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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483195903321

Autore

Ksenofontova Alexandra

Titolo

The Modernist Screenplay : Experimental Writing for Silent Film / / by Alexandra Ksenofontova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030505899

3030505898

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 241 p. 8 illus., 3 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting, , 2731-4499

Disciplina

791.4375

301

Soggetti

Experimental films

Motion picture authorship

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Experimental Film

Screenwriting

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introducing the experimental screenplay -- 2. The screenplay between pragmatic and aesthetic functions -- 3. Pre-War screenwriting: Fist publications, first experiments -- 4. Interwar screenwriting in France: Scenario-poems, surrealism, and self-reflexivity -- 5. The screenplay after the Russian Revolution: For and against "facticity" -- 6. "Expressionist" screenwriting and the "ennoblement" of Weimar cinema -- 7. Modernist screenwriting against the crisis of reason -- 8. Representing despite the crisis of representation: The fallacies of modernist screenwriting -- 9. Rhythmic screenplays: Beyond dualisms -- 10. Conclusion. Techniques and functions of experimental screenwriting.

Sommario/riassunto

The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France, Germany, and Russia. At the same time, the book considers how the screenplay



responded to the modernist crisis of reason, confronted mimetic representation, and sought to overcome the modernist mistrust of language with the help of rhythm. From the silent film projects of Bertolt Brecht, to the screenwriting of Sergei Eisenstein and the poetic scripts of the surrealists, The Modernist Screenplay offers a new angle on the relationship between film and literature. Based on the example of modernist screenwriting, the book proposes a pluralistic approach to screenplays, an approach that sees film scripts both as texts embedded in film production and as literary works in their own right. As a result, the sheer variety of different and experimental ways to tell stories in screenplayscomes to light. The Modernist Screenplay explores how the earliest kind of experimental screenplays-the modernist screenplays-challenged normative ideas about the nature of filmmaking, the nature of literary writing, and the borders between the two. .