The Modernist Screenplay : Experimental Writing for Silent Film /: Experimental Writing for Silent Film. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexandra Ksenofontova.
• Authors: Ksenofontova, Alexandra
• Contents: 1. Introducing the experimental screenplay.- 2. The screenplay between pragmatic and aesthetic functions.- 3. Pre-War screenwriting: Fist publications, first experiments.- 4. Interwar screenwriting in France: Scenario-poems, surrealism, and self-reflexivity.- 5. The screenplay after the Russian Revolution: For and against 'facticity'.- 6. 'Expressionist' screenwriting and the 'ennoblement' of Weimar cinema.- 7. Modernist screenwriting against the crisis of reason.- 8. Representing despite the crisis of representation: The fallacies of modernist screenwriting.- 9. Rhythmic screenplays: Beyond dualisms.- 10. Conclusion. Techniques and functions of experimental screenwriting.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (241 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Literature, Modern--19th century; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- Screenwriting; Film scripts & screenplays; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Art -- Film & Video; Film: styles & genres; Experimental films; Motion picture authorship
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030505899
• Related ISBNs: 9783030505882
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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