Analysing the screenplay /

Most producers and directors acknowledge the crucial role of the screenplay, yet the film script has received little academic attention until recently, even though the screenplay has been in existence since the end of the 19th century. "Analysing the Screenplay" highlights the screenplay a...

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Other Authors: Nelmes, Jill, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011
New York : 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jill Nelmes
  • History of the form. Entertaining the public option : the popular film writing movement and the emergence of writing for the American silent cinema / Torey Liepa
  • Screenwriters who shaped the precode woman and their struggle with censorship / Jule Selbo
  • Screenwriting in Britain 1895-1929 / Ian Macdonald
  • Development, craft and process. An impossible Task : scripting The Chilian club / Andrew Spicer
  • Boards, beats, binaries and bricolage : approaches to the animation script / Paul Wells
  • The flexibility of genre : the action-adventure film in 1939 / Ken Dancyger
  • Alternatives to the conventional screenplay form. Let the audience add 2 + 2 and they'll love you forever : the screenplay as a self-teaching system / Adam Ganz
  • The screenplay as prototype / Kathryn Millard
  • A similar sense of time : the collaboration between writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy / JJ Murphy
  • On screenwriting outside the West / Sue Clayton
  • Theoretical and critical approaches . Character in the screenplay text / Steven Price
  • Realism and screenplay dialogue / Jill Nelmes
  • Analysing the screenplay : a comparative approach / Mark O'Thomas
  • Beyond McKee : screenwriting in and out of the academy / Barry Langford