Steven Price

The Screenplay

Authorship, Theory and Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22361-5
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9780230223615
• ISBN-10: 0230223613
• Artikelnr.: 28240676

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Authorship From Work to Text Ontology of the Screenplay Stages in Screenplay Development The Birds Editing and Publication The Scene Text The Dialogue Text Epilogue: Sunset Boulevard Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'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