[Commlist] New book: The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for Silent Film

*New book: The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for Silent Film*

By Alexandra Ksenofontova

We are delighted to announce that the latest book in the Palgrave 
Studies in Screenwriting series,/The Modernist Screenplay/by Alexandra 
Ksenofontova, is now published.

The book 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 screenplays comes 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.

Table of content:

·Introduction

·Reconciling the Functional with the Literary

·Early Script Publications: Make It Look Like “Literature”

·The French Poetic Screenplay: Surrealism and Other Transformations

·Silent Screenwriting in Russia: For and Against the Orthodoxy

The Weimar Screenplay: “Expressionism” and Literary Adaptations

Modernist Screenwriting and the Crisis of Reason

Anti-mimetic Screenwriting

The Crisis of Language and the Rhythmic Screenplay

Conclusion

For more on the book:https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030505882

For more on Palgrave Studies in 
Screenwriting:https://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14590

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