Re: Is a script Literature?
I'll plead: -
semper in dubiis benigniora praeferenda
[In doubtful matters the more liberal construction should always be preferred]
There's a fairly healthy trade now in screenplay literature that is at least 20 years old. Faber & Faber produce a fairly broad range of screenplays, comprising of classics, cult, indie and the latest popular releases; the range also seems to recognise that certain writers deserve special attention, Tony Gilroy, Charlie Kaufman, to name only two, are in there. Harold Pinter of course.
It would be interesting to see if one day, alongside Shakespeare, the classics, poetry, a screenplay ever ends up on the curriculum. Not to be trendy, or as part of any dead authors argument, but because we are in a world which is dominated by the media. It's a form of expression. A small sample perhaps.
I'll plead: -
semper in dubiis benigniora praeferenda
[In doubtful matters the more liberal construction should always be preferred]
There's a fairly healthy trade now in screenplay literature that is at least 20 years old. Faber & Faber produce a fairly broad range of screenplays, comprising of classics, cult, indie and the latest popular releases; the range also seems to recognise that certain writers deserve special attention, Tony Gilroy, Charlie Kaufman, to name only two, are in there. Harold Pinter of course.
It would be interesting to see if one day, alongside Shakespeare, the classics, poetry, a screenplay ever ends up on the curriculum. Not to be trendy, or as part of any dead authors argument, but because we are in a world which is dominated by the media. It's a form of expression. A small sample perhaps.
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