Resource type
Thesis type
(Project) M.A.L.S.
Date created
2020-12-14
Authors/Contributors
Author: McMahon, Michele
Abstract
"Treading Water: An Exploration of Grief and Surviving Suicide" is an original feature length screenplay called "Treading Water" that explores grief, specifically how a person survives the death of a loved one by suicide. This screenplay examines a predominant narrative device in literature that uses suicide for the character and the author to end the story in a dramatic conclusion. This often leaves little or no time to explore the grief of those left behind. The story in this screenplay deconstructs the conventions of a tragic suicide love story where the protagonist commits suicide over a broken heart; and instead begins the story with the survivor, broken-hearted, and grieving over their lover who has killed themselves by suicide. Graduate Liberal Studies (GLS) influences on this screenplay are discussed in the preceding Statement of Intent.
Document
Identifier
etd21200
Copyright statement
Copyright is held by the author(s).
Supervisor or Senior Supervisor
Thesis advisor: Colby, Sasha
Language
English
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