Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness / / Agnieszka Piotrowska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Piotrowska, Agnieszka,
• MitwirkendeR: Alabi-Hundeyin, Tunde,; Atakav, Eylem,; Barrett, Jenny,; Brown, William,; Buckland, Warren,; Clancy, Tony,; Daniels, Jill,; Eadie, Bruce,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Fong, Rosa,; Grant, Catherine,; Massoumi, Nariman,; Mock, Roberta,; Piotrowska, Agnieszka,; Rifeser, Judith,; Starkier, Isabelle,; Twitchin, Mischa,; Velody, Rachel,; Weedon, Alexis,; Yu, Kiki Tianqi,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 37 B/W illustrations

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 knowledgeExplores 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 regulationsIntroduces the concept of tactical compliance and its implications for creative practitionersIncludes reflective essays from film and media studies practitioners and researchersBringing 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Life in the Post Pandemic Age -- 1. Introduction: Complexities, Compromises and Complicities -- 2. Against the Grain: Women Film Practitioners and Theorists Talk Creative Practice and Theory -- 3. Married to the Eiffel Tower: Notes on Love, Loss and Knowledge -- 4. Creativity and Neoliberalism: Between Autonomy, Resistance and Tactical Compliance -- 5. Tactical Compliance and the Persistence of Elsaesser -- 6. Storytelling and Game Playing -- 7. Autonomy and the Other Woman: Queer Active Agency and Postcolonial Expectations -- 8. From Neolithic to Neoliberal -- 9. First-person Expression on ‘Non-Western’ Screens: China as a Case Study -- 10. Scholarly Exploration of the Creative Process: Integrating Film Theory and Practice -- 11. Teaching Practice as Theory: Guerrilla Filmmaking -- 12. Baits of Falsehood: The Role of Fiction in Documentary or From Untheorised Practice to Unpractised Theory -- 13. Repented: A Creative Intersemiotic Translation -- Notes on Repented -- 14. How do you see me? The Camera as Transitional Object in Diasporic, Domestic Ethnography -- 15. ‘Shut Your Hole, Girlie. Mine’s Making Money, Doll’: Creative Practice-Research and the Problem of Professionalism -- 16. Feminist ‘Pensive-creative Praxis’ and Irigaray: A Porous, Dialogical Encounter -- 17. The Paths of Creation, or How Can I Help my Dybbouk to Get Out of Me? -- 18. ‘We Want to Kill Boko Haram’: Reflections on the Photographic Representation of Children in a Displacement Camp -- 19. Between ‘Counter-movement’ (Ingold) and ‘Living with Ghosts’ (Demos) -- 20. Screen Memories: A Video Essay on Smultronstället/Wild Strawberries -- Index