The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for Silent Film 1st ed. Edition Alexandra Ksenofontova

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• ISBN 10: 3030505898
• ISBN 13: 9783030505899
• Author: Alexandra Ksenofontova

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Reconciling the Functional with the Literary

3. Early Script Publications: Make It Look Like “Literature”

4. The French Poetic Screenplay: Surrealism and Other Transformations

5. Silent Screenwriting in Russia: For and Against the Orthodoxy

6. The Weimar Screenplay: “Expressionism” and Literary Adaptations

7. Modernist Screenwriting and the Crisis of Reason

8. Anti-mimetic Screenwriting

9. The Crisis of Language and the Rhythmic Screenplay

10. Conclusion

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