Analysing the screenplay
By: edited by Jill Nelmes.
Contributors: Nelmes, Jill, 1954-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415556330; 9780415556347; 9780203843383
Subjects: Motion picture authorship; Motion picture plays -- Technique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jill Nelmes; title: 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; title: Screenwriters who shaped the precode woman and their struggle with censorship / Jule Selbo; title: Screenwriting in Britain 1895-1929 / Ian Macdonald; title: Development, craft and process. An impossible Task :  scripting The Chilian club / Andrew Spicer; title: Boards, beats, binaries and bricolage : approaches to the animation script / Paul Wells; title: The flexibility of genre : the action-adventure film in 1939 / Ken Dancyger; title: 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; title: The screenplay as prototype / Kathryn Millard; title: A similar sense of time : the collaboration between writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy / JJ Murphy; title: On screenwriting outside the West / Sue Clayton; title: Theoretical and critical approaches . Character in the screenplay text / Steven Price; title: Realism and screenplay dialogue / Jill Nelmes; title: Analysing the screenplay : a comparative approach / Mark O'Thomas; title: Beyond McKee : screenwriting in and out of the academy / Barry Langford.