Screenplay - Verbal Text and Anticipation of a Film
An analysis of a probe into the style of the script in Czech film of the 1950s-1980s. Although the study is limited by a small and arbitrarily assembled sample, it is evident that serial textual analysis of Czech screenplays can provide crucial insights into the transformations of genre-specific elements such as verbal evocation of visual characteristics, linguistic devices that have no cinematic equivalent, or anticipation of the film recipient's perspective. The author suggests that the frequency and function of these elements have changed in distinct historical stages, and thus we can speak of a specific history of the style of the Czech screenplay, not reducible to the history of film narrative in the ordinary sense.
Keywords: screenwriting, literary script; technical script, film theory, language and film, film language, film science and research
Published: December 1, 2014 Show citation
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