Spengler's List: Screenwriting, the Wilderness and the Civilising Death of the Arts

Date

1994

Authors

Cameron, Evan Wm.

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Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society

Abstract

A lament upon the dying of the art of screenwriting, alongside the other 'liberal arts', provoked by the pondering of two texts: Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and John Livingston's The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation.

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Keywords

8 1/2, Aesthetics, Autobiography, Beardsley, Monroe, Daniel, Frank, Descartes, René, Dickie, George, Exhibition and Distribution of Movies, Fellini, Federico, Filmmaking, Goodman, Nelson, Hegel, G. F. W., History, Kant, Immanuel, Khomeini, Ruhollah [Ayatollah], LA STRADA, Livingston, John, McLuhan, Marshall, Meyrowitz, Joshua, National Socialism, Philosophy, Philosophy, History of, Postman, Neil, Rushdie, Salmon, Screenwriting, Screenwriting, History of, Spengler, Oswald, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Cameron, Evan

Citation

The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 24(2), 174–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.1994.9941766