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A Philosophy of the Screenplay

A Philosophy of the Screenplay

Nannicelli, Ted

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismFilm & Video Art

ISBN10: 0415521440
ISBN13: 9780415521444
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2012
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines-including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies-have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the screenplay: What is a screenplay? Is the screenplay art-more specifically, literature? What kind of a thing is a screenplay? Nannicelli argues that the screenplay is a kind of artefact; as such, its boundaries are determined collectively by screenwriters, and its ontological nature is determined collectively by both writers and readers of screenplays. Any plausible philosophical account of the screenplay must be strictly constrained by our collective creative and appreciative practices, and must recognize that those practices indicate that at least some screenplays are artworks.

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