Ethics in Screenwriting

Steven Maras is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Screenwriting: History, Theory, and Practice (2009) and also of Objectivity in Journalism (2013).

“Ethics in Screenwriting brings in the perspective of the responsibility the screenwriter has in their narrative. The great aspect of this book is the perspective from different parts of the world, helping open up the perspective of any screenwriter or film academic. Steven Maras also wraps up everything wonderfully into a great thesis that could be taught in any ethics classes or a screenwriting course, because there is a heavy responsibility in the words of a writer, whether they know it or not.” (Yousif Nash, Journal of Screenwriting, Vol. 11 (2), 2020)

• Preface.Steven Maras.- 1. Ethics Beyond the Code.Steven Maras.Part I Writers and Production Environments.- 2. The Concept of ‘Double Storytelling’ in Danish Public Service TV Drama Production.Eva Novrup Redvall.- 3. Ethics, Style and Story in Indigenous Screenwriting: Warwick Thornton in Interview.Steven Maras.- 4. On Morals, Ethics and Screenwriting: An Interview with Jimmy McGovern.Steven Maras.-Part II Actuality and History.- 5. ANZAC Girls: An Ethical Autoanalysis.Felicity Packard and Ben Stubbs.- 6. The Ethics of Actuality in the Scripting of Enrique Rosas’s The Gray Automobile.María Teresa DePaoli.- 7. Blurring Boundaries, Transmedia Storytelling and the Ethics of C.S. Peirce.Renira Rampazzo Gambarato and Alessandro Nanì.-Part III Character and Narrative.- 8. Doubled Ethics and Narrative Distance in The Wire.Jeff Rush.- 9. Writing From the Mouth of Shadows: Creativity as Ethics in the Screenwriting of Jean-Claude Carrière.Felipe Pruneda Sentíes.- 10. Screenwriting as Dialogic Ethics after Animal Kingdom.Steven Maras.-11. Ethics, Representations and Judgment.Steven Maras.