Over the next couple of months, we’ll be going through several expansions and revisions. In particular, we are altering the organization of the site. During this time, the site navigation may not make much sense. We apologize for any inconvenience. The new features will be introduced here in depth when they are complete.
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Feb 17
Finding and Choosing Screenplays to Read
I’ve recently updated our resources page and thought now would be a good time to say a bit more about finding and choosing screenplays to read.
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Jan 14
THE KING’S SPEECH by David Seidler also available free at Deadline Hollywood.
Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood is now also offering a free download of David Seidler’s The King’s Speech script. Look for it here.
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Jan 13
Aaron Sorkin’s THE SOCIAL NETWORK available free at Deadline Hollywood
Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood website is offering a free download of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network script, along with a Q & A with Sorkin. Look for it here.
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Jan 12
Welcome UCF Script Analysis Students!
This semester, I will be using Screenplayology as the “textbook” for two sections of FIL2107 – Script Analysis at the University of Central Florida, and I want to welcome all of those students now.
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Jan 06
Why Screenplayology?
Welcome to Screenplayology: An Online Study for American Screenplay Studies. As a graduate student in 2006, I was charged by my chair with the task of re-developing and teaching an existing course in the curriculum called Script Analysis. Wishing to bring a new level of academic rigor and scholarship to the course, I sought scholarly …
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3.6. camera & cuts
I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker.” — Paul Schrader1 3.6.1. Overview. If all other observations about the screenplay are open to debate, one is not: every screenplay is written for the camera. As Howard Rodman has argued, “Screenplays are, to use James Schamus’s fine phrase, ‘brutally instrumentalist.’ …
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3.3. methods of screenplay exposition
The script and the film are always ‘establishing’ something. Now, don’t you go ‘establishing’ things.” — David Mamet 1 With today’s stress on fast-moving action, some practitioners seem to have decided that exposition is innately bad and should be minimized.” — Kristin Thompson 2 3.3.1. Overview. Only Kristin Thompson knows if she had David Mamet …
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glossary
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Footnotes Act — …
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1. screenplay style & use
The screenplay: a tiny pitless and pitiful acorn from which, oftentimes, nothing grows. A thin, slippery creature, three holes, two brads, impossible to read in the tub.” – Nathaniel Kohn1 Overview. For those who’ve never read a screenplay before (particularly a real shooting script), picking one up for the first time can be a daunting, …
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