University Textbooks; Research and Writting

University Textbooks; Research and Writting

Content analysis of screenwriting books: psychological review of morbid personality components

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
sima rasouli 1
Ghazal Zandkarimi 2
farshad asgarikia 3
1 Master's degree, Department of Psychology, Refah University College, Tehran, Iran. .
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Refah University College, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema, Soura College, Tehran, Iran.
10.30487/rwab.2024.2010197.1578
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to extract, criticize and evaluate the mentioned and unmentioned components of the pathological personality in script writing training books based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition. The research method was of qualitative type with object content analysis technique and Shannon with conventional approach. In this research, the books Story, Structure, Style and Principles of Screenwriting written by Robert McKee, How to Write a Screenplay written by Sidfield and Screenwriter's Guide written by Sidfield were considered as examples of educational books in this field. The results indicated that data extraction included two theoretical codes of personality stability and personality emergence. In relation to the theoretical code of personality stability, the core codes of trait stability and genetic stability were extracted. In relation to the theoretical code of personality emergence, which includes pathological personality, the core codes of lack of impulse control, impaired interpersonal functioning, impaired emotion, impaired cognition, superficial and unpredictable attractiveness were extracted. The findings showed that there are codes of traits pattern, inflexible cognitive pattern, inflexible emotional pattern, inflexible impulse control and inflexible interpersonal functioning based on DSM-5 in script writing books, and at the same time, there are codes of different cultural patterns and patterns Biology based on DSM-5 are not available in the books and they have not been considered in the characterization.
Keywords
: Content analysis
Pathological personality
Personality components
Scriptwriting
Theorical codes

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