The modernist screenplay : experimental writing for the silent film

The modernist screenplay : experimental writing for the silent film / Alexandra Ksenofontova.

The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France, Germany, and Russia. At the same time, the book considers how the screenplay responded to the modernist c...

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Main Author: Ksenofontova, Alexandra (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Palgrave studies in screenwriting.
Subjects:
Motion picture plays > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Silent films.
Motion picture plays
Silent films
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introducing the experimental screenplay
  • 2. The screenplay between pragmatic and aesthetic functions
  • 3. Pre-War screenwriting: Fist publications, first experiments
  • 4. Interwar screenwriting in France: Scenario-poems, surrealism, and self-reflexivity
  • 5. The screenplay after the Russian Revolution: For and against "facticity"
  • 6. "Expressionist" screenwriting and the "ennoblement" of Weimar cinema
  • 7. Modernist screenwriting against the crisis of reason
  • 8. Representing despite the crisis of representation: The fallacies of modernist screenwriting
  • 9. Rhythmic screenplays: Beyond dualisms
  • 10. Conclusion. Techniques and functions of experimental screenwriting.

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