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The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies

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Editors:
  1. Rosamund Davies

    1. School of Stage and Screen, University of Greenwich, London, UK

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  2. Paolo Russo

    1. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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  3. Claus Tieber

    1. Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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  • Represents state of the art screenwriting research
  • Provides a starting point as well as in-depth findings
  • Demonstrates a range of methods and context of screenwriting studies

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
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  2. Introduction

    • Rosamund Davies, Paolo Russo, Claus Tieber
    Pages 1-17

  3. What Screenwriting Ontology: Defining the Screenplay and Screenwriting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. How to Think About Screenwriting

      • Ian W. Macdonald
      Pages 21-43

    3. Screenplectics: Screenwriting as a Complex Adaptive System

      • Paolo Russo
      Pages 45-71

    4. Collaboration, Cooperation and Authorship in Screenwriting aka How Many People Does It Take to Create an Author?

      • Rosamund Davies
      Pages 73-92

    5. Acts of Reading: The Demands on Screenplay Reading

      • Rita Benis
      Pages 93-109

    6. The Reality of (Screen) Characters

      • Murray Smith
      Pages 111-130

    7. “We Come to Realize”: Screenwriting and Representations of Time

      • Adam Ganz
      Pages 131-150

    8. The Motion Picture Screenplay as Data: Quantifying the Stylistic Differences Between Dialogue and Scene Text

      • Warren Buckland
      Pages 151-166

    9. Writer/Reader as Performer: Creating a Negotiated Narrative

      • Anna Zaluczkowska
      Pages 167-188

    10. An Ontology of the Interactive Script

      • Rafael Leal
      Pages 189-204

  4. When/Where Screenwriting Historiography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Historiographies of Screenwriting

      • Steven Price
      Pages 207-223

    3. They Actually Had Scripts in Silent Films? Researching Screenwriting in the Silent Era

      • Tom Stempel
      Pages 225-236

    4. Silent Screenwriting in Europe: Discourses on Authorship, Form, and Literature

      • Alexandra Ksenofontova
      Pages 237-257

    5. When Women Wrote Hollywood: How Early Female Screenwriters Disappeared from the History of the Industry They Created. A Case Study of Four Female Screenwriters

      • Rosanne Welch
      Pages 259-275

    6. Narrating with Music: Screenwriting Musical Numbers

      • Claus Tieber
      Pages 277-294

    7. Women Screenwriters of Early Sinophone Cinema: 1916–1949

      • S. Louisa Wei
      Pages 295-313

    8. A Historiography of Japanese Screenwriting

      • Lauri Kitsnik
      Pages 315-332
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About this book

This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and established screenwriting scholars. It covers topics and concepts central to the study of screenwriting and the screenplay in relation to film, television, web series, animation, games and other interactive media, and includes a range of approaches, from theoretical perspectives to in-depth case studies. 44 scholars from around the globe demonstrate the range and depths of this new and expanding area of study. As the chapters of this Handbook demonstrate, shifting the focus from the finished film to the process of screenwriting and the text of the screenplay facilitates valuable new insights. This Handbook is the first of its kind, an indispensable compendium for both academics and practitioners.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Stage and Screen, University of Greenwich, London, UK

    Rosamund Davies

  • Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Paolo Russo

  • Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Claus Tieber

About the editors

Rosamund Davies has a background of professional practice in the screen industries and is Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, UK.

Paolo Russo is Senior Lecturer in Film at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a former Chairperson of the Screenwriting Research Network. He is also a professional screenwriter.

Claus Tieber teaches Film Studies at universities in Vienna, Brno, Kiel, and Salamanca and is a former Chairperson of the Screenwriting Research Network.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies

  • Editors: Rosamund Davies, Paolo Russo, Claus Tieber

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20769-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20768-6Published: 28 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20771-6Due: 28 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20769-3Published: 27 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLI, 818

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Screenwriting, Film/TV Industry, Film Theory

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