The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism

by Steven Price

Overview

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to criticism and original studies of individual texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230223622
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/20/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

STEVEN PRICE teaches English and American Literature and Film at Bangor University, Wales, UK. He is the author of The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet, and (with William Tydeman) Oscar Wilde: Salome.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgements xv

1 Authorship 1

2 From Work to Text 24

3 Ontology of the Screenplay 43

4 Stages in Screenplay Development 63

5 The Birds 74

6 Editing and Publication 94

7 The Scene Text 112

8 The Dialogue Text 135

Epilogue: Sunset Boulevard 167

Appendix 171

Notes 185

Select Bibliography 198

Index 204

Editorial Reviews

'Steve Price explores a wide array of issues associated with movie scripts in this thorough-going study. [...] Essentially a thoughtful, well-researched examination of a too-little-studied literary form.' - Virginia Wright Wexman, Review of English Studies

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