Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness

Agnieszka Piotrowska

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness

Agnieszka Piotrowska

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474463584

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About this book

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

Explores the tensions between creative inspirations and the reality of having to produce work, which is also a contribution to knowledge that can be measured against governmental standards, rules and regulations
Introduces the concept of tactical compliance and its implications for creative practitioners
Includes reflective essays from film and media studies practitioners and researchers

Bringing together a range of creative practitioners and notable scholars, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Catherine Grant, Roberta Mock, Warren Buckland, Kiki Tianqi Yu, William Brown and others, this fascinating collection explores the challenges of retaining integrity during times of political and economic tensions in higher education and elsewhere.

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness offers a space for reflection for both practitioners and theorists, examining the conflict between creative inspiration and the reality of having to produce work that contributes to human knowledge, and that can also be measured against governmental standards, rules and regulations. The contributors present a radical and much-needed intervention that will interest all academics engaged with creative practice research. It also contains one of Thomas Elsaesser’s final pieces of writing, a unique personal account of the making of his first and only film The Sun Island.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Preface: Life in the Post Pandemic Age Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
1. Introduction: Complexities, Compromises and Complicities Agnieszka Piotrowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Against the Grain: Women Film Practitioners and Theorists Talk Creative Practice and Theory Jill Daniels, Rachel Velody and Eylem Atakav Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Married to the Eiffel Tower: Notes on Love, Loss and Knowledge Agnieszka Piotrowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
4. Creativity and Neoliberalism: Between Autonomy, Resistance and Tactical Compliance Thomas Elsaesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
5. Tactical Compliance and the Persistence of Elsaesser William Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
6. Storytelling and Game Playing Alexis Weedon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7. Autonomy and the Other Woman: Queer Active Agency and Postcolonial Expectations Jenny Barrett and Rosa Fong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
8. From Neolithic to Neoliberal Tony Clancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
9. First-person Expression on ‘Non-Western’ Screens: China as a Case Study Kiki Tianqi Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
10. Scholarly Exploration of the Creative Process: Integrating Film Theory and Practice Warren Buckland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
11. Teaching Practice as Theory: Guerrilla Filmmaking William Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
12. Baits of Falsehood: The Role of Fiction in Documentary or From Untheorised Practice to Unpractised Theory Bruce Eadie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
13. Repented: A Creative Intersemiotic Translation Agnieszka Piotrowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Notes on Repented Thomas Elsaesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
14. How do you see me? The Camera as Transitional Object in Diasporic, Domestic Ethnography Nariman Massoumi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
15. ‘Shut Your Hole, Girlie. Mine’s Making Money, Doll’: Creative Practice-Research and the Problem of Professionalism Roberta Mock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
16. Feminist ‘Pensive-creative Praxis’ and Irigaray: A Porous, Dialogical Encounter Judith Rifeser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
17. The Paths of Creation, or How Can I Help my Dybbouk to Get Out of Me? Isabelle Starkier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
18. ‘We Want to Kill Boko Haram’: Reflections on the Photographic Representation of Children in a Displacement Camp Tunde Alabi-Hundeyin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
19. Between ‘Counter-movement’ (Ingold) and ‘Living with Ghosts’ (Demos) Mischa Twitchin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
20. Screen Memories: A Video Essay on Smultronstället/Wild Strawberries Catherine Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 37 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474463584