The heroic nature of the expert presenter: a practitioner's perspective.
In this article I explore the nature of the expert presenter character, in particular the relationship between that character and the person playing the role, and also between that character and the narrative structure of the episodes they present. I use Robert McKee's separation of 'character' and...
| Published in: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 129 - 140 |
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