Smashed Typewriters and Sour Smoke: A Historical Poetics of the Screenplay

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dc.contributor.advisorTrifonova, Temenuga D.
dc.creatorVerner, Caroline Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-28T12:42:53Z
dc.date.available2018-05-28T12:42:53Z
dc.date.copyright2017-09-05
dc.date.issued2018-05-28
dc.date.updated2018-05-28T12:42:53Z
dc.degree.disciplineCinema and Media Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractScreenplays typically provide the starting point for film development and production. They also draw on a rich history of literary conventions and aesthetic traditions that well exceed their technical blueprint function, as emergent attention being given to screenplays as reading matter by both casual and scholarly readers suggests. This dissertation proposes a historical poetics of screenwriting as a way of working through these conflicting ideas about the screenplay: what it is, how to read it, and how these concepts have evolved over time. It pursues an intensive analysisfrom the silent era scenario to the present-day master-scene scriptthrough several frames, including the historical implications of discourse for the screenplay concept, the linkages between screenwriting and earlier forms of lens-based prose, narrative voice and the rhetoric of the possible performance, and the closet, made-to-read screenplay as a class of literary fiction. Engaging theoretical traditions of narratology, authorship, and adaptation studies, the research illuminates how to read a screenplay aesthetically, invoking the fictional blueprint metaphor as a new interpretive strategy that views the script as independent and complete, outside any actual production reality.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34465
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectAesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsScreenplay
dc.subject.keywordsScreenwriting
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy of literature
dc.subject.keywordsAdaptation
dc.subject.keywordsAuthorship
dc.subject.keywordsNarratology
dc.titleSmashed Typewriters and Sour Smoke: A Historical Poetics of the Screenplay
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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