Review
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With the rapid growth in rtunities to work
in the creative industries, there is a need for books that
clearly outline the key issues. With a book rich with case
studies and definitional materials, Davies and Sigthorsson have
admirably met this challenge.
Professor Terry Flew
Queensland University of Technology
Full, fresh and fun, but also hard work - absorbing, detailed
and ambitious. That′s the creative industries, and also this
book. It suits what it studies, showing how human creativity,
meaningfulness and experience are organised at industrial scale.
ed squarely at those who will be the workforce and
wealth-creators of the future, this is the go-to guide for
understanding a complex and varied market.
John Hartley
Curtin University, Australia, and Cardiff University, Wales
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About the Author
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Rosamund Davies has a background in professional practice in the
film and television industries, in which she worked with both
independent production companies and public funding bodies. As
script editor and story consultant for Film London, she oversaw
the development of around 100 projects.
Rosamund has been a lecturer in creative and media writing at the
University of Greenwich since 2001, founding and expanding the
university′s screenwriting provision. She also developed the
Working in the Media and Creative Industries course, which became
the basis for the book Introducing the Creative Industries: From
Theory to Practice (SAGE, 2012), which she co-authored with
colleague Gauti Sigthorsson.
Rosamund is a member of the International Screenwriting Research
Group and sits on the Programme Committee of the Adaptive
Hypertext and Narrative Connections track for ACM Hypertext. Her
publications include articles and book chapters on screenwriting,
hypertext and online video. Her article Narrating the Archive and
Archiving Narrative: the Logic of the Index in International
Journal of the Book, 5 (2008), was awarded the International
Award for Excellence for the top ranked article in 2008. As an
original member of the International Screenwriting Research
Group, she has been active in the development of this new area of
research and her article Screenwriting Strategies in Marguerite
Duras′s script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1960), was selected for
inclusion in the first volume of the Journal of
Screenwriting (2010) and identified as an example of innovation
in screenwriting research (Koivumäki, M.R, 2011).
In her recent media practice, Rosamund has explored the
intersection between narrative and archive as cultural forms and
transmedia storytelling approaches to dramatic narrative. As
co-investigator on the interdisciplinary research project PATINA
(Personal Architectonics Through Interaction with Artefacts),
funded by the RCUK Digital Economy programme, Rosamund has
brought narrative enquiry to the context of designing effective
research spaces, collaborating with colleagues in computer
science, human computer interaction, archeology and architecture
at the universities of Southampton, Bristol, Brighton, Newcastle
and Swansea. She is currently collaborating on further
interdisciplinary research projects with colleagues from computer
science and archeology at the University of Southampton and Kings
College London.
Dr Gauti Sigthorsson is Principal Lecturer in Architecture and
Programme Leader for the BA and MA in Media & Communication at
the University of Greenwich.
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