'Party Season: A Screenplay-Based Inquiry into Filming and Judgment, with Accompanying Essay'.
Citation
Export citationShepherd, B. J. (2007). ‘Party Season: A Screenplay-Based Inquiry into Filming and Judgment, with Accompanying Essay’. (Thesis, Master of Arts (MA)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2430
Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2430
Abstract
Party Season is about sex and speech and employs some of the conventions of theporn film. Apparently inconsequential 'filler' scenes and dialogue link the pay-offscenes of vividly depicted sex. Except that, in Party Season, this relationship isgradually reversed - the scenes of excessive behaviour becoming 'filler' sceneslinking the pay-off moments, the latter often embedded in deliberately extended'unrealistic' dialogue. A key component of this as a piece of inquiry-based practice isthe exploration of this altering balance and of how action and dialogue can functionto produce such a reversal of conventionality. The intention with the accompanyingessay is to sustain a progressive interweaving of reflective commentary and analyticalvignettes. There is also an intended symmetry here - an 'excessive' essay (long,without conventional subheadings, breaks, etc.) will sit alongside the 'excessive'screenplay as its twin of sorts, a different style of invention. The essay is to speechwhat the screenplay is to sex.
Date
2007Type
Degree Name
Publisher
The University of Waikato
Rights
All items in Research Commons are provided for private study and research purposes and are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Collections
- Masters Degree Theses [2470]