Description
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the overlooked category of screenwriters in French cinema, from the coming of sound to the digital age. Using key figures as case studies, it considers how the role has evolved industrially and critically, and sheds light on screenwriting practices in the context of debates on word and image, national cinema and authorship.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Charles Spaak: dramaturge and mauvais esprit
2 Jacques Prévert: from reluctant author to screenwriter as myth
3 Henri Jeanson: spectacular dialogue
4 Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost: writing the ‘tradition of quality’
5 The screenwriter sacrificed? The ‘screenplays’ of the New Wave auteurs
6 Le cinéma du samedi soir: Michel Audiard’s screenplays and cult dialogue
7 Screenwriting trends in popular comedy
8 Dialogue writing in multicultural France since 2000: exploring the words of young people
9 Réalisa(c)trices screenwriting the self: Noémie Lvovsky, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Maïwenn
Conclusion
Index
