New PDF release: Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

By Ian W. Macdonald (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230392296

ISBN-13: 9780230392298

ISBN-10: 1349351911

ISBN-13: 9781349351916

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Gatekeepers range from the young script editor given a pile of unsolicited scripts to sift through, to story editors, consultants, producers, directors, show-runners, directors of photography, editors and others all the way up to executives who control the money and therefore have the power, even if they have little knowledge of the domain. I consider creativity theory further in Chapter 6. The doxa, and the competences associated with it, are validated by the field, and constitute a collective belief in the ‘right’ way of doing things.

His ‘tool kit’, as he points out, fits in within a critical film and media studies tradition, but he is less concerned with finding an authentic reality behind the scenes, than with ‘studying the industry’s own self-representation, selfcritique and self-reflection’ (2008, 5); that is, the way the industry speaks to itself. Caldwell’s model follows Clifford Geertz’s view that ‘the culture of a people is an ensemble of texts, themselves ensembles, which the anthropologist strains to read over the shoulders of those to whom they properly belong’ (Geertz, in Caldwell 2008, 5; Caldwell’s emphasis).

2) A ‘text’ has less (or no) substance and is not classifiable or fixable – it lies ‘behind the limit of the doxa’ (Barthes 1977, 158). It does not represent firm conclusions but plays (around) with possibilities and is therefore plural, rather than a singular view. It can be seen as a network of connections rather than the product of a singular authorial view. The reader ‘plays’ (performs) the text, and so effectively re-writes it. Barthes’ view of the text – that of a place where discourses meet and interact – is seductively close to the screen idea; we may therefore be using the wrong descriptors, in focusing on the screenplay as the Work.

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