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E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting

Ksenofontova The Modernist Screenplay

Experimental Writing for Silent Film

E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting

ISBN: 978-3-030-50589-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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The Modernist Screenplay
explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France, Germany, and Russia. At the same time, the book considers how the screenplay responded to the modernist crisis of reason, confronted mimetic representation, and sought to overcome the modernist mistrust of language with the help of rhythm. From the silent film projects of Bertolt Brecht, to the screenwriting of Sergei Eisenstein and the poetic scripts of the surrealists,
The Modernist Screenplay
offers a new angle on the relationship between film and literature. Based on the example of modernist screenwriting, the book proposes a pluralistic approach to screenplays, an approach that sees film scripts both as texts embedded in film production and as literary works in their own right. As a result, the sheer variety of different and experimental ways to tell stories in screenplayscomes to light.
The Modernist Screenplay
explores how the earliest kind of experimental screenplays—the modernist screenplays—challenged normative ideas about the nature of filmmaking, the nature of literary writing, and the borders between the two.
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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.


Alexandra Ksenofontova completed her PhD in comparative literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She is the co-founder of the German screenwriting research network
Drehbuchforschung
, member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Screenwriting
,

and the Early Career Representative on the Executive Council of the international Screenwriting Research Network.


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