The Modernist Screenplay: Experimental Writing for Silent Film (Hardcover, 2020)

1. Introducing the experimental screenplay.- 2. The screenplay between pragmatic and aesthetic functions.- 3. Pre-War screenwriting: Fist publications, first experiments.- 4. Interwar screenwriting in France: Scenario-poems, surrealism, and self-reflexivity.- 5. The screenplay after the Russian Revolution: For and against “facticity”.- 6. “Expressionist” screenwriting and the “ennoblement” of Weimar cinema.- 7. Modernist screenwriting against the crisis of reason.- 8. Representing despite the crisis of representation: The fallacies of modernist screenwriting.- 9. Rhythmic screenplays: Beyond dualisms.- 10. Conclusion. Techniques and functions of experimental screenwriting.