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- ISBN 9781835951477
- Weight: 548g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking. It includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers who reflect on their production process in the form of production diaries or self-critique and analyses from scholars who investigate the production contexts of essay film as well as interviews with filmmakers on how their practices are conceptualised and contextualised. Overall, it takes essay film as an expression of personal camera, collaborative/collective work and experimental work where the boundaries between different art forms blurs and merges.
Romana Turina is associate professor at Arts University Bournemouth. She is a writer, filmmaker and historian. While leading research in the ‘Essay Film’ for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), Romana engages in the creative processes. Her work includes the essay films Lunch with Family (2016) and San Sabba (2016), shortlisted at the AHRC Research in Film Awards 2018 and awarded at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards 2018. In 2024, she completed the essay film Three Sisters in a Sketchbook (2024), selected at the LA Independent Women Film Awards 2024, and the Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Awards and Festivals 2024. Romana received her Ph.D. in theatre, film and television from the University of York, UK. She taught creative writing and screenwriting at the University of Indianapolis, the University of York and the University of Greenwich.
