The Voice of the Sea: Sound in Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess
Digital Artefact
Martin, S. (2025)
The Voice of the Sea: Sound in Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess. [Film]. Edinburgh
An exploration of the locations and role of sound in Dion Fortune's (1890-1946) novel The Sea Priestess (1938).
Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’
Book Chapter
Neilan, C. (in press)
Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing
Since the emergence of Syd Field’s Screenplay in 1979 and the modern screenwriting gurus that followed, Western cinema has undergone a profound conventionalisation process, de...
Writing the Cine-Poetic: an Analysis of Screenwriting Technique in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neilan, C. (2023, September)
Writing the Cine-Poetic: an Analysis of Screenwriting Technique in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay. Paper presented at Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2023, Stephens College, Missouri, USA
Lynne Ramsay has been called one of the most distinctive British filmmakers of her generation, yet despite her renown as a director she rarely receives attention nor credit fo...
Jacques Lacan: The Basics
Book
Neill, C. (2023)
Jacques Lacan: The Basics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622002
Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
Lacan’s ideas are applied...
Moving Away From the Monoplot: Conventional Narrative Structure in the Screenplay and the Unconventional Alternatives
Thesis
Neilan, C. (2023)
Moving Away From the Monoplot: Conventional Narrative Structure in the Screenplay and the Unconventional Alternatives. (Thesis). Manchester Metropolitan University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4245408
Through a combination of creative and critical practice, this project seeks to explore the conventionalisation effect that popular screenwriting handbooks have had on screenwr...
Reimagining the First Act: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and the Languorous Cinema of Place
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neilan, C. (2022, September)
Reimagining the First Act: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and the Languorous Cinema of Place. Paper presented at Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2022, University of Vienna, Austria
According to the conventional (Western) model, the typical first act is split into two distinct sections, each with distinct functions. The first (1.1) functions primarily to ...
‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick
Book Chapter
Bishop, D. (2021)
‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick. In L. Andrew, & S. Saunders (Eds.), The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (237-259). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74989-7
Bishop offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many variations of sidekick found in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse novels, and in the three television drama series base...
“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream
Other
Kulpa, R. (2021)
“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream. [Magazine article]. Warsaw
A week after the premiere of the fourth season of "The Crown", the British media announced that viewership records were broken. Diana's story is the main theme in it. What is ...
Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells (eds), Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema
Journal Article
Artt, S. (2018)
Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells (eds), Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema. Screen, 59(4), 556-558. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjy050
Introduction
Journal Article
Bremner, N., & Bahmad, J. (2017)
Introduction. French Cultural Studies, 28(3), 241-247. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155817714118
Although the act of labelling cultural practices or products as trash is often framed as a casual dismissal based on self-evident assumptions, it can in fact be viewed as a me...