Description
Though the history of the screenplay is as long and rich as the history of film itself, critics and scholars have neglected it as a topic of serious research. Script Culture and the American Screenplay treats the screenplay as a literary work in its own right, presenting analyses of screenplays from a variety of frameworks, including feminism, Marxism, structuralism, philosophy, and psychology.
Script Culture and the American Screenplay undertakes a worthy endeavor in arguing the literary value of quality screenplays while recognizing all the problems associated with locating and identifying actual shooting scripts as opposed to earlier draft versions, much less film transcriptions. - Jack Boozer, professor of communication at Georgia State University
Kevin Alexander Boon is associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto.