The Screenplay Authorship, Theory and Criticism

by Price, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780230223622
• ISBN10: 0230223621
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In one of the first serious critical and theoretical studies of the screenplay, Steven Price looks at theories of authorship, modes of textual production and the formal elements of screenwriting, taking the reader on a lively and engaging journey through a relatively underexplored genre.

Author Biography

STEVEN PRICE is Lecturer in English at Bangor University, UK. He is co-author of a book-length study of Oscar Wilde's Salome (1996) and author of The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He is also editor of The David Mamet Review.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Authorship	p. 1
From Work to Text	p. 24
Ontology of the Screenplay	p. 43
Stages in Screenplay Development	p. 63
The Birds	p. 74
Editing and Publication	p. 94
The Scene Text	p. 112
The Dialogue Text	p. 135
Epilogue: Sunset Boulevard	p. 167
Appendix	p. 171
Notes	p. 185
Select Bibliography	p. 198
Index	p. 204
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