Analysing the screenplay

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Author:

Nelmes, Jill, 1954-

ISBN:

9780415556330

9780415556347

9780203843383

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

Subject Term:

Motion picture authorship.

Motion picture plays -- Technique.

Added Author:

Nelmes, Jill, 1954-

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Summary

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 as an important form in itself, as opposed to merely being the first stage of the production process. It explores a number of possible approaches to studying the screenplay, considering the depth and breadth of the subject area, including:

the history and early development of the screenplay in the United States, France and Britain the process of screenplay writing and its peculiar relationship to film production the assumption that the screenplay is standardised in form and certain stories or styles are universal the range of writing outside the mainstream, from independent film to story ideas in Bhutanese film production to animation possible critical approaches to analysing the screenplay.

Analysing the Screenplay is a comprehensive anthology, offering a global selection of contributions from internationally renowned, specialist authors. Together they provide readers with an insight into this fascinating yet complex written form.

This anthology will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Film Studies courses, particularly those on scriptwriting.

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