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J. Lawson (1985)
Theory and Technique of Playwriting and Screenwriting
Thomas Schatz (1988)
The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Jeff Rush, C. Baughman (1997)
Portraits of the Postmodern Person in "Taxi Driver,""Raging Bull," and "The King of Comedy.".Journal of Film and Video, 49
[If the numbered continuity had become standardised within the Hollywood of the 1920s, the hasty conversion to sound had resulted in an ad hoc approach to resolving the technical questions confronting the script at a time of rapid industrial change. There is little consistency, at this transitional time, between scripts or often within the same script, regarding such matters as how to present dialogue, where to position the speakers’ names and how, in particular, to overcome the problem that, with intertitles having become obsolete, precisely rendered speech and action now occurred simultaneously. As Staiger remarks, ‘[e]ach studio adapted the old script format differently’.1 This prompted suggestions that the Hollywood studios should collectively introduce an agreed, standard format for the presentation of scripts.]
Published: Nov 12, 2015
Keywords: Scene Text; Silver Coin; Narrative Coherence; Shot Type; Script Format
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