor Piotrowska has presented her work internationally, inspiring others through cross-cultural collaboration. She is a member of the General Council of the Visible Evidence, the most important global network for documentary studies. Formerly Head of the School of Film, Media and Performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts, she currently supervises PhD students at Staffordshire and Oxford Brookes Universities. From 2018 to 2024, she was Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Gdansk, directing the Visible Evidence conference there. She has given keynotes internationally, focusing on the links between theory and practice. Her acclaimed documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower and her new award-winning experimental film work in Zimbabwe have received global recognition. Professor Piotrowska’s extensive publications on psychoanalysis, culture and cinema include Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2014, 2023) Black and White: Cinema, Politics, and the Arts in Zimbabwe (2017) and the monograph The Nasty Woman in Cinema and Culture (2019), as well as four edited collections.

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Acknowledgements

1. Introduction – Against Compromises and ComplicitiesAgnieszka Piotrowska

2. Against the Grain: Women Film Practitioners and Theorists Talk Creative Practice and TheoryJill Daniels, Rachel Velody and Eylem Atakav

3. Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008) – Notes on Love, Loss and KnowledgeAgnieszka Piotrowska

4. Creativity and Neoliberalism: Between Autonomy, Resistance and Tactical Compliance Thomas Elsaesser

5. Tactical Compliance and the Persistence of ElsaesserWilliam Brown

6. Storytelling and Game PlayingAlexis Weedon

7. Autonomy and the Other Woman: Queer Active Agency and Postcolonial ExpectationsJenny Barrett and Rosa Fong

8. From Neolithic to NeoliberalTony Clancy

9. First-Person Expression on ‘non-Western’ Screens – China as a Case StudyKiki Tianqi Yu

10. Scholarly Exploration of the Creative Process: Integrating Film Theory and PracticeWarren Buckland

11. Teaching Practice as Theory: Guerrilla FilmmakingWilliam Brown

12. Baits of Falsehood: The Role of Fiction in Documentary or From Untheorised Practice to Unpractised TheoryBruce Eadie

13. Repented (2019) – A Creative Intersemiotic TranslationAgnieszka Piotrowska

Notes on Agnieszka Piotrowska’s Repented

Thomas Elsaesser

14. How Do You See Me? The Camera as Transitional Object in Diasporic, Domestic EthnographyNariman Massoumi

15. ‘Shut Your Hole, Girlie. Mine’s Making Money, Doll’: Creative Practice-Research & the Problem of ProfessionalismRoberta Mock

16. Feminist ‘Pensive-Creative Praxis’ and Irigaray: A Porous, Dialogical EncounterJudith Rifeser

17. The Paths of Creation or How Can I Help My Dybbouk to Get Out of Me?Isabelle Starkier

18. ‘We Want to Kill Boko Haram’. Reflections on the Photographic Representation of Children in a Displacement CampTunde Alabi-Hundeyin

19. Between ‘counter-movement’ (Ingold) and ‘living with ghosts’ (Demos)Mischa Twitchin

20. Screen Memories: A Video Essay on Smultronstället / Wild StrawberriesCatherine Grant

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2022
Zusatzinfo	37 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-13	9781474463577 / 9781474463577
Zustand	Neuware