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dc.contributor.authorDooley, Kath
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:51:38Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:51:38Z
dc.date.created2015-05-14T20:00:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationDooley, K. 2014. Oppositions and lines of desire: Exploring the screenwriting approach of Claire Denis in a practice-based study. Text. 18 (2): pp. 1-17.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35767
dc.description.abstract

In her twenty-five year career, French writer/director Claire Denis has produced close to a dozen feature films. Existing in the margins of mainstream cinema, Denis’s work includes disturbing and/or horrific films that explore the body as a site for identity formation, sexual debasement and transgressive urges. The majority of Denis’s films have been written in collaboration with co-writer Jean-Pol Fargeau, a process Denis describes as involving the ‘grafting’ of various elements into a coherent whole. This approach sees character and plot defined through the drafting of a ‘diagram of relations’, a form of construction that distances Denis from popular approaches to screenwriting undertaken in Australia. In this article I describe how I conducted a practical investigation of Denis’s approach by writing an original 25-minute screenplay (produced into a film in early 2012). This process was both a means of further enquiry into Denis’s thematic and practical concerns, and a creative outcome of my PhD research, which allowed for a reinvigoration and evaluation of my previous practice as screenwriter. The resulting script is a departure from my previous output, with a different approach to plot signifiers, conflict and the psychological representation of character. With self-reflexive examination and creative analysis, this paper explores the specifics of Denis’s approach and its impact when imported into my practice in an Australian context. Keywords: Claire Denis, screenwriting, the body

dc.publisherAustralian Association of Writing Programs
dc.relation.urihttp://www.textjournal.com.au/oct14/dooley.htm
dc.titleOppositions and lines of desire: Exploring the screenwriting approach of Claire Denis in a practice-based study
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume18
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.issn1327-9556
dcterms.source.titleText
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