Museum Exhibitions and Suspense - The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1. Suspense: Stories and audiences; Chapter 2. Narrative suspense: Structure and relevance; Chapter 3. Dramatic suspense: Hypotheses and emotions; Chapter 4. Suspense techniques; Chapter 5. Film analyses; Chapter 6. Exhibition analyses; Chapter 7. A thought experiment; Chapter 8. Suspense Revisited: Mild and wild; Conclusion; Outlook: Curators as storytellers

About the author

Ariane Karbe is an independent curator and museum consultant with over 20 years of experience in developing exhibitions. She holds a PhD in museum studies from University of Leicester and trained as a scriptwriter at the Filmschool Hamburg Berlin. Her passion is to use storytelling to make museums more inclusive places.

Summary

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating.

Product details

• Authors: Ariane Karbe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367720438
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72043-8
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, ART / Museum Studies, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Films, cinema, Humanities, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies