Script Culture and the American Screenplay

by Kevin Alexander Boon

Though the history of the screenplay is as long and rich as the history of film itself, critics and scholars have neglected it as a topic of serious research. Script Culture and the American Screenplay treats the screenplay as a literary work in its own right, presenting analyses of screenplays from a variety of frameworks, including feminism, Marxism, structuralism, philosophy, and psychology. In distancing the text of screenplays from the on-screen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332633
• ISBN13: 9780814332634
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"