In one of the first serious critical and theoretical studies of the screenplay, Steven Price looks at theories of authorship, modes of textual production and the formal elements of screenwriting, taki
Today's Hollywood screenplays have a uniform appearance, but it has not always been this way. The earliest film writing used theatrical plays and prose fiction as models, and the silent cinemas of Ger
A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminalLondon, 1885. Three years before the Whitechapel killings, London is a city of fog and darkness. A severed head is dredg
Like Colm Tóibín’s The Master or Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a novel about art and writing in the life of one of the greatsSet in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of t
