[ecrea] New book - Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry

*Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry*
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319628363#aboutBook 
<http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319628363#aboutBook>

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, 
this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and 
looks like—and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important 
pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape. Drawing on the work of 
international experts as well as case studies from a range of forms and 
genres—including screenwriting, fiction filmmaking, documentary 
production and mobile media practice—the book is an essential guide for 
those interested in the rich relationship between theory and practice. 
It provides theories, models, tools and best practice examples that 
students and researchers can follow and expand upon in their own screen 
production projects.

Published in *paperback* and e-versions, the book is very reasonably 
priced ... for once!

“The project to clarify how creative practice fitted the university 
system’s imperative for research was born out of necessity. 
Practitioners were being turned into academics and their expertise had 
to be reframed as scholarly enquiry. The screen disciplines had been 
slow starters in this race while the arts, design and writing had made 
progress that had led to stronger system and consensual endeavour.  
Screen production has always presented human and social interests and 
conflict to popular audiences. This field-defining book moves the debate 
from necessity to celebration of screen production research as 
elucidation, explication and understanding of human and social interests 
and conflict—that is, as a mode of enquiry.” (Distinguished Professor 
Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

“Cutting through the forest of discourse about creative this and 
research that, artistic this and knowledge that, Batty and Kerrigan’s 
new collection illuminates the crisscrossing paths leading to where two 
worlds meet: the worlds of film production and of the academy. It looks 
closely at the push-and-pull of thinking, seeing, writing; technology, 
art, poetics; truth and representation and performance; and suggests 
productive ways of being, doing and making, in an engagingly elegant 
sequence of essays.” (Distinguished Professor Jen Webb, University of 
Canberra, Australia)

“As the possibilities for practice-based research expand both within and 
outside the academy, this exciting new collection introduces us to a 
range of creative and industry-embedded approaches to screen production 
research. Batty and Kerrigan are themselves leading the way in these 
areas and their collection showcases a number of practices, texts and 
methods which will be invaluable and impactful for students and scholars 
alike.” (Dr Bridget Conor, King's College London, UK)

“A timely and relevant contribution to the debate within creative 
practice presented through a series of critical reflections on case 
studies that offer a valid series of alternative research methods to 
those more generally aligned to the social sciences; that screen 
production – and all that this term encompasses – is a form of research. 
Focussing on data drawn from practitioner case studies rather than the 
metrics of the empiricists, what’s here provides a legitimate and 
equally robust alternative to traditional scientific measures of 
citations, bibliometrics, impact factor and ‘H-indices’ demonstrating 
that these are largely irrelevant tools for evaluating the value of 
screen production as research with its inherent ability to generate new 
and potentially transformative knowledge from data drawn from practice.” 
(Professor Paul Egglestone, University of Newcastle, Australia)


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