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Script culture and the American screenplay / Kevin Alexander Boon.
LIBRA PN1996 .B665 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boon, Kevin Alexander, 1956-
- Series:
- Contemporary approaches to film and television series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture authorship.
- Physical Description:
- x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 Form and Function: The Evolution of the Screenplay 3
- 2 Parallel Forms: The Architecture of Performance 25
- 3 Aristotle, Aesthetics, and Critical Approaches to the Screenplay 45
- Part 2 Critiques
- 4 Dialogue as Action: Discourse, Dialectics, and the Rhetoric of Capitalism in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross 89
- 5 Scripting Gender, Representing Race 115
- 6 The Screenplay Adaptation: Huston, Hammett, and the Thing(s) from Another World 149
- 7 The Original Screenplay and Aesthetic Commerce: Natural Born Killers 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814332634
- 0814332633
- OCLC:
- 156994514
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