A memoir about Dr. Ryszard Piasek – a Poznań filmmaker

Abstract A reflection on the five tasks discussed in this chapter is considered as informative of the filmmaker’s perspectives and decision-making processes, an awar...

This article focuses on the trauma memoir as an identifiable type of creative writing. It begins by tracing its popularity, especially in the 1990s, in the process recognising what...

Abstract This introduction to the Moonlight case studies describes how the film takes its protagonist through three stages of development—boyhood, youth, and early m...

Abstract The three sections of this chapter reveal differing narrative approaches on the part of the filmmaker: accounts of their lives given by nonfictional “charac...

Chapter three examines the historicized women’s life narrative as it migrates into the 21st century, via Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club and television show, to the genres of self-help a...

Abstract The personal narrative, be it autobiography or memoir, tells what it is to live and die in the world. Spiritual memoir adds two further dimensions. First, b...

Abstract This book reveals the filmmaker’s art, principles, methods, and approaches for a range of readers: the student filmmaker; practicing filmmaker; student or s...

Phillip Noyce is one of Australia’s most prominent film makers—a successful feature film director with both iconic Australian narratives and many a Hollywood blockbuster under his ...