Screenwriting

History, Theory and Practice

By: Steven Maras

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Paperback | 1 December 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Drawing on contemporary histories of film and screenwriting, as well as American screenwriting manuals from the 1910s and 1920s, this volume breaks new ground in thinking about the nature of screenwriting and its shape as a particular kind of practice. The author examines such topics as the notion of the script as blueprint, the emergence of the screenplay, and the politics of writing for the screen. Bringing an accessible academic approach to practitioner-oriented discussions of craft, the book provides new perspectives on auteurism, processes of funding, digital technology, and the future of screenwriting. Focusing primarily on American style and practices, this book builds on a wide range of writings by filmmakers and screenwriters and the work of different critics and theorists, including Sergei Eisenstein, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Janet Staiger, and Dudley Nichols. Arguing that the study of film has yet to come to terms with screenwriting and the script, this work will be a vital contribution to debates on film and the critical analysis of screenwriting.

Industry Reviews

An important and long-overdue contribution to the historiography of screenwriting, -- Oscar Michaels * Real Time Arts *
For film scholars and especially film historians, the rigour and attention to detail in the discussion of the history and evolution of screenwriting practice is invaluable. -- Harry Kirchner * Screening the Past *
...offers ways of thinking about the script beyond simply the blueprint version. -- Nina Seja * Media International Australia *
...should prove a seminal text for the study of screenwriting. -- Adam Ganz * Journal of Screenwriting *
If you want to think seriously about screenwriting, you ought to pick this one up. -- Tom Stempel * Slant Magazine *
Steven Maras' achievement is to set out a number of parameters and future signposts for focusing "on less well understood aspects of screen discourse", to raise the bar on informed exchanges that acknowledge these little understood aspects. -- Maryella Hatfield * Global Media Journal *

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