RESEARCH DETAILS
DEPT/SUBJECT AREA: Creative Writing (Screenwriting, Science Fiction)
SUPERVISORS: Dr Alan Bilton and Prof David Britton
RESEARCH DEGREE: PhD Creative Writing Research Science-Fiction Screenwriting
THESIS TITLE: Oer, Developing Her Voice: A Heroine’s Journey to Literary Individuation through Speculative Fiction
RESEARCH SYNOPSIS
Oer Developing Her Voice consists of a feature film speculative fiction screenplay and other science fiction shorts works (stage play, short film script and produced short films) accompanied by a critical commentary examining and relating researcher-screenwriter creative practice to the literary individuation process. The original science fiction works include a feature-length screenplay and two short film scripts. The work postulates that author voice development is a reflection of creative writing principium individuationis, that emergement of Jung’s ‘totality of all psychic processes’, and a natural evolution of ego advancement.
In the female screenwriter, this Jungian evolution of the ‘self’ involves shadow integration of disowned aspects of being and cultivation of the animus or ‘soul-image’ emergence and ultimately leads the screenwriter to artistic wholeness. The creative practice research analysis comments on the author’s monomyth or journey to voice and literary individuation or creative potential fulfilment within the conceptual frameworks of human evolution, childhood development, and advancement of the individual female psyche and personality.
The commentary proposes that voice development directly relates to critical issues of attachment and identity and that an adult creative may cultivate the literary individuation process. Additionally, the text demonstrates that narrative elements organically embedded within the sci-fi screenplays, including story structure, plot, theme, character, landscape, and symbols, are pertinent to and mirror the screenwriter researcher’s heroine’s journey toward psyche integration and literary individuation.
Conference Papers
Rose, H (2020, September). The Blank Page as Alien: Overcoming Writer’s Block, the Psyche Monster in the House, to Cultivate Writing Flow. Paper presented at College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Rose, H (2018, August). Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films Will Promote Mars Colonization Reality. Paper presented at Mars & the Space Revolution, The 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, Pasadena, CA.
Rose, H (2018, September). Total Recall and the Heroine’s Journey: Accessing Memory to Rewrite Personal Narrative and Cultivate Creative Voice. Paper presented at College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Select Publications and Film Screenings
‘Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films Will Promote Mars Colonization Reality’, journal article in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction, ed. by Stuart Clark (London: Head of Zeus Publishing, November 2022)
‘Luminous Bardess Earth to Sun Energies Awaken’, poem in Land of Change: Stories of Struggle and Solidarity from Wales, ed by Gemma June Howell (Newcastle: Culture Matters, May 2022)
“23 Species from 19 States lost to extinction,” In Parentheses, poem (Winter 2022)
Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd, Wales International Film Festival 2021, Winner Jury’s Award Special Prize Illustrated Poem, short film (September 2021)
Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd, Tofu Ink Arts Press, poem + short film (Summer 2021)
Waking Up Wild + Snow, Tofu Ink Arts Press, creative nonfiction (Spring 2021)
Compost Speak and the untitled work after, text collages by Marianne Tuckman M.Phil Creative Writing postgraduate at Swansea University, include excerpts of my poem Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gsegredig, Cymru (which features a line of And Death Shall Have No Dominion by esteemed poet Dylan Thomas) (n.d.)
Oer, straight 8 says hello bristol, The Cube Microplex, Bristol, England, UK, Super 8 short film (2018)
Oer*, Cinema & Co., Swansea, Wales, UK, digital, experimental animated short film (2018)
Sleep Disturbance, The Cube Microplex, Bristol, England, UK, Super 8 film short film (2018)
Sleep Disturbance, Rough Diamonds+, Taliesin Create Space, Swansea, Wales, UK reading, excerpt stage play (2018)
AN EXAMINATION OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE STORY DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SCREENWRITERS: In the Context of Creativity and Hemispheres of the Human Brain (2003)
researchgate.net DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26808.14089