A History of the Screenplay

by Steven Price

Book Overview

Today's Hollywood screenplays have a uniform appearance, but it has not always been this way. The earliest film writing used theatrical plays and prose fiction as models, and the silent cinemas of Germany, Russia and the United States all developed their own traditions, culminating in the unique 'screen poetry' of Carl Mayer. Hollywood studios adapted to writing for sound in different ways, while European author-directors such as Ingmar Bergman made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230291813
• ISBN13: 9780230291812
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"