The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gay, Andrew Kenneth, editor.

Igelstrom, Ann, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Bloomsbury handbooks.

Bloomsbury Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture plays.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

Offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of screenplay theory as applied in the analysis of numerous screenplays from an international, multi-author perspective.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Editors and Contributors

Introduction: In Search of Screenplay Theory

Part One The Screenplay as Narration and Focalization

1 'THE CAMERA IS JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY': Narration and Focalization in Three Texts of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (1997/n.d./2007) Andrew Kenneth Gay, Southern Oregon University (USA)

2 The Hole at the Centre of the Donut: A Question of Focalization and Character Perspective in Knives Out (2019) Ann Igelstrom, Independent Scholar (UK)

3 Writing the Viewer: Narration and Perspective in a Cinematic Virtual Reality Screenplay Kath Dooley, Adelaide University (Australia)

4 Making Sense of Character Perspective in Languages of the 'Big Print': The Case of a Hand Losing Her Body in J'ai perdu mon corps/I Lost My Body (2019) Carina Böhm, Independent Scholar, and Craig Batty, Adelaide University (Australia)

5 Past and Present, Old and New (1929): On Tense, Time and Narrators in Screenwriting Alexandra Ksenofontova, Independent Scholar (Germany)

6 Look at Me: The Child's Gaze as a Culturally Informed Narrative Device in the Danish Screenplay En du elsker/Someone You Love (2014) Cath Moore, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Part Two The Screenplay as Narrative Structure

7 Imposing New Hollywood Structure on the Remake of 3:10 to Yuma (2007) Mads Larsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

8 Community-Centred Screenwriting: The Actualization of Narrative Sovereignty in Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi's Reservation Dogs (2021-3) Jess King, DePaul University (USA), and Michelle Hurtubise, Temple University (USA)

9 Narrative Structure in Mari Okada's Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, Japan (2018) Maxine Gee, University of Salford (UK).

10 Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman (2016) Chris Neilan, Edinburgh Napier University (UK)

11 Time, Narrative and Boyhood (2014) Carolina Amaral, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

12 Time Is Not Relative: A Modern and Postmodern Approach to Time in The Shining (1980) Kerstin Stutterheim, Edinburgh Napier University (UK)

13 Is It or Isn't It? Narrative Ambiguity and Queerness in Barbie (2023) Tracy Mathewson, University College London (UK)

Part Three The Screenplay as Cinematic Language

14 Visual Dramaturgy: From Caligari (1920) to Shutter Island (2010) Kerstin Stutterheim, Edinburgh Napier University (UK)

15 Cinema and the Camera-Eye in Alan Sharp's Screenplay-Novel Hybrid Picture Yourself (n.d.) River Seager, Independent Scholar (UK)

16 Apropos of Editing and Camera Cues: A Comparative Analysis of the Screenplay Texts for Federico Fellini's Le notti di Cabiria/Nights of Cabiria (1957) Claudia Romanelli, The University of Alabama (USA)

17 A Boy and His Watermelons: Mise-en-Scène in Sweet Country (2017) Glenda Hambly, La Trobe University (Australia)

18 Sound Design and Music Proposals in Lucrecia Martel's Screenplay for The Swamp (2001) Iana Cossoy Paro, EICTV International Film School (Cuba)

19 Writing in Waltz Time: Walter Reisch's Musical Writing in Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930) Claus Tieber, Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (Austria)

Part Four The Screenplay as Creative Practice

20 'Such a foreign presence in Hertfordshire': Black Georgian Women Coming into Representation in Misan Sagay's Belle (2009/2012) Claudia Sternberg, University of Leeds (UK)

21 Characterization, Dialogue and Performance in Lawrence Kasdan's Screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Brett Davies, Meiji University (Japan).

22 Maryam's Windows and Marziyeh's Screens: The Self-Fiction at the Processes, Poetics and Authorships of This is not a film (2011) and 3 Faces (2018), by Jafar Panahi Márcio Andrade, Independent Scholar (Brazil)

23 Dorothy Parker: The Creative Genius Behind the Film Franchise A Star Is Born Rosanne Welch, Stephens College (USA)

24 Narrative Strategies in Biopics Based on Scant Historical Evidence: The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) Indranil Chakravarty, Independent Scholar (India)

25 Exploring Characterization and Theme in the Screenwriting Process: The Caseof Gladiator (2000) Carmen Sofía Brenes, Universidad Gabriela Mistral (Chile)

26 A Few Good Men (1992): When Adaptation Captures the Essence of the Original Paolo Braga, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)

27 An Exemplary Adaptation: Sense and Sensibility (1995) Armando Fumagalli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)

Subject Index

Author and Works Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5013-9409-6

1-5013-9407-X

1-5013-9408-8

OCLC:

1583171430