Analysing the Screenplay.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelmes, Jill
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Subjects:
Motion picture authorship.
Motion picture plays > Technique.
Motion picture authorship
Motion picture plays > Technique
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 History of the form; Chapter 2 Entertaining the public option: The popular film writing movement and the emergence of writing for the American silent cinema; Chapter 3 Screenwriters who shaped the Pre-Code woman and their struggle with censorship; Chapter 4 Screenwriting in Britain 18951929; Part II Development, craft and process; Chapter 5 An impossible task?: Scripting The Chilian Club; Chapter 6 Boards, beats, binaries and bricolage: Approaches to the animation script.
  • Chapter 7 The flexibility of genre: The action-adventure film in 1939Part III Alternatives to the conventional screenplay form; Chapter 8 'Let the audience add up two plus two. They'll love you forever.': The screenplay as a self-teaching system; Chapter 9 The screenplay as prototype; Chapter 10 A similar sense of time: The collaboration between writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy.

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